Richard Shann <rich...@rshann.plus.com> writes: > On Sat, 2017-01-07 at 16:27 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: >> Richard Shann <rich...@rshann.plus.com> writes: >> [...] doesn't cover chord entry - I used to use the >> > sustain pedal to indicate that the notes played should all be in one >> > chord, but now I hold down the Alt key - you can do either in Denemo. >> > The problem with depending on the timing of the ons and offs is that >> > played musically notes which are intended to be sequential can often not >> > be so, quite - not a problem I guess if you are playing in slowly, >> > changing the duration each time it alters. >> >> You know, if Frescobaldi development weren't apparently dead > > Oh, dear. I was going to add that the nice soundsfromsounds video guide > also failed to draw attention the the "All sharps" or "All flats" > limitation. It presumably means that a piece with F-sharp and B-flat in > it would require you to stop off and click on a button when they > alternated.
A basic scale that is only modified upwards works well. It turns out that for the key of C major/A minor, the Bb major scale works well as a "floor", transliterating keys adjacent to C major and A minor and doing a reasonable job with harmonic minor as well. Of course, one should be able to pin the entry key, and it might be desirable to make ascending/descending patterns behave differently. But for pitches "as such" and chord progressions focused around the central key, this scheme works reasonably well. >> (no more commits in the repository since October 1 and submitted >> trivial patches get dropped on the floor), it would be worthwhile to >> make Frescobaldi decide "chord-or-not" based on the overlap in >> duration. > > I think you could be right - I have so little need for chord entry that > it has been rather neglected. "No more commits" in all of Frescobaldi. And my never applied patch fixes Frescobaldi being confused about Midi channel numbers (0-15 in the messages correspond to human-readable channels 1-16 and the current code makes it impossible to select only channel 1) and is not concerned with chord mode. I just stated that working on chord mode is a waste of time when no patches get applied anymore to Frescobaldi anyway. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user