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often you have pickup bar in music (in german: "Auftakt"), or you could call it 0th bar.
It would be really helpful if you could choose whether the bar ruler in the arrangement window starts with "1" or with "0".
It's just a visual thing - but if you have to use bar "1" as pickup bar it makes it more difficult to see common musical periods of 16 bars, 32bars, cause all is shifted by 1 bar.
Di., 21.04.2015 - 20:09 Permalink
a lot of daws cant cope with negative time. so this would put the midi out by 1 bar in the daw. It would have to be an option that was user selectable.
There is an option to have a count in..assuming you use the metronome. This isnt shown in the synfire arrange view but is useful when manually recording figures into synfire.
Mi., 22.04.2015 - 10:49 Permalink
it should not affect anything but some pixels on the screen! What I suggested would only mean that some internal drawing routine which draws the bar numbers now respects a new offset value which has to be substracted from each bar number.
Seems like a quite trivial change with no side effects...
Fr., 24.04.2015 - 21:41 Permalink
Well, not so trivial. It affects external synchronization with DAWs. The time ruler is the most important coordinate in the system. Graphics is only a small part of it. Anywhere you display or enter time, such an offset needs to be taken into account. This means the underlying transport model needs a change, not just pixels on the screen ;-)
Anyway, it's on the list already.