Re: Starting playback in the middle of a movement

[Richard Shann]

On Wed, 2019-12-18 at 23:24 +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> On 2019-12-18 11:22, Richard Shann wrote:
> > On Mon, 2019-12-16 at 19:39 +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> > > [...]
> > 
> > I've been looking at the code and I see a promising place for the
> > trouble to lie - I've made a change which may even fix the problem
> > you
> > are having. Meanwhile - does the "loop" button work for you? And,
> > if
> > you have "Listening to Notes" set, can you hear yourself play while
> > the
> > big pause is happening?
> 
> I have built the latest version from git and it still shows the same
> behaviour. I guess that with "Listening to Notes" you refer to the
> option "Play back entered notes immediately" under Preferences >
> Audio?

No, I meant one of the three settings of the button in the MIDI in
Controls that is set by default to Appending/Editing Pitches but can be
set instead to checking or listening to pitches, with that you can play
an accompaniment to a piece while it is playing back.

> I have that set, and I hear the sound when entering notes during the
> pause during playback. The loop button works, but there is a pause

"a pause" that gets longer the further you are from the beginning I
guess?

> between the repeated playbacks when the playback start marker is not
> at
> the beginning.

ok, the message when it starts playing has changed - it should now give
two times, what are they in the circumstances when you start from the
beginning and when you start toward the end?

Richard