Re: Automatically realize figured bass

[Richard Shann]

On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 10:24 +0200, Malte Meyn wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> > One thing I think you would need is the ability to set the likely rate
> > of chord change - figured bass is an ambiguous notation even when the
> > figures are relatively complete (and they are rarely that) - but on the
> > question of whether a note is to be treated as a passing note or a
> > harmony note it is completely silent.
> 
> I already thought about that: maybe one could say something like “only 
> look at the bass notes every quarter note (except if there are 
> additional figures on smaller notes)” and let the user set this shortest 
> duration (maybe defaulting to 1/4).
Well the default would depend on the prevailing time signature, of
course, 1/4 being no use in 12/8 time! Denemo allows you to query the
prevailing time signature.

Richard