No it's not, and Jan is right. It's a workflow issue. It's to do with placing the bars and having everything line up properly. Not because of how it looks, but because of how the playlist snap works. Aside from patterns not lining up properly, it also means that markers - and by extension song sections - don't work if you change time signatures within a song.exmatproton wrote:Technically he's right. timesig's are (in this time and age) nothing more then visual representations within a certain tempo. Sure, it would be "easier" to set the grid to a certain beatcount. But in FL Studio that isn't necessary in order to use different timesig's.
Sure, you can make everything in a time signature of 1/8 or whatever, and the snap will sort-of-work. But to say it's nothing more than a visual issue is to say it would be perfectly acceptable to write a piece in 7/8 but notate it in a different time signature (e.g. 4/4), and then expect people to be able to easily sight read and play the piece.
As Jan says, it is due to a lack of understanding of what time signatures are. There was a thread on KVR where a number of people were trying to explain time signatures to gol, and it was clear that he had no idea what they were depsite claiming that FL worked just fine with any time signature (which is a lie). At some point I think the penny dropped, after which we were promised time signatures in FL 13. At least it seemed that gol finally understood the difference between a quarter note and an eighth note. If you've ever used what gol thought were the time signature settings in FL, you will immediately notice that they make no sense whatsoever, and have nothing to do with traditional time signatures at all.
