This has been mentioned before but no tracker fr that I can find (I'll wait to see if somebody comes up with one though).
Basically the grid is adjusted according to the zoom level.
In the arrange we can pretty much accomplish this, but there is no indicator like in the bottom right of the gif to show what level and that would make it a bit easier to keep track of where you are.
In the midi editor we cannot do this because notes are entered at the selected division regardless of what gridlines are being shown. Implementing this in the midi editor would be a huge jump in usability for me.
Last edited by run, megalodon; 11-11-2012 at 12:34 PM.
Bloody hell this would save a 100000000 clicks a day!!!!!!NEED!!!
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Yes agree thanks for pushing this.
Please gents, if you want to help, don't bump in the tracker but rather the discussion thread (this one in this case). Believe it or not, it does make sense. If you got additional info to a ticket, posting there is alright of course, but "agree" and "+1" posts are just noise in a database.
Wow I have been wishing for this forever. I keep wanting to switch completely to reaper but this holds me back whenever I want to make music. It's extremely annoying when clicking in notes to have to select a different grid setting from the drop down all the time.
If I work in ableton I can quickly zoom in for smaller note divisions and if they need to be longer I just drag the note end.
The arrange has a grid setting "Frame" which could just be copied (or modified slightly) into the code for the midi editor grid. Since we already have an option for the "Grid" option for note size, then a "Frame" grid setting essentially accomplishes our ableton-like goal.
Maybe as a "option". Wouldn't it be better to use keyboard shortcuts to Toggle between lengths?
Yeah that kinda of works and is what i'm resorting to right now. However, it isn't anywhere near as streamlined as this feature request because it adds an extra step (you're already going to be zooming around your work in the editor so in addition to zooming you have to remember & press a specific hotkey).
I'll definitely try to get faster with the method you suggested but even if I become really quick, it will always be more efficient and easier if we get an adaptive grid that impacts our input note lengths.
This has been mentioned before but no tracker fr that I can find (I'll wait to see if somebody comes up with one though).
Basically the grid is adjusted according to the zoom level.
In the arrange we can pretty much accomplish this, but there is no indicator like in the bottom right of the gif to show what level and that would make it a bit easier to keep track of where you are.
In the midi editor we cannot do this because notes are entered at the selected division regardless of what gridlines are being shown. Implementing this in the midi editor would be a huge jump in usability for me.
Really nice idea I find hard to believe (given some of the stuff I've seen!) isn't possible, with an eel or something
is this currently how it works (but without the desired overlay)? Or is that a mockup?
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In the arrange we can pretty much accomplish this...
Is it a custom macro or something?
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in the midi editor we can't do this...
still a limitation inv5, in inline midieditor also?
One recent idea for the adaptive grid and relative/absolute snapping: (Arrange/Editors)
1) Let the grid be adaptive, but notes always snap to visible lines (depending on zoom level)
2) moving/copying + a mouse modifier would use steps = 1/4 of the current grid level (such a shortcut is used in Logic). At very high zoom levels this could even use triplet values (in addition).
3) NEW*: THE PRECISE MODE. Release the mouse button - but do not release the modifier key - and press the mouse button again (and keep dragging the object). This bypasses snapping until you release the modifier key. Wide mouse movements would be scaled into smaller changes in time values, to make precise editing easier.
4) relative/absolute snapping should be switched on independently (Bitwig has even small separate buttons in the Arrange/Piano Roll windows for switching the snapping (located in the lower part of a window, near the scrolling bars). I like this solution a lot.
Hey. If the question is still relevant. I did this with a little script and settings. Snap only to visible lines. The size of the grid changes automatically when you zoom. Sorry for my bad english
Hey. If the question is still relevant. I did this with a little script and settings. Snap only to visible lines. The size of the grid changes automatically when you zoom. Sorry for my bad english
__________________ mccrabney scripts: MIDI edits from the Arrange screen ala jjos/MPC sequencer
|sis - - - anacru| isn't what we performed: pls no extra noteons in loop recording
| - - - - - anacru|sis <==this is what we actually performed.
Unfortunately anyone who's using multiple monitors with arrange on one monitor and MIDI editor on another this won't work because Project synced timebase in MIDI editor doesn't work well in this scenario
Unfortunately anyone who's using multiple monitors with arrange on one monitor and MIDI editor on another this won't work because Project synced timebase in MIDI editor doesn't work well in this scenario
I don't understand why don't you request this from Justin and Schwa?
if they can do this for the arrange mode, why not for MIDI? this should be a native option, not a script...