Re: [Denemo-devel] inserting chords

[Andreas Schneider]

As entering the pitches first is the recommended procedure, I mostly use
it as well. Though once I get my script working, I will try another
workflow where I enter durations and pitches simultaneously -- with one
hand on the keys (for the pitch) and one hand on the trigger pads of my
master keyboard (for the duration).
For changing notes in a chord (which I often do while arranging), I do
not know a good way. When I press a key on the MIDI keyboard while
holding the alt key on the PC keyboard, a note is added, but I cannot
remove a note of the chord that way. (I would expect that pressing the
key of a note that is already present in the chord would delete it, but
in fact the note in inserted a second time into the chord.) So in 90% of
the cases I fall back to removing the chord and re-entering the changed
one, but that is not very efficient. Is there something I am missing?
The easiest way I can think of would be to be able to edit a chord while
holding the sustain pedal, i.e. pressing a key would add or remove a
note of the chord depending on whether it is already present in the chord.

Andreas


Am 09.11.2014 um 14:11 schrieb Ellen Schwindt:
> To clarify about the pedal question:
> 
> I usually enter durations in one pass through a phrase or section, then
> go back and enter pitches. When I get to chords, I use the pedal to
> enter all the notes of a chord simultaneously--and this is very useful.
> I wish that the cursor would advance only one note after entering the
> chord so I could simply enter the next chord using the same method.
> Instead I have to arrow back to get the cursor on the right chord. I'd
> be interested in other people's uses of that feature.
> 
> and thanks for the phrasing info--that was helpful.
> -Ellen