Topic: Preview 2.09: Piano roll editor updates

@Zynewave wrote:

Beta7:

The timeline grid now reflects the editor snap settings. If snap is enabled and is not set to bar snapping, then the snap grid is drawn instead of the arrangement time-signature grid.

😉

Hi Frits,

The latest additions to 209 are great IMO 😀

I have started using the Editor Profiles alot recently as a means of testing new layouts for workflow, and as a result have come up with a new FR:

User defined right-click menus in the editors

To some extent one can already change the right-click menu in the Piano Roll by changing the order of the buttons in the Toolbar through the editor. However I would like the ability to re-shuffle the whole thing included adding undo/redo and other options currenty found only under the Edit menu, as well as changing the behavior where the tools drop to the bottom when right-clicking on a selected note.

Right-click on the piano keys, select Piano Roll Region Properties and uncheck ‘colorize notes with track colors’.
Either that or you have the ‘edit only selected events’ option enabled,
that’d be the last option in the right-click menu of the velocity view.

I was just talking about the strip where the velocity bars are at, under of the piano roll. Dunno what you’d call it exactly. 🙂

Here, these two enable the option I meant.
When activated, you can only edit velocities of selected notes – useful when you have overlapping ones, like with drums!

@aMUSEd wrote:

btw how do you turn off the new quantise value buttons? – I just accidentally clicked on one and there doesn’t seem to be anyway to uncheck all of them – there’s always at least one toggled – I don’t need or want to use quantise ever.

They won’t come into play as long as you don’t select a bunch of notes and Ctrl or Alt click on one of them (the quanitze value buttons that is).

Quantize and Snap are two different features. If Snap is enabled, however the quantize buttons have the same function as the drop down list on the toolbar.

There are a few things to get your head around here although its all pretty well explained in Frits’ release comments in this thread.

It works nice here. Thx Frits!

I thinking in other PR features and improvements, that maybe could inspire you:

– I think that right mouse button is now obsolete. You can do the 99% of operations with pencil tool and keyboard shortcuts [Ctrl/Alt/Shift combinations]. You could do a customization of right mouse button also 🙂 (I’d use it for delete notes)

– Keyboard restrictions. I suggested this before. Some rows (notes) in piano roll could be “disabled”, then if you move/add a note in those disabled rows it would move to the upper enabled note. That allow move bundled notes and chords, or full melodies even, in the same scale you’re using.

– Custom grid. THis was suggested before also. It allows you work with custom quantization.

– A simplified way for work with drums (adding/deleting/moving drums row in the same drum editor)

However I’m very very very happy with this new version 🙂 congrats!