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NitroTracker Feature Requests / Re: ability to include comments / typewriter notes

« on: March 18, 2010, 01:32:17 »

a sax player, eh? lol, you must not be a jazz player else you'd be FORCED to lo~~ve accidentals ;-)

say, out of curiosity, how long have you been using tracker programs? and have you also used any other type of composing tools for computer?

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NitroTracker Feature Requests / Re: ability to include comments / typewriter notes

« on: March 15, 2010, 02:03:16 »

Just change the pattern length and (when you start editing it) make a constant quarter or eighth note hihat or other sample beat to denote where each beat lands

heh, that's what i'm actually doing now! maybe i have to get used to it still, i don't know?
i guess this is the first time i've used a tracker program [do they /all/ group 8 cells per "bar"?], so i'm not used to the required workarounds. still, i know when composing anything in 2/4 or 4/4, those "bar"lines make it a lot easier for me!

but I'm sure you can figure it out without too much trouble if you're asking for this.

lol, piano players love sharps and (i hear) don't like flats too much. i come from a concert band background, which uses flat keys a lot. Gb major isn't scary to me, but anything more sharp than G major gets tricky for my brain, heh. so i like using flat key signatures, which makes all the sharps a little confusing.

well, ha, i could always just do any new composing in C major for now lol

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NitroTracker Feature Requests / ability to include comments / typewriter notes

« on: March 13, 2010, 09:53:06 »

firstly, this program rocks! i'm surprised by how easy nitrotracker is to use, and i'm so pleased that people went through the trouble to create it!


the most significant feature that would help me is the ability to write notes at the top of any pattern. in order to compose, i need to have a physical notebook beside me to keep track of what pattern is for what part of the song, which channels represent which instrumental lines [ie i use four channels sometimes to play chords for one instrumental line], etc. being able to write this information within nitrotracker itself would be awesome.


other features that would be nice (but aren't what i care about as much) :

1. ability to change BPM anywhere (this was already suggested http://modarchive.org/forums/index.php?topic=1565.0here)

2. ability to change how many cells are in a "bar" [ie currently it is 8 cells]. this would make composing in 3/4 time easier. actually, even better would be to have not only horizontal lines indicating a "barline", but also (less emphatically-coloured) horizontal lines to separate beats. that is, in 3/4 time i might have two cells for every beat, for a total of six cells per bar; and of the six cells that make up a bar, two horizontal lines would separate the three beats (of two cells each) in that bar.

3. ability to switch between having pitches notated with sharps or flats.



anyhow, keep up the good work!