> big and ugly dialog box. And what about a new toggle button, or two, to
> start playing and stop the metronome inside the dialog, to give auditive
> feedback to the user?

Sounds good.

> Talking about the metronome, what about a new control to increase or
> decrease the tempo, inside the transport toolbars? The control should be
> operable as a live playing or recording live adjustment.

I suggested this years ago, but Rich vehemently disagreed with the concept, 
since the ability to play with different tempi on the fly is useless in a 
world where you have audio segments recorded at a fixed tempo.

If he has mellowed on the issue somewhat since then, I still think it's a good 
idea.  I'd especially like to be able to speed it up or slow it down 
temporarily, without actually affecting the tempo in a permanent way � la 
Cakewalk.

> Visual metronome: I guess that a external program, as an ALSA client with a
> writeable port should be a better and more flexible solution. The big time
> window could be also an external program, but an internal one has some
> sense, too.

Interesting idea.

The specific userland problem I need to solve is being unable to play along 
with anything while I'm recording with a microphone.  I don't have any way to 
hook up headphones to monitor the output of a metronome or backing track.  
It's fiddly.  A visual metronome might be just the ticket.

Would it be easier to do as a free-standing application?  Could that be useful 
in of itself in other ways?  Is there any way to involve the JACK transport 
with this so it could be a universal visual metronome that everything with 
some kind of transport could make use of?

-- 
Michael McIntyre  ----   Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek;  registered Linux user #243621
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/


-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop
FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools!
Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today.
http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idG21&alloc_id040&op=click
_______________________________________________
Rosegarden-devel mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - use the link below to unsubscribe
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel

Reply via email to