Reply To: Preview 2.09: Piano roll editor updates

@druid wrote:

If you don’t do it this way, then I ask what happens if they then stretch the longer note even smaller while the small one remains unchanged, and then stretch it out again? Then both notes could end up the same size, if you stretched the 3 length one to 0, which would also reduce the 2 length one to 0, and then stretched out by 2, would the long AND short one be length 2, or would the longer one be length 2 and the shorter one only 1, maintaining the same distance between them?

The values get set when you release the mouse button, if you don’t like the result, you would undo it first and do the resize again. As long as the mouse button is constantly pressed, the original sizes (ratio) are not messed up.

@druid wrote:

As for maintaining a ratio, I suppose that could be useful in some instances, but I think in too many cases it could be unwanted. I have often, when composing, gone to reduce all notes in a clip by, say a quarter length, no matter their length. Ratio stuff means I would then need to select notes only of that same length to adjust them, or I will get unexpected results for me.

So what you do often, is what I called
“relative: subtract the same amount from every note, like from the changed note”
in the examples above. Would be good to have that.

The proportionally scaling, however, I think, gets used even more often.
I usually need it to scale the durations according to the sound with which the notes get played. With many sounds, you need the notes quite a bit shorter than they are and the best point lies often between standard values.

If you need to keep the original unmodified sequence, copy it to another (muted) track. …(hmmm wouldn’t it be better keeping it on an inactive layer? or better: let the original sequence untouched, have edited events on different layers on top of the original ones automatically. 😉 )