+ Timeline: different markings to distinguish between different beat divisions
+ Timeline: tweaks to text drawing logic (increase likelihood of labeling divisions that the user wants to see)
When zooming I want to see the same thing closer or farther away. Now when zooming, the thing I'm looking at changes entirely.
99+% of music works in patterns of 4, 8, 16, 32 bars etc. Having the elegant "rules" of music take a back seat to some weird logic of showing irrelevant divisions such as 3 or 5 bars starting on totally arbitrary positions that change at every zoom level is completely unusable for music.
Regardless of the zoom, major timeline points (every 4, 8, 16, 32 bars) should remain constant. This allows a consistent reference. This is how the grid in every DAW has always worked (including Reaper before 461pre6) and always should.
EXAMPLES
Notice how regardless of the zoom, because the loop starts at a musically relevant position it remains at a major timeline point this stays consistent at every scale, and always the same intervals of 4, 8, or 16. This is desirable.
(note: the reason the grid numbers are a bit strange is the timeline started at -5 in this example.)
This however is completely broken. When zooming instead of showing 4, 8, 16 divisions it jumps all over the place. Bar 22 to 25, or 21 to 27? Why would I want to see those numbers when working on my 16 bar loop?
Also notice how my loop points which are between bars 17 and 33 (major musical divisions) appear to be in the middle of nowhere when the zoom changes. This means if I now want to view my loop between the major grid divisions it was created on,
it only works at one zoom level.
Another example:
When zooming, the primary grid numbers stay the same, and when scrolling the grid numbers stay the same. Perfect!
Now when zooming the numbers change, and when scrolling the numbers change as well. This is confusing and not at all helpful.
Quote:
Originally Posted by gofer
On the other hand, when I zoom out, then I get numbers like
1-4-7-10-..., or 1-6-11-16-...
where I would much prefer
1-5-9-13-..., or 1-9-17-23-...
but maybe I am just too fixated to 4 and 8 measure divisions?
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The reason we are fixated on 4 and 8 bar measures is because that is the natural structure of music!
The current change if applied to the piano roll would place the keys on different frequencies at every zoom level.
"Nah, that's not an A key anymore, it now represents 491.6Hz."
And the note you actually played is now floating in lala land in some random place on the piano roll...