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I hadn’t tried the music editor in quite some time and this new one does feel like a huge improvement over what I remember!

One big thing I’d really like to see is the ability to change the keyboard layout in the tracker mode to be more piano-like rather than the chromatic scale mapping that’s currently there, though. Is there any way to change the layout, or any plans to make that possible?

Every tracker I’ve ever used (and I’ve used a lot of them!) lays the note entry keys out like a piano. It makes the flow of composing go really quickly, in my experience.

Also, in the piano roll is there any way to make notes start not exactly on the grid, and have durations other than one grid cell? That’s also pretty fundamental to most music editors, where the grid is more of a snap-to assistance than a rigid set of triggers. I also can’t figure out how to do portamento or arpeggio, but I can understand if those are more complex than what you’re going for in this interface.

Chris Maltby29 days ago(+3)

Thanks for the feedback I've been working on some improvements since you posted this.

It's now possible to access the keyboard layout for the tracker mode from the menu

Which gives the choice of two different keyboard layouts

As for how to play notes that aren't completely grid aligned, this requires using Effects, e.g to end a note mid way through a cell you would do something like this.

There's a similar effect for Note Delay, which you would put at the same column as the note itself to delay playing that note for however many ticks you want.

The effects feature is also how you add Arpeggio, Portamento and a few other effects.

The software itself is based around the format used in hUGETracker so you can see the documentation for the different effects here https://superdisk.github.io/hUGETracker/hUGETracker/effect-reference.html

Hope this helps,
Chris

fluffy29 days ago(+1)

Awesome! Thank you for adding this and making such a great piece of software. :)

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