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• Time-stretching of note and curve sequence events on tracks.

Topic: 2.33

• MIDI files can be auditioned in the browser, and dragged onto the note editor.
• Insert key can duplicate a multiple event selection.
• Improved realtime bounce recording.

Topic: 2.35

@thcilnnahoj wrote:

@Zynewave wrote:

When dropping a MIDI file or a sequence object onto a track, the end of the new sequence event will be snapped up to the next grid line.

That’s nice, but I don’t think it’s the perfect cure yet… This works fine in other sequencers. Isn’t there some kind of pattern length or something specified in a MIDI file? :-k

There is and “end of track” marker, but I don’t know how reliable that is. Do you have a couple of example MIDI beat files that you can email me? Some that has pauses at the end, and that will import with the pauses in other hosts. And of course, the MIDI files should not have been saved with Podium.

@LiquidProj3ct wrote:

Yes you can, by setting the proper grid value. If the notes in your example are 1/8, then set the grid to 1/4. You may want to repeat the group with 5 1/8 spaces at the end, in which case you set the grid to 1/2. I can’t think of a better way to do this.

Then I think I prefer my own workaround, writting a note in a free key, clone them and deleting all the keys thanks to piano roll’s key selection method.

Why not just duplicate the events, and then adjust the position of the already selected duplicates by dragging or using the Ctrl+Left/Right key shortcuts? That seems a lot faster to me than inserting a dummy note at the last space, reselect the group of notes to be duplicated, duplicate, and then select and delete the dummy note again.

I hope you can see that Podium cannot inteligently know how many spaces you want at the end of your selection. In the example in your screenshots, you may actually want to duplicate the events as shown in the first screenshot. That’s why Podium uses the current grid value as offset for the duplication.

@LiquidProj3ct wrote:

I assume you mean “I like it more than other similar…”, in which case I take it you like the new behaviour. Otherwise let me know if something should be changed

Right, I wanted to mean than 🙂 The only ‘weak’ point of your system is that you cannot clone a group of notes with a empty space behind them, ie:

When what you really want is this:

So, as a solution I suggest using Alt+Insert to clone a loop, where only the selected notes are pasted.

Yes you can, by setting the proper grid value. If the notes in your example are 1/8, then set the grid to 1/4. You may want to repeat the group with 5 1/8 spaces at the end, in which case you set the grid to 1/2. I can’t think of a better way to do this.

Podium can’t know which note you intend to insert if there are no selected events to duplicate, so the inserted new note is placed on the center note of the current zoom range. Is there any better way to do this?

Yes, I think. Do the same thing you do in arrangement editor, if you press Insert and nothing is selected nothing is created 😉

I wanted to have the possibility to add and edit notes using only key shortcuts. There is no other way you can add a new note to an empty sequence with a key shortcut.

@LiquidProj3ct wrote:

What could be the next “safe” chapter that I could translate?

I’ve translated until now: Getting started, Project, Project window, project start page, browser window, toolbars and sliding & zooming

The only remaining up-to-date chapters are:

http://www.zynewave.com/wiki/doku.php?id=guide:note_sequence
http://www.zynewave.com/wiki/doku.php?id=guide:recording

All the other chapters are scheduled for a thorough rewrite.