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Re: Halving all note durations
by Shelagh Manton-3
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On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:52:11 +0100
Glyn Adgie <glyn@...> wrote:
> Is there any way to halve all note durations automatically? I want to
> turn minims to crotchets, crotchets to quavers, etc.
>
> The need for this arose in a piece in 3/4 at 150 beats per minute,
> with a fast start in quavers. I then added a slow tune on top of the
> fast bit. The slow tune is in crotchets and minims. In a number of
> places, this slow tune has notes tied over bars, and this made me
> think that it might have been better to have written the whole piece
> for a tempo of 75 beats per minute, and have the slow tune in quavers
> and crotchets, and the fast bit in semiquavers. I am fairly sure most
> of my tied-over-bar notes would then fall within the new bars. It
> would sound the same as before, but would read better.
Not from within Rosegarden itself as it doesn't have a scripting
interface, but you might be able to work with the unpacked xml data. It
is just text with heaps of markup. If you are any good with some
scripting language (I hear perl has a good xml library) you might be
able to do this automatically.
Shelagh
>
> Glyn
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Glyn Adgie <glyn@...> wrote:
> Is there any way to halve all note durations automatically? I want to
> turn minims to crotchets, crotchets to quavers, etc.
>
> The need for this arose in a piece in 3/4 at 150 beats per minute,
> with a fast start in quavers. I then added a slow tune on top of the
> fast bit. The slow tune is in crotchets and minims. In a number of
> places, this slow tune has notes tied over bars, and this made me
> think that it might have been better to have written the whole piece
> for a tempo of 75 beats per minute, and have the slow tune in quavers
> and crotchets, and the fast bit in semiquavers. I am fairly sure most
> of my tied-over-bar notes would then fall within the new bars. It
> would sound the same as before, but would read better.
Not from within Rosegarden itself as it doesn't have a scripting
interface, but you might be able to work with the unpacked xml data. It
is just text with heaps of markup. If you are any good with some
scripting language (I hear perl has a good xml library) you might be
able to do this automatically.
Shelagh
>
> Glyn
>
>
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