If this is not a good idea, please say so, otherwise I'll log it on sf. As a first-order approximation, the keys on a piano make a sound only as long they are pressed. A piano's sustain pedal has the effect of making all the piano keys that are being played continue to sound after the keys have been released, as long as you continue holding down the sustain pedal. A MIDI sustain event behaves similarly except it sustains only the notes on the same track as the sustain event.
If you write a multi-track piano composition in the notation editor, you need to be able to simulate the effect of a piano's sustain pedal using the sustain ruler. Unfortunately and illogically in the case of a piano composition, there is a separate sustain ruler for each track (staff). This is both physically impossible for a real piano and positively unhelpful if you are trying to compose for a real piano. To simulate the true effect of the sustain pedal, you have to apply a separate sustain event in the sustain ruler on each staff, which, due to the need for manual positioning of the sustain events in the different sustain rulers, means it is inevitable that there will be small misalignments between the sustain events in each ruler. Suggestion: There should be a single sustain ruler that works across all tracks of the same instrument, and furthermore, as an additional option, a single sustain ruler that works across all tracks of any instrument. William ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. >From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
