Thanks Christopher. I already know the Simple method for changing teh
pitch of a note. Sadly, when you want to run through a whole passage
changing pitches, it's much,much slower than the Simple repitch tool.
Using the repitch tool, all you need to do is play the passage on the
MIDI keyboard. Using the Simple tool you have three actions for each
note: hold note, hit Enter, hit right arrow.
I'll send a message to MakeMusic.
On 7 Jan 2008, at 21:36, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Jan 7, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Michael Cook wrote:
The repitch tool on the Simple palette is a useful time saver. I
just discovered that it doesn't take grace notes into account. Is
this a bug, or just bad design?
I'm transcribing a long passage which consists entirely of
staccato eighth notes, each eighth note being preceded by an
acciacatura. I thought that this would be an efficient way to do it:
- Write one measure full of eighth notes preceded by grace notes.
- Copy it the required number of times.
- Run through the passage with the repitch tool.
This doesn't work since only the pitches of the eighth notes get
changed, not the pitches of the grace notes. Does anybody have
another idea for a fast way to trancribe such a passage?
It's probably bad design, but I'm biased. 8-)
In Speedy, hold the MIDI key down for the pitch you want, and hit
Enter (on the numeric keypad on a Mac, might be Return on a PC).
The note under the Speedy cursor will change to the pitch(es) you
are holding, and it works on grace notes. Use the right arrow to
navigate to the next note.
Unfortunately, this method is not intelligent enough to skip rests
or change tied notes both at once, and in fact you will lose ties,
so you have to hit = after changing the pitch to restore any ties
before you move on. It also needs a MIDI keyboard. You will also
find this method at least twice as keystroke-intensive as the
Simple repitch, so you will have to balance out the trouble
involved...
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