Suggestion: Rename "time grid (lines)" to "minor time grid (lines)" and add a new setting "major time grid (lines)" whose default value would be 16.
Rationale:
The addition of "time grid (lines)" is great, as it makes it easier to support 4/4 time signature with 1 tick per line (time grid lines = 6) and also easier to support 12/8 time signature with 8 ticks per line (time grid lines = 3).
However, a waltz (3/4 time signature) or other less common time signatures would benefit from being able to adjust where the measure highlights occur.
( A further proposal -- perhaps for 1.9.3? -- would be that these settings could be overridden on individual patterns, to support composing songs that switch between time signatures -- see Skaven's classic "War in the Middle Earth - remix" for an example of an old S3M that switches between 12/8 time with 8 ticks per line, 12/8 time at 4 ticks per line, and 4/4 time at 6 ticks per line - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGJQYYYTICU )
1.9.2.beta - Suggestion: add "major time grid (lines)"
Re: 1.9.2.beta - Suggestion: add "major time grid (lines)"
word to your mother, queries
Re: 1.9.2.beta - Suggestion: add "major time grid (lines)"
Haha nice to see you here timelime!
(For observers... He and I discovered tracking together in the early 1990s via ScreamTracker... The suggestion I made in this thread is based on a conversation we had last night after he tried the new beta)
(For observers... He and I discovered tracking together in the early 1990s via ScreamTracker... The suggestion I made in this thread is based on a conversation we had last night after he tried the new beta)
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Re: 1.9.2.beta - Suggestion: add "major time grid (lines)"
Agree! :)Suggestion: Rename "time grid (lines)" to "minor time grid (lines)" and add a new setting "major time grid (lines)" whose default value would be 16.
I promise to think about it.would be that these settings could be overridden on individual patterns, to support composing songs that switch between time signatures
Actually the current time grid is far from the true time signature. Maybe we should add the "Lines Per Beat" parameter like in the Renoise...