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Old 02-07-2017, 03:41 PM   #121
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I think really any critique short of "it sounds bad" falls short. I don't think it matters how much you copy pasted, how easy, or how difficult it technically was. How much or how little time it took you. How long it took you to get to the skill proficiency level to pull something off or not, or anything like that.

What matters is how it sounds.

If you loop a region 5 times and it sounds repetitive and boring, then you failed. If you loop a region 5 times and it sounds good, then you've succeeded.

There are a lot of ways to make great music. They all have their strengths and weaknesses, but none of them are easy.

It's easy to say "oh you just looped that, easy." Sure, but
You could say about anything. In music you could say "oh you just used that progression." "Oh, you only used diatonic notes" or what have you. But none of that is what's difficult.
I took a black and white photography class a long time ago (film! darkrooms!) and the instructor was adamant about that. He said of our shooting assignments "I don't ever want to hear how you got the shot. I don't care if you were hanging out of a burning building, or paid a bunch of professional models. The only thing that matters is the print."

It's good advice for a whole lot of things.
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Old 02-07-2017, 05:49 PM   #122
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Well, thanks for answers.

....When you hold ctrl and drag region to copy it, the copy location cursor doesn't stick to the grid....

Would it be something to do with your arrange grid being different to your midi editor grid?
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Old 02-12-2017, 05:48 AM   #123
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Sounds to me like user error...

But, trying to think constructively here: What about if REAPER adds a "Warnings" section to Preferences? This new section will display a long list of potential problems (common as well as not-so-common), each with a checkbox to toggle whether REAPER should display a warning if the potential problem is detected.

Some examples of a potential problems that could be included, are:
* "Quantize to grid when MIDI item does not start on a tick"
* "Imported MIDI contains overlapping notes"
* "Item split will split MIDI note"
etc.

Mik's problem might have been prevented by something like "Warn if Region snaps to less than 1/2".
Problem is, regions stop snapping at some point. Indicator of where to place the region just slides with the mouse, even thought snapping was on, cause I double checked.
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Would it be something to do with your arrange grid being different to your midi editor grid?
They'r not connected so I doubt it.
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Old 02-15-2017, 09:28 AM   #125
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What do you think W.A. Mozart did? He has a box full of stampers to do exactly that kind of stuff.

And J.S. Bach moved a lot of things around and made a lot of songs and pieces from the same themes.

In classical music it is considered art to work with one Theme through a whole symphony. The highest form of art in music is the fugue. Per defintion it has to be worked out with 1 - 4 themes only.

Do you know Philip Glass? Kraftwerk? AC/DC? Patterns moved around and repeated and worked with. Every song since the dawn of time lives from repetition.

So your critic fails a bit short.

Your pretense is both misplaced and dodgy.
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Your pretense is both misplaced and dodgy.
Thank you for that enlightening, deep thought out and detailed argumentation. You can now go back to whatever you came from.
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Old 02-16-2017, 12:37 PM   #127
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Thank you for that enlightening, deep thought out and detailed argumentation. You can now go back to whatever you came from.
"Argumentation"? That is a "critic" of your response. Your turn, I'm going back to where I came from.


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