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BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Mon Mar 24, 2014 5:07 pm

musicdevelopments wrote:I see! I will add 'Split Phrases On Chord Boundaries' in the next beta! Good idea, thanks, lulukom!

Wow! Great, great, great advance here too! Because it opens a lot of new occasions to multiply the possibilities.

musicdevelopments · Post by **musicdevelopments** » Mon Mar 24, 2014 8:21 pm

BlackWinny wrote:
musicdevelopments wrote:I see! I will add 'Split Phrases On Chord Boundaries' in the next beta! Good idea, thanks, lulukom!
Wow! Great, great, great advance here too! Because it opens a lot of new occasions to multiply the possibilities.

Hi lulukom and BlackWinny,

it is already available in beta18 which is uploaded for PC and will be uploaded later for Mac OS. The keyboard shortcut is '|'.

Changes in this beta:
- "Triplet" and "Eighth Note Triplet" snap&grid is available in rhythm "Manual Editing"
- "Split Phrases At Chord Boundaries" in timeline inspector (Keyboard shortcut: '|'). This works with the selected timeline region or the whole track when there is no valid region
- New keyboard shortcut for 'Select All Phrases In Current Track': Ctrl-A
- New keyboard shortcut for 'Regenerate All Selected Generators' : Ctrl-G
- New keyboard shortcut for 'Select Nth Track' : Alt-1..9

Thanks,
Attila

lulukom · Post by **lulukom** » Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:06 pm

Attila! 18b! Everything works well, and the new features split
track is simply superb! Thank you!
Still very much want the volume sliders on each track!

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:31 pm

Attila, I'd like to make another (very easy) suggestion:

When we click a part in the structure inspector, it would be interesting that the part of the timeline which is actually shown follows the selection made if instead of a simple click we did, say... a Ctrl-click for example.

The same for the lines.

And to resolve the possible problem of what to do in case of a zoom... the left of the new visible portion could be positioned (in all the cases) at the first bar of the part (or line) selected and therefore shown by this Ctrl-Click.

(the ideal would be a recomputation of the zoom but I don't ask for that, don't worry)

It is different of the actual double-click which shows ONLY the part selected, here what I suggest is to keep the total timeline but targeted on the part (or line) selected.

What do you (and our other friends) think of that?

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:34 pm

Ha... and also... Could we have the ability to slide left and right in the timeline by a use of the arrows of the computer keyboard?

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 5:07 pm

Hum... maybe it is a naive question:

Is there a way to import a RC composition into another RC composition?

I haven't seen that in the doc. And the import function for MIDI files imports of course... only MIDI files.

lulukom · Post by **lulukom** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 5:11 pm

A simple drag-and-drop did not try ? ))

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 5:14 pm

lulukom wrote:A simple drag-and-drop did not try ? ))

From the Windows browser?

lulukom · Post by **lulukom** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 5:19 pm

Sorry, I did not understand at first ... I do not know, the more mean MAC OS ...

dsan@mail.com · Post by **dsan@mail.com** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 5:31 pm

BlackWinny - presently no way to "Import" another project. Only MIDI import.

You'll have to do it the old way - open a project, copy (<CTRL C>) the track you want to use, open the next project and (<CTRL V>) paste it in.

See if you can have multiple instances of RC open. You may be able to do this more conveniently if so with copy/paste.

OTOH - you could "Export" the MIDI from your project and then "Import" to the next project.

Happy Musiking!
dsan

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 5:51 pm

Ha Ok, Thank you Dany (and lulukom).

I've put the question because I'm presently making a little dictionary of cadences for myself, and since for the deceptive cadences there are so many similarities with the perfect cadences in a part and with the half cadences in the other parts... I was trying to concatenate my collection of perfect cadences (all grouped in a RC file) with my collection of half cadences (all grouped in another RC file) and after that I had just to adapt the little differences with the deceptive cadences to have my new collection, the one of deceptive cadences in this very easy way.

musicdevelopments · Post by **musicdevelopments** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 7:14 pm

Sorry, at the moment there is no way to import another composition into the edited one

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 7:24 pm

Don't be sad... it will come later. It's like the train, when we arrive too early at the station, we wait.

tonedef71 · Post by **tonedef71** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 7:37 pm

BlackWinny wrote:... I'm presently making a little dictionary of cadences for myself, and since for the deceptive cadences there are so many similarities with the perfect cadences in a part and with the half cadences in the other parts... I was trying to concatenate my collection of perfect cadences (all grouped in a RC file) with my collection of half cadences (all grouped in another RC file) and after that I had just to adapt the little differences with the deceptive cadences to have my new collection, the one of deceptive cadences in this very easy way.

That sounds like something handy to have in "the composer's toolbox". When you are done creating it and and are satisfied with the results, would you be willing to share with the rest of us that RC file with the collection of all your cadences?

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 12:00 am

tonedef71 wrote:
BlackWinny wrote:... I'm presently making a little dictionary of cadences for myself, and since for the deceptive cadences there are so many similarities with the perfect cadences in a part and with the half cadences in the other parts... I was trying to concatenate my collection of perfect cadences (all grouped in a RC file) with my collection of half cadences (all grouped in another RC file) and after that I had just to adapt the little differences with the deceptive cadences to have my new collection, the one of deceptive cadences in this very easy way.

That sounds like something handy to have in "the composer's toolbox". When you are done creating it and and are satisfied with the results, would you be willing to share with the rest of us that RC file with the collection of all your cadences?

Don't imagine that it is a large collection... It is just a little collection that I make as a little exercise in C major of :

Eight perfect cadences (IV-V-I, IVr1-V-I, IIm-V-I, IImr1-V-I, VIm-V-I, VImr1-V-I, IIIm-V-I, IIImr1-V-I) by order of preference in the theory of music.
Six plagal cadences (VIm-IV-I8, VIm-IV-I, I6-IV-I8, I6-IV-I, I-IV-I8, I-IV-I) by order of preference in the theory of music.
Eight imperfect cadences (V-Ir1, V-Ir2, Vr1-I, Vr1-Ir1, Vr1-Ir2, Vr2-I, Vr2-Ir1, Vr2-Ir2)
Eight half cadences (IV-V, IVr1-V, IIm-V, IImr1-V, VIm-V, VImr1-V, I-V, Ir1-V) by order of preference in the theory of music.
Ten deceptive cadences (IV-V-VIm, IVr1-V-VIm, IIm-V-VIm, IImr1-V-VIm, VIm-V-VIm, VImr1-V-VIm, IIIm-V-VIm, IIImr1-V-VIm, I-V-VIm, Ir1-V-VIm) by order of preference in the theory of music.

That's all.

With that little handy collection I have all the basic cadences which are the most useful to place where I want in my compositions to give them live (once placed I have just to transpose them to the right key and eventually use some 6th or 7th where it sounds better).

Hum... As you all know here... I'm just an amateur, music is just a hobby for me and although I make some kind of very basic music since the 70's, I have really enough time for it only since the day I became handicapped, fortunately very few years before my retirement last year after a long career (in science). So there are perhaps errors in my list above (I make it in fact as exercise to understand quite well the good mechanism of the theory behind the cadences)... So if some of you note errors in this short list I'd be very happy to get them.

Oh... some indications for the reading of the list above:

When I write "r1" it means "1st inversion" and "r2" means "2nd inversion".
"m" means of course "minor" (because we are in the key of "C major").
And "8" means simply that I repeat the tonic at the octave.

Of course all that is far easier to read in the RC files. So... here they are in attachment...

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