Re: [Octal-dev] Re:rythms

[Günter Seethaler]

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Dave O'Toole <address@hidden>
An: address@hidden <address@hidden>
Datum: Dienstag, 25. Juli 2000 05:43
Betreff: Re: [Octal-dev] Re:rythms


>address@hidden wrote:
>
><snip common sense>
>
>I agree with you here...
>
>> MIDI setups work this way, on a fine user-defined scale of 60 to hundreds
>> of 'ticks' per quarter note.  But it's still all based on GCM, as
>> the standard values all have many divisors.   If I understand tracking
>> (which I don't claim to do), you traditionally have 64 slots to work with
>
>Yeah, many traditional-style trackers do stick to 64 ticks-per-pattern.
>I think this is the source of the old confusion over tracking "only
>being able to do 4/4" which doesn't apply to recent ones like Buzz. Buzz
>had the capability, however its support for other time signatures was
>IMO flawed because of the editor not properly highlighting things to
>show the structure of your beats (has this been fixed in recent
>versions?)
>
There is the famous Impulse Tracker, where you can have variable
patternlength.
The lenght can be different for each track,
You can also set the highlighting. But this is common for all tracks.

>If you allow patterns of arbitrary length and beats of different lengths
>then everything should work. Users will still need to plan ahead a
>little when doing something weird but this shouldn't be a big problem.
>
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