On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, James Morris wrote:
Have you considered doing an MDI interface? This way you can go back to
spamming windows... but it stays contained in your applications MainWindow.
No I'd not considered it. But as long as I could force the doc windows
to appear exactly where told it would work but this would probably
depend upon whichever window-manager was controlling windows. I'm not
keen.
AFAIK, the windows inside the app are not controlled by the
window manager at all. You would have full control.
I'm invisioning something very simple and flexible. Something that pretty
much keeps 1/4 time. Something that can also slave to the Jack transport.
If doing that prevented me as a user from using it with more
interesting time signatures than 4/4 I'd be pretty hacked off.
Really, I was thinking about allowing mismatched time
signatures while still having the transport "keep the beat."
For example, each window generates patterns in different
time signatures at the same time (4/4, 5/4, 7/8, etc.). If
your transport is simply "keeping a beat" (1/4) then it's
easy to do this.
But if your transport is keeping 4/4 time... getting 5/4 and
7/8 to sync along isn't quite as simple.
Why would anyone want to do this? A good example is 'Let
Down' by Radiohead (from OK Computer). The bell/guitar
intro is in some strange meter. The band comes in with a
4/4 time... and the way tha the bell/guitar part syncs is
(IMHO) just plain interesting to listen to.
-gabriel
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