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Expert Posts: 512  Location: Netherlands | Behold this image. I'm a bit hacking together my own lilypond tracker, which should become a tracker (without sound) to quickly produce orchestral scores without the nerdyness of typing a lilypond script for a 10+ minutes score with 30 playergroups and without the cumbersome drag 'n drop editing of visual tools. Some ideas that may be interesting for revisit: - My most-left channel is a markers-channel. the *** marks the start of a group o' measues (kinda like a pattern, except that I'll have one 'long' pattern containing the whole tune), === marks the start of a measure (major highlight in IT terminology), and > marks a beat, or minor highlighter. PageUp/Dn jump to === marks, even when they're at non-logical positions (I make a jumptable upon each markerchannel-entry). How about having this in revisit? The number next to the marker channel is '16', which is to be the resolution channel. This number simple describes what each row from that point on is supposed to mean. In this case each row is a 16th note. I can choose these numbers: 1,2,4,8,16,32. (anyone ever seen 64th notes anyway?). Low numbers may make adagios quite easy to do. Nothing more annoying as to have large patterns being near-empty, just because notes are 16 steps apart. It'd also be practical for fast 32-note passages. Usually I'd either have to have insane BPM's or alternating channels with step-delays. The reason I'm mentioning this here is because it would kinda make things easier in the current revisit. I know you have that zoom-in/out thing on the todo, but it may as well take a while. If you could implement a resolution cell then it'd work right away without sacrificing the layout. The only consequence would be that you get somewhat stretched patterns at times. The adagio editing with 1,2,4-notes is also practical, and I don't even know whether this zooming-out was actually a supposed future-feature! The only radical thing to change would be reviist or the host (or whoever) to know to play things faster or slower depending on where the cursor is in the song. But as I made a jump-table for my pageup/dn's, a resolution table would be a cookie to make. It'd be the number of steps in a song * 1 byte per step. Even for longer songs it'd be well below 5k mem! The rest of what you see is under construction. The ^^| and __| are beam start/end markers. I'll do the same for legato. Also a tie will be done using a [ * ] on a note channel. So, C 4 . . . * . D 4 Would make the C 4 a punctuated C 4 quarternote @ res16. (lilytrack.png) Attachments ----------------  lilytrack.png (8KB - 1 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 512 Location: Netherlands | More! With cell description on top, note-column colors (auto), row/channel/cell cursor-highlighting which needs to be tweaked. Oh, and tab/shift-tab works. Note that channels can have any amount of cells here, and they'll likely grow, as I don't have articulation cells yet. (lilytrack2.png) Attachments ---------------- lilytrack2.png (10KB - 1 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 512 Location: Netherlands | Minor update visually, more updates internally. And testing with lilypond gave as result that it's awefully simple to export this tracker data to lilypond format. Note, I still need to make the exporter, but I've sorted out that I can add articulations, dynamics etc. etc. on invisible 'steps' in lilypond. In the picture: note that the pir and pil (piano right hand, piano left hand) have true polyphone note input, limited to 5 (do I need to explain the number '5' ?  ) Furthermore: beams, there are 2 sets of 2 8th notes, and those last 5 notes are slurred. (lily4.png) Attachments ---------------- lily4.png (84KB - 0 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 512 Location: Netherlands | Behold! There's also support for augmentation dots (both in notes and rests). Have yet to do articulations like staccato, tremolo, trills etc. but this is already quite something! ^_^ (note, the score below was created by lilypond, the tracker itself outputs a lilypond script) (lilytest2.png) Attachments ---------------- lilytest2.png (22KB - 0 downloads) | ||
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