Feature requests

[musicdevelopments]

Hi Yıldırım,

thank you for your feedback! I am happy if you found the new features useful.

Now!
what do you guys think about saving multiple phrase history ?
to being more clear ill use Reaper's terms

Phrase History : Takes
saving multiple phrase history : Comps

I know what you mean.
Yes, this could be done.
I know it is not the same but if you press 'K' you can add a state to the "undo history" with your description.

last for tonight:
how about ability to copy-move "Ghost" phrases to the different tracks?
if i didn't miss something...
so far i tried we cannot put them to the different track as a Ghost,
they switches to original.

Yes, this is how it works. The original phrase must be in the same track, at an earlier position. If you need this feature, it can be added but the original phrase will need to be in a previous track that renders before the ghost. Keeping the 'ghost' relationship in multiple tracks is troublesome, like in this situation:
Track 1: [Phrase A] [ghost of Phrase B]
Track 2: [Phrase B] [ghost of Phrase A]

But when you move the original and ghost phrase to another track, the 'ghost' relationship remains intact.

finally
for all this new additions
Thank you so much! Attila

Warm Regards
Yıldırım.

You are welcome!

Best regards,
Attila

[BlackWinny]

Hmmm... Attila...

Is there a way to make a change of preset of an instrument somewhere in the middle of a track?

I haven't seen such a feature.

It would be nice to have this feature to save the cost of an instance which would be unnecessary in such a situation : an instrument having two (or more) presets which are never used at the same time.

I think that this kind of feature works by a MIDI CC at timestamps xxx, yyy, zzz in the timeline like many others yet implemented in the track properties, but I think that it would seem to be not very difficult to implement. What's your thought on this?

[musicdevelopments]

and yes i am not suggesting something that will follow current harmony (chord progression),
i was dreaming a bit independent one like MG.
but might be more flexible if has one parameter for "Chord Notes <-> Scale Notes"
as in Generic Generator.

Hello again,

After studying the example midi files that you sent me, I understand what you want to achieve, and I think I know what to do.
We definitely need chords on the master track, otherwise the created notes and harmonies will be random, and this won't sound good.

The first step is adding a feature, that lets you select a range on the timeline, say 8 bars/32 beats and you tell RC how many chords you want to be generated to this selection, say 20 chords, and RC will fill the master track with a chord progression generated based on a rule set. There will be default rules, but new rules can be added and edited later.

The second step is creating phrase generator that will create a polyphonic phrase, of notes that follow the master track chords more or less. I say "more or less" because it will optionally use other scale notes, or notes from the next chord to decorate the motif.
(I am still not convinced that this should be together with the melody generator, I would prefer a separate phrase generator).
Does this sound good?

Thanks,
Attila

[yellukhan]

Hi Yıldırım,
I know what you mean.
Yes, this could be done.
I know it is not the same but if you press 'K' you can add a state to the "undo history" with your description.

thanks ill try this "K" option,
still i am thinking it would really useful but after
when i think on it again , it seems more complex than i thought ...
how to save "comps"?
new project based Comp browser?
how to re-call if the lane-part duplicated one... etc.

so this needs definitely more vote and brain storm i guess.

Yes, this is how it works. The original phrase must be in the same track, at an earlier position. If you need this feature, it can be added but the original phrase will need to be in a previous track that renders before the ghost. Keeping the 'ghost' relationship in multiple tracks is troublesome, like in this situation:
Track 1: [Phrase A] [ghost of Phrase B]
Track 2: [Phrase B] [ghost of Phrase A]

hmm. i understand that.
i know we can use multiple ghosts even create polyphonic motives via transpose
on same track.
i was thinking in this case tracking/following would be easy ,
moving transposed ghost to different tracks even give us ability to assign different instruments
and also we can easily use track variations to alternate same motive.

but again, i didn't realize , yes this may also cause a confusion...

plus not on the fly as with ghosts but now seems already doable
some kind a workaround via phrase history...
create takes than copy (not Ghost) to different tracks and use same take in all track.

[yellukhan]

Hello again,
...
Does this sound good?

sounds good? no its not just good its totally great!
also separate generator makes much more sense!

but ..
i still think if MG has just Interval and Polyphony would wonderful

[Atonal]

plus +1 plus +1 plus +1

A noticeable leap ahead of the others !!!!

[yellukhan]

Hi,
how about
if Join Note Variation reset / restart itself on start of the Parts , Lines ?
when you use as track variation
would handy and time saver imho.

[BlackWinny]

Yes. It would be certainly better, I agree, and for everyone, the musician as the developer.

[pleasewinner]

Attila,

Finally got a couple of days to really dig in and play with your pride and joy. Thank you very much for the Mac beta version. The strummer is excellent, better than I had pictured. The beta does not seem to have been updated with whatever fix you put into 2.63 to stop the VST crash issue, but works fine in Standalone mode.
Reading through these forums I see that the development of the Mac version of your program came very recently.( Glad it came at all;) ) I would love to be able to use it more from the VST side, but I cannot get it to stay on top when I am working in Reaper and this is a hindrance to work flow.(Build 4.611/64-the latest) Is this something that will be possible in the future? I have no idea how much work goes into such things. If I did, I would be a magician like you, haha.
I wanted to mention one additional thing I found with drag and drop within the VST version. When RC is set to Host Tempo and the project is dragged into Reaper, the MIDI File Import pop-up has the Import MIDI tempo map pre-checked and this creates very interesting results, haha. I tried to find a way to change this behavior in Reaper preferences, but found nothing. It is an easy fix, uncheck the box. But this may cause some grief for the less savvy, like myself, if they are unaware.
Thank you once again for all your work, it seems from reading all your posts that this is truly a labor of love. How fortunate for you, and for all of us by extension!

Cheers,
Thom

[musicdevelopments]

Hi,
how about
if Join Note Variation reset / restart itself on start of the Parts , Lines ?
when you use as track variation
would handy and time saver imho.

Done!
A new beta is uploaded with:
- 'Join Notes' has an option for not joining notes at line boundaries
- New variation: 'Add Interval' with polyphony option

The latter is more useful than adding it to the melody generator only, because you can apply it to any phrases. I hope you'll find it useful.

Thanks,
Attila

[musicdevelopments]

Hello Thom,

thank you for your post, and feedback about the strummer.

The beta does not seem to have been updated with whatever fix you put into 2.63 to stop the VST crash issue

Right, it does not contain the fix, but now I am building the latest beta for OS X and will upload it shortly, so you'll have the fix and the strumming improvements.

Glad it came at all;)

You are reading my mind... Yes, it was a lot of hassle.

but I cannot get it to stay on top when I am working in Reaper and this is a hindrance to work flow

Have you tried to change the setting called "Window Mode" under the Settings / Miscellaneous tab? There is an "Always On Top" mode, and it works for me with Reaper.

Thank you once again for all your work, it seems from reading all your posts that this is truly a labor of love. How fortunate for you, and for all of us by extension!

You are seeing things right , I love this project and the wonderful community on this forum, and devote all my time to make it more useful. There is still a lot to do, and forum members also do their best to keep me from being bored...

Cheers,
Attila

PS: the OS X beta (v2.7b3) is uploaded now

[yellukhan]

Done!
A new beta is uploaded with:
- 'Join Notes' has an option for not joining notes at line boundaries
- New variation: 'Add Interval' with polyphony option

The latter is more useful than adding it to the melody generator only, because you can apply it to any phrases. I hope you'll find it useful.

Thanks,
Attila

Hello there!
1- is wonderful!
2- is absolutely much more better than i imagine as an variation


Thank you so much Attila !

[BlackWinny]

Hello Attila

When we place a phrase in a track from the phrase browser, could it be possible to detect if that track is with hints set to "Guitar chords"... and therefore have by default the lowest note of that phrase placed immediately in the range between E2 and D3, which represents the range which is by far the most used for the lowest notes of a chord at the top of the neck in standard tuning?

Presently it seems to place the phrases always an octave too high...

[BlackWinny]

Another request:

At the top of the Structure Inspector, could we have a new button "Renumber the sequence" which would be earmarked to renumber sequentially all the parts and lines of the composition? Because when we insert, remove, duplicate, move, etc. Hum... the numbers become quickly like a random draw at the tombola.

[musicdevelopments]

Yes, renumbering is a good idea and will be added soon!

Thanks!
Attila