Reply To: Preview 2.09: Piano roll editor updates

@Zynewave wrote:

@Pigini wrote:

But we don’t have that snapping to grid timing, without doing a duration quantize at the same time yet, or have we?

If you move events with the mouse or use the “quantize start” menu, then the duration is not quantized. If you add new notes or resize existing notes then the dragged size is quantized if snap is enabled. Isn’t that the preferred behaviour?

Good, there is a way of aligning without quantizing when editing, but it’s not exactly what I had in mind.

I was thinking of getting the input right with the wanted duration at the chosen place in the timeline directly when creating the note.
In most apps note input is linked with the quantization as you explained above. Of course I want to put in a note of a certain length, but I want to snap it to a value, which might be different from its duration. I find it a bit confusingly difficult to explain.

I better try an example:
If there was a defined grid (be it time signature based or a custom one), that can be snapped to (just to the timing, without quantizing durations)
AND
if there was a way of defining the note with its duration from a toolbox (one button per note value=one click, selector box is too slow)
THEN
I could simply select my notes and put them where I want them, possibly getting everything right in the first place. They had the right duration and would snap to the wanted position, just as intended.

Ideally, I want to be able to write my notes as quickly as possible, not put in a few and then fiddle with them. That’s why I’m blubbering so much about that timing snap to grid thing and the custom grids and the note input buttons. 😉

EDIT:
The afforementioned Divider, beside its other advantages, would also be good to speed up note input.
Example:
Put in some whole notes, select them, divide them by 8 and you’ve got quite a few 8th notes at the right time position already.