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lulukom · Post by **lulukom** » Mon Nov 09, 2020 7:48 pm

Hello Attila!
In the future, it would be nice to make sure that when you click on a track name, the test sound of this instrument is heard. Thanks.

musicdevelopments · Post by **musicdevelopments** » Mon Nov 09, 2020 7:54 pm

RapidComposer v4.0b11 is available!

Improvements:

Fixed issue in melody editor when editing notes with global octave offset
Fixed erratic clicking behaviour over the workspace when the Idea Tool is open
The Phrase.rcPHRS file was retired, factory phrases are read from DB/FactoryPhrases
Undo works better in the Phrase Editor, changes for note properties are stored

lulukom · Post by **lulukom** » Mon Nov 09, 2020 8:23 pm

Beta is not updated from the program

lulukom · Post by **lulukom** » Mon Nov 09, 2020 9:22 pm

I want to suggest .. When the Play button is turned on anywhere in the program, this should stop Playback in all other places. For example, when a Composition is playing, I am in the Phrase Editor and turn on Play, then both play at the same time)

musicdevelopments · Post by **musicdevelopments** » Tue Nov 10, 2020 4:32 am

I fixed the downloading from the program on macOS. Please try again.

dbender · Post by **dbender** » Tue Nov 10, 2020 5:15 am

lulukom wrote: Mon Nov 09, 2020 9:22 pm I want to suggest .. When the Play button is turned on anywhere in the program, this should stop Playback in all other places. For example, when a Composition is playing, I am in the Phrase Editor and turn on Play, then both play at the same time)

+1

BluGenes · Post by **BluGenes** » Tue Nov 10, 2020 11:57 am

In the Phrase Editor - Note mapping doesn't initially work when first selected. If you select all notes, then move them up or down once, then it starts to work when you select new mappings.

edit: oops, I guess notes need to be selected first??

sj1 · Post by **sj1** » Tue Nov 10, 2020 11:59 am

Should I post a Composition file to illustrate what I've written/asked above about E7/Bb?

Update: File attached.

Gentle_Rain_03d1_3.zip

BluGenes · Post by **BluGenes** » Tue Nov 10, 2020 3:28 pm

sj1 wrote: Tue Nov 10, 2020 11:59 am Should I post a Composition file to illustrate what I've written/asked above about E7/Bb?

I think it would help...

Hey Atilla, what I am going to do is just log the stuff I find and send it all at one time to you in email.

I'll put it in a writer file..

As I go through EVERYTHING, lol, some stuff that I come across just may be user errors, so, I don't want to clutter up the forum.

I'll pm you when I am about to send it as it might be a couple of days...

musicdevelopments · Post by **musicdevelopments** » Tue Nov 10, 2020 4:03 pm

Note mapping has two uses:
- when creating a new note, the mapping will be used
- when notes are selected, and you make a selection in the note mapping menu, the notes will be converted to the new mapping

BluGenes wrote: Tue Nov 10, 2020 11:57 am In the Phrase Editor - Note mapping doesn't initially work when first selected. If you select all notes, then move them up or down once, then it starts to work when you select new mappings.

edit: oops, I guess notes need to be selected first??

musicdevelopments · Post by **musicdevelopments** » Tue Nov 10, 2020 4:12 pm

sj1 wrote: Tue Nov 10, 2020 11:59 am Should I post a Composition file to illustrate what I've written/asked above about E7/Bb?

I think I understand what you are asking. You expect that the added slash note will become a regular chord note. At the moment it does not work like that. I am not sure about this, probably you are right when you expect that, but at the moment I am not in the state of mind to evaluate the consequences of changing this behaviour

The slash note is a special note that is referred to as the 'Bass' note of the chord. It has two uses, you can add a slash note to a chord. But the chord itself does not change, it is just an extra note independent of the chord.

The other use: the slash note is set automatically after you edit chord voicing so that you can see which chord note is in the bass. Of course the 'Bass' note refers to the slash note in both cases.

Thanks,
Attila

musicdevelopments · Post by **musicdevelopments** » Tue Nov 10, 2020 4:14 pm

BluGenes wrote: Tue Nov 10, 2020 3:28 pm Hey Atilla, what I am going to do is just log the stuff I find and send it all at one time to you in email.

That is going to be very useful BluGenes!

Thanks in advance!
Attila

BluGenes · Post by **BluGenes** » Tue Nov 10, 2020 4:44 pm

awesome, with one exception.. hehehe, man can you fix this for the next beta release, if you can..

If you have more than one track, and if in the settings you have "inhibit phrase selection on multiple tracks" set to being ON, then make it so that if a phrase IS selected and then you drop a NEW phrase down on different track, deselect the first phrase first. I suppose the easiest way to do this is, on the drag start, empty the phrase selected list somehow..

sj1 · Post by **sj1** » Tue Nov 10, 2020 5:01 pm

musicdevelopments wrote: Tue Nov 10, 2020 4:12 pm
sj1 wrote: Tue Nov 10, 2020 11:59 am Should I post a Composition file to illustrate what I've written/asked above about E7/Bb?
I think I understand what you are asking. You expect that the added slash note will become a regular chord note. At the moment it does not work like that. I am not sure about this, probably you are right when you expect that, but at the moment I am not in the state of mind to evaluate the consequences of changing this behaviour

The slash note is a special note that is referred to as the 'Bass' note of the chord. It has two uses, you can add a slash note to a chord. But the chord itself does not change, it is just an extra note independent of the chord.

The other use: the slash note is set automatically after you edit chord voicing so that you can see which chord note is in the bass. Of course the 'Bass' note refers to the slash note in both cases.

Thanks,
Attila

Ah, no, the idea that the slash note is a separate animal "tacked on" makes sense to me. That is just what I would expect.

IOW straight E7 would have notes #1 #2 #3 #4 as E G# B D

AND E7/Bb would also (still) have notes #1 #2 #3 #4 as E G# B D, with Bb being the "separate animal" bass note.

Thus if the goal is to -replace- E with Bb (which it is, for me) then the phrase would be set up with no #1 note, and Bb as the bass note.

All this may be exactly what is happening now, and that is something I need to confirm. Confirming this is difficult for me because a) the Bb is not showing up in the voicing display at all (and that I think may be a bug, but you tell me), and b) the final "as played" display does not offer the option of seeing the note names.

So, I totally take that evaluating any -change- of behavior here would be non-trivial and require an appropriate frame of mind. Hopefully though, the direct -facts- of current behavior can be stated (or mentally recovered if nec.) with less investment.

Motivation here is simply to create a clean, accurate tritone sub, which I have so far not been able to despite changing definitions, dragging phrases around to invert them, etc.

Thanks!

musicdevelopments · Post by **musicdevelopments** » Tue Nov 10, 2020 5:11 pm

I need some advice on this:

There is a rhythm generator in RapidComposer which was inspired by the excellent bass in this Work Drugs song:

Chris Caulder helped me to figure it out, and then Bass Rhythm was implemented which created similar rhythm patterns.
But the name "Bass Rhythm" is so wrong! This is the perfect time to give it a better name. Any suggestions? Maybe "Synth Bass Rhythm"?

Thanks!
Attila

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