RapidComposer v4 beta feedback and discussion (locked)

[sj1]

I like the way the little magnifying glasses at the left and right of the horizontal zoom bar work allow the user to quickly set a horizontal zoom manually.

Being able to do the same with vertical zoom would be very complimentary!

[lulukom]

+1

[musicdevelopments]

You are right. The zoom level is saved with the track in the next update.
Thanks,
Attila

I also notice that the zoom levels of tracks/phrases do not persist across sessions. IOW, the zoom levels are not saved with the composition file and then restored when that composition file is reloaded. This would be another nice-to-have.

[musicdevelopments]

I know, and this is true, but this was meant to be a low-level search option until a friendlier way is implemented. I understand that almost no-one used custom tags (and not just because it did not work )

yea, a "programmer" style syntax is no fun to anyone who is more accustomed to buttons and clicks.. maybe consider adding a gui shell to this..

[musicdevelopments]

You are so lucky today

I like the way the little magnifying glasses at the left and right of the horizontal zoom bar work allow the user to quickly set a horizontal zoom manually.

Being able to do the same with vertical zoom would be very complimentary!

[lulukom]

Super !

[musicdevelopments]

Thanks, lulukom!

[lulukom]

When my track is open to the inspector, for example, on the variation tab. , I do not see the title of the track in this inspector. I think that you need to make the name of the track visible, regardless of which tab is open. The same with the phrase inspector. PS. I forget, the inspector of which track or the phrase I have open)))

[sj1]

Ha!

Luck, or the power of an object oriented display hierarchy in the hands of a master programmer.

Either way, I love it!!

You are so lucky today

I like the way the little magnifying glasses at the left and right of the horizontal zoom bar work allow the user to quickly set a horizontal zoom manually.

Being able to do the same with vertical zoom would be very complimentary!

[lovemusic15]

Would you like shorter or longer note durations?

If you take a look at this video this will give you a better understanding of what I mean with different sizes the problem with all the other generators they are great but there's no syncopation the rhythms are very on the beat very stagnant. you have Syncopation with motive generator couldn't you applied to the other generators as well ?






Hope this helps.

[lulukom]

Hi lovemusic15 !
I think that you are right .. The generators and variations are very good, but they do not have enough simple musical approaches. Therefore, they seem to me quite good technologically, but often not very musical. I mean your examples ... how many time you need to create a musical phrase, but not strange from a musical point of view using existing generators? But the possibilities of the program could afford to do it quickly, I'm not talking about presets of generators and variations that need. Ahead is a big development prospects)) My dreams are the training of this program to my styles that will be able to generate new ideas, but based on my algorithms.

[lovemusic15]

Ahead is a big development prospects)) My dreams are the training of this program to my styles that will be able to generate new ideas, but based on my algorithms.
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Sounds like we've got the same vision,I really believe that RC has great potential for coming up with great ideas that are usable in all genres of music but it needs to be simplified and needs a couple of tweaks.

What is the algorithm you're thinking about ?

[lulukom]

I do not yet have ready-made solutions and I used the concept of an algorithm conditionally, especially since these solutions and production are the prerogative of the Manufacturer. I am not a programmer in the sense of writing programs and can only describe my preferences as a musician. But I would like to see something like this (a great ability to transfer the rhythm between phrases and midi files has already been implemented and this is part of "my dreams") :
I play or load a certain number of phrases / midi files and the program analyzes the rhythmic and modal components of these files and saves them as an algorithm / preset on the basis of which you will later
let the generator work. And I also know that there is a Celemony product - Melodyne Ara, which is an extension for producers of music software products and one of the algorithms of this program would make it possible to convert Audio to Midi on the fly (Maybe this is a distant future)).
Well, this is of course a very abstract description .. Just a lyrical digression)) But we, as users, should discuss and share among ourselves the prospects for the development of the program. Perhaps this will help Attila to form a decision on development. After all, once there was a branch on the forum, where users voted for priorities in the development of the program.Thanks for the support .

[lovemusic15]

I pretty much have a solution that I feel RC could do without much adjustment as it pretty much does it as it is.as you are probably aware there are many software similar to RC but they are just not as in depth the advantage those softwares have over RC is they are very simple to use and give you results that are very usable in todays music but where they lack is where RC exceeds now the reason most people use these kind of softwares is to give them advantage in places where they feel disadvantaged for example a lot of producers are not classically or musically trained and can't play the keyboard this is where generators coming to play ,now any producer will confirm this that not every day you're going to wake up with a super idea for a song so that's why software samples and midi files are very helpful so my solution is to be able to put in midi files into a generator and for it to have the ability to take elements from them and generates similar ideas From having discussions with Attila I know that's it's not a simple thing to do with Rc so my alternative solution would be the ability for you to convert your midi files to a variation generator which will give you variations of the midi files you input which means you could invert all the notes some of the notes changed the pitch or swap the rhythm around , you have a similar feature in the slice variation . There are so many different variations you can do with Rc it's just a case of taking a few different variations and turn it into a generator, the possibilities could be endless with a generator like this because you could get ideas just with a click of a button ,so for all those producers that want to make music like their favourite artists all they would need is a MIDI file and the variation generator, you would have so many possibilities you could go very similar or very different. I've seen so many different request for little things in RC but nothing as game-changing as this. you would also have the ability to take any chord progression and change the voicing and get different variations of notes .
It's called rapidcomposer for a reason so it should be very easy and very quick to make very usable music.imagine having a live pianiste where you could say I like this song can you play something similar well that's what this generator could be like, unfortunately no software is great at converting midi files into generators so this solution of mine would be the next best thing . I am totally open for anyone who's got a better suggestion for a generator but after using all of the other softwares I feel this is the missing piece to the puzzle.

[lulukom]

Yes, I fully support you!
And if you can notice, some time ago (not so long ago) I suggested converting the midi file directly to the generator by drag and drop!