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Is there perhaps a way to add comments, annotations or markers to individual chords in an arrangement and/or a palette? I happen to now use microtonal scales, e.g., the same MIDI interval pattern on different scale degrees can result in different chord types. For example, a chord that Synfire shows as minor triad (MIDI pitch intervals {0, 3, 7} over some chord root) may actually sound as a subminor triad (sound in 22-EDO).
I am aware of the green and yellow markers in the palette, but these are not preserved outside of the palette (e.g., when moving/copying a chord into an arrangement, or when a progression is saved in a library) and there are also only two colours. I am aware that comments can be added to (potentially nested) containers and to library items (both pools and phrases), and I greatly appreciate these features.
Something like the chord marker strips already existing for palettes would already help me a lot (but ideally allowing for more colours). Short textual comments would be even more useful for me.
Thanks a lot!
So., 14.01.2024 - 17:57 Permalink
Thanks for your feedback. In that case, I just have to somehow work with the comment fields that are already available (for containers, and phrases). I accept that perhaps few users need comments for individual chords.
You could label these chords in the catalog
Just for completeness: the issue here is that with a microtonal tuning, the intervals between consecutive MIDI tones are not all the same (none is 100 cent in my case) -- and the tuning can change during the course of a piece. So, some single chord named, say, X in the catalog can sound differently on different scale degrees and even differently on the same degree if the underlying tuning changes on the fly.
I would therefore likely to have some way to name the actually sounding chord in a comment to better know what I am doing. As mentioned, I will for now do that with in the comment fields available.
Perhaps at some later stage some alternative option is available.
Again, thanks for your help!