Re: [Denemo-devel] metronome/click intro feature

[Richard Shann]

On Sat, 2013-10-12 at 20:56 -0400, Bric wrote:
> here's a feature suggestion (if it already exists, you can shame me for 
> being blind again):
Aha! a first success for the new search facility in the Command Manager.
Well, in fact a success for a yet to be release feature of it:

I had an idea there was such a command, so I got up the Command Manager
and typed "Intro" and it stopped on "Create Intro" and told me that it
was in the Movements menu. (In the current git version you would have to
type "create i" before it would stop on Create Info, but I have a
version that searches for substrings in the tooltip).

Trying to synchronize playing some drum beats with starting up the play
of the music would be very challenging, unless you could count on the
target machine being reasonably quick.

This Create Intro command could be beefed-up to add or remove the intro
ie toggle. And, of course, then you could have a script that did

(d-CreateIntro)
(d-Play)
(d-CreateIntro)

roughly speaking, that is.

Richard


> 
> under playback or some other relevant section, have a  parameter labeled 
> "click/metronome intro # of bars" [   ], or something with better wording
> 
> The default could be 0, but if you upped it, say, to 1, then, when you 
> are at the beginning of the piece, you get a 1 bar of clicks BEFORE the 
> actual music begins (if you have upbeat notes then perhaps you'd hear a 
> fraction of a bar's intro clicking before you upbeat notes begin).
> 
> This is for the rare case where:
> 
> You are composing/writing a part in denemo but you want to test-play 
> along on a live instrument, along with what you've got in denemo. With 
> introductory, lead-in clicking, after you press "Play", you will have 
> time to grab your live instrument and get ready to play along with 
> denemo from the very beginning, instead of having to miss a bar or two, 
> as things are now.
> 
> Naturally, if your play cursor is not at the beginning of the score, the 
> intro clicking should not occur.
> 
> 
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