Re: [Bluemusic-devel] PianoRoll ideas

[steven yi <ste...@cs...>]

Hi Dave,

This definitely makes sense to me and I was begining to hit the same 
issue myself.  I'm not sure which is better, to add labels on the left, 
which could make it a bit cluttered, or to add a label(pch) to the note 
itself.  Hmm.. maybe if we use just ordinal numbers on the left it won't 
be so cluttered.  I'll take a stab at that tonight as well as adding 
zooming (will be reusing code from the ScoreTimeCanvas), then from there 
we can experiment a bit.  Feel free to check in anything you come up 
with as well and we can go back and forth until we find the best solution.

Thanks,
steven




Dave Seidel wrote:
> Hi Steven,
> 
> I'm doing more work with the PianoRoll, and I'm identified a feature 
> that I think would make it much easier to use.  Right now, I've got a 
> scale with 27 notes, and if I want to sound a particular note in the 
> scale, I have to painstakingly count up from the first row.  It's easy 
> to make mistakes that way, and it really slow me down.
> 
> So I propose adding labels along the left edge to identify the note for 
> each row.  Not sure yet exactly what the labels should be:
> 
> - ordinal numbers (starting at 0 or 1, restarting for each octave)?
> - PCH numbers?
> - frequencies?
> 
> Maybe these should all be possible, and the user would choose which one 
> to use.
> 
> What do you think?  This could be my next contribution, maybe.
> 
> - Dave
> 
>