On 05/15/2016 09:15 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > On 15/05/16 16:11, Abrolag wrote: >> On Sun, 15 May 2016 08:54:02 +0100 >> Mike Rose <mikejr...@uk2.net> wrote: >> >>> Hi there >>> A remember using Rosegarden many years ago now. >>> I've followed developments. It's turned into a really good sequencer. >>> There are a lot of things I love about it...... >>> >>> One thing that stopped me using it concerned looping. I found it so >>> fiddly I gave up. >>> IMO the ruler at the top of the screen is much too narrow vertically. >>> I've come back after many years and installed it and still see the same >>> thing is there. I wish there was a way of making the ruler a lot bigger >>> vertically. > > Personally I find the ruler the right size balance between usefulness > and unobtrusiveness... But I am 'still' at a 1368 resolution, so no > super-duper-hd display here :)
At 1920x1080 on a 15" laptop screen, it's OK. On a 4K screen, might be a whole different story. >>> In a lot of sequencers if you want to loop a section you just drag/draw >>> easily on the ruler and let go of the mouse and a couple of loop markers >>> are created with automatic looping switched on. It makes looping a no >>> brainer. >>> I reckon Rosegarden would benefit from this. >>> >>> Looping is common activity in sequencers when you are building up a >>> track. I find I want to use the sequencer but this is a show stopper for me. >>> >>> What do you think. It could just be me! > > [...] > >> There is a sneaky way you can get effective looping of complete bars. >> >> Once you've got the section you want to loop in place, highlight just that >> segment and switch on repeat. Where you want the loop to stop, insert another >> segment. An 'empty' segment will simply stop the loop, but if you highlight >> that segment and switch on repeat, away you go again with just the new >> segment. > > > > Put segments on different tracks and you can give them different loop > times :) > > > > Yes, repeat of individual segments is a great feature, especially the > fact that you can repeat segments individually (e.g. imagine a verse + > chorus). > > That said, it is different from looping sections of a whole song which > as Mike says has many use cases. > Another way to set the loop range is through the Transport bar which is > toggled with the 't' key. > To quickly set a point at exact measure limits another > (not-so-well-known?) feature is that if you press PAG-UP and PAG-DOWN > keys in Rosegarden you alway move backward/forward exactly at measures > (I use this really a lot in general) so you can precisely move to the > start of your range, click on the start loop range button (leftwards > arrow at the left of the loop toggle button) etc. Thanks for all the different ways! Now is there a way to, say, repeat a segment a specified number of times while making it show up in a score wrapped with repeat signs? Like a verse segment with 3 verses, followed by a chorus segment? -- David W. Jones gn...@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community http://dancingtreefrog.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
