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I'd love to see a 'paint brush' too that would have a handful of parameters to paint notes. Also a similar 'erasure' brush, which would intellegiently thin some notes (again with a handful of parameters)
The paintbush could paint in harmonies, staggered harmonies, counter point, etc. The erasure would like wise act similiarly. I often spend a lot of time 'erasing' notes in a piece, to create more clarity. If you have 3 or 4 tracks of chords, it very quickly get's muddy. Erasing certain notes in each track creates harmonic movement between the individual instruments.
Wed, 2012-07-04 - 01:05 Permalink
I've had a similar wish. Perhaps with hotkeys (single keys) mapped to different functions such as the eraser feature Markstyles suggested, so that one could remain in contact with the note information but still be able to easily manipulate the data using different tools. And If I may return to my Rhythm rant it would be cool if you could have the rhythm and/or step parameter copied to a container and then draw in the melodic contour super imposed over it. To give a Synfire analogy, the melodic shape would be the form and the rhythm would be the content. Can Synfire already do this? I think I may go try right now.
Wed, 2012-07-04 - 06:31 Permalink
it would be cool if you could have the rhythm and/or step parameter copied to a container and then draw in the melodic contour super imposed over it. To give a Synfire analogy, the melodic shape would be the form and the rhythm would be the content. Can Synfire already do this?
Yes, Synfire can do this. You can copy any parameter from one phrase to another. For example you can extract the step vector from a figure using the 'Parameter >> Extract from Figure' command and then drag the Step parameter (the green LED) to another instrument.
There is also the command 'Paste Rhythm' (see Synfire manual, chapter 'Phrase Editor', page 78).
You can also copy a Rhythm or Step parameter into an empty container (assign it to the instrument, which you want to have affected) and then move around with that container in the arrangement and listen how it sounds at different places.