Additional Functionality

Facemelter · Site Admin Joined: October 28, 2005 Posts: 17

I'll sticky this shortly -

This question is directed toward our members who are using Hyperscore, and our active community members.

Q) What additional functionality would you like to see implimented in future releases?

Thanks!

- Melter

Mildred · Joined: December 5, 2005 Posts: 1

no real comments - but i did want to add a 'minor' setting to the harmonize tab. always being forced into a major key makes it harder to use the harmony line - i end up just placing the notes by hand.

my $0.02

Cheers!
M

XT · Joined: January 13, 2006 Posts: 3

I'm still new at this program, so some of these functionalities may exist already. If they do exist, perhaps they are not intuitive or easy to figure out.

But I would like to see:
1. Chord droplets in sketch window:
- Can be sustained (ie. duration can be changed)
- Include chord inversions, include 3rds (min and maj)
- Can copy and paste them into sketch window.

2. Higher note resolution (the ability to add 32nd notes)

3. Drag and adjust the length of the strokes in the sketch window. While holding down the mouse button on a stroke, can we preview its starting pitch?

4. Audio effects: like reverb/echo, delays, mixing capabilities (panning, volume), etc.

vidpat · Joined: November 3, 2005 Posts: 52

XT:

Those are very good suggestions. I'd especially like to see the ability to change the duration of a chord droplet, too.

As for 3a: Right-clicking and dragging on a stroke allows you to reshape it, including extending its duration.

Richard · Joined: October 28, 2005 Posts: 24

Guest · Posted: Friday January 20th, 2006 1:01 pm Post subject:

In the preferences window, I clicked on 32nd notes for resolution, but that only allows you to click to the 32nds in the grid. But I can't shorten the notes themselves to be 32nds.

As for changing the strokes, when I right-click and try to shorten one of them, it doesn't get shorter, it just doubles over and bends. Am I doing something wrong?

I was going to ask about Audio as well! That would be cool to add singing or other samples to the ringtones (I wonder if people will have a problem with copyrights though?).

heineman · Joined: November 2, 2005 Posts: 21

I work in sketch window, place PLAY at key spot, play/listen, go to melody window to update melody, then go back to sketch window and the PLAY is reset to home.

What I would like to do it return back to the sketch window to play exactly where I had last left the 'cursor'.

The implication is that you need to have some quick way to return to home on the sketch window. Perhaps a double click on the PLAY? or (since keyboard is also active) you can press HOME.

heineman · Joined: November 2, 2005 Posts: 21

feature request: if an upload fails, they shouldn't appear on the RecentUploads list (i.e., "a prayer of thanksiv" etc...)

sillybapx · Joined: February 2, 2006 Posts: 2

I think that my method for putting a crescendo on a long stroke is a little absurd. I draw out the length of the long stroke in loop size strokes, then try to increase the size (volume) of each little loop. It sounds a little choppy. Perhaps a way to put a decrescendo or crescendo over a long loop would make this simpler.
-Sillybapx

sillybapx · Joined: February 2, 2006 Posts: 2

Is there a way to get longer notes out of midi instruments that have an attack at the beginning of the note. For example I want a note that sounds like Daaaaaa, but because I can only do 4 beat notes, it sounds like DaaaaDaa. Just something I was thinking about when I saw that I wrote the word choppy.
-Silly

vidpat · Joined: November 3, 2005 Posts: 52

I agree, there isn't an elegant way to create a crescendo or decrescendo. Sometimes, I'll break a phrase into several Melody Windows/Strokes, so that each fragment can be assigned a different volume. With small sequences of quarter notes, dots can be used in the Sketch Window, rather than creating a motive. Each dot can then have an independent volume. Also, building up the sound by introducing parts in unison can produce a similar effect. However, for some MIDI synths, each part must have a different instrument when in the same register.

It would be nice to control the dynamics of a stroke, more than just the volume for the entire stroke. For example, to have the ability to perform a crescendo/decrescendo over the entire length of a stroke, a volume control could be provided at each end of the (sufficiently long) stroke. The volume of each note would be interpolated over the duration of the stroke.

MIDI does not impose a limitation on the length of a note. I believe there was talk of allowing longer note durations (greater than a whole note) in Hyperscore. In the mean time, for some instruments with a subtle attack, it can be possible to disguise the break in the notes by overlapping a long note at the break. I did this at the end of "Spero ea qui amabo". Also, placing a new note at that beat in another part can help cover the new attack in the "middle" of the note.

Make1Music · Joined: February 2, 2006 Posts: 1

I wish there were more colors, and could make the sketch window longer...

hdog · Joined: November 7, 2005 Posts: 20

Soloban1 · Joined: February 16, 2006 Posts: 37

I think an automatic or manual repeat feature for the individual melody and percussion windows would help greatl.

Also the ability to input notes without having the playback stop.

I noticed that the Sketch window really only shifts things by an entire 1/4 note. Even though it is visually adjustable to small increments, there is only a shift every beat.

If the grids lined up with the counting, that would help tremendously as well. As far as i know, it starts to misalign early on and doesn't line up anymore.

Guest · Posted: Friday February 24th, 2006 7:25 am Post subject:

sabertooth · Joined: April 23, 2006 Posts: 26

to be able to make one percussion window one tempo ,,, and then increase it in the sketch window ,,, so u can hav diff tempos for each window

vidpat · Joined: November 3, 2005 Posts: 52

Having different tempos per motive strikes me as a bit odd, considering material of differing tempo could be heard in unison when layed out as such in the sketch. Only at certain ratios would this likely make for pleasing music. Some sort of polyrhythm, perhaps. These integral ratios could be accomplished simply by augmenting or diminishing the duration of the notes in a motive, given present functionality.

Variable tempo control would be nice. A control curve, similar to the harmony line, could provide a mechanism to alter the tempo at various points throughout a composition. The temptation here would be to add a line to control any musical parameter that could vary over the course of a piece; practical concerns for usability and UI design being a limiting factor.

EndScene · Joined: April 11, 2006 Posts: 2

If you will be able to add audio...
would it then be allowable to simply play a song,
record it,
and then store it on hyper-score? if so that would be soo cool.

toddric · Joined: May 5, 2006 Posts: 1

I'd love to be able to import a melody line into the sketch window as a straight line that maps out measure for measure. In fact, I'd prefer that as a default.

I'd like to be able to stretch and trim a melody line in the sketch window.

I'd like to have a toggle (CAPS LOCK?) in the Sketch Window so that I don't have to hold the SHIFT key to draw a straight line.

It'd be nice to be able to use different time signatures (3/4, 2/4, 6/ Cool

.

I'd *really* love to have something translate the completed Sketch Window into full musical notation (that I'd be happy to pay up to $50 for -- *IF* I could get the copyright to the music I'd written).

I'd love to be able to export the HSC to different sound processing tools and also save it as a MP3 file.

I'd like to be able to tie and slur notes in the melody line (I know that's an advanced feature).

I also definitely want more than the current 8 colors/melody/percussion options.

I really would like to have the grid in the Sketch Window a bit more visible -- aligning stuff is really difficult right now.

And it would be really nice to have a "snap to grid" capability.

Oh, hey! How about fade in/fade out and other effects? I suppose that can be faked right now by cutting off meaures into separate melodies and controlling the volume but that's not quite the same.

vidpat · Joined: November 3, 2005 Posts: 52

toddric: I have a feeling you will be very happy, in the near future. From what I hear, a great many of your issues are being addressed.

I really like the [Caps Lock] idea, though I, personally, haven't seemed to mind holding [Shift].

Slurs, more specifically portamenti, would be nice, too. However, lack of support for such effects in common MIDI hardware seems like it could pose a problem.