Developer Journal 3/19/2008

 

Ever have a song that looks like the first example below?  Ever wish there were a better way to make sense of that mess?  Take a look at the Spectrogram view below it.

 

 

Spectrogram will be included in 0.3 as well as some other new features.  The spectrogram displays time in the X axis, frequency (12TET music note) in the y axis, and intensity as color. 

 

Stay tuned for more 0.3 announcements.

 

 

Y = vertical (up/down),X= horizontal (left/right). 

 

There are multiple things that can be done with this information:

 

1) The obvious: see beats easier

2) Track specific music notes (let's say you want to represent some chimes on the bushes for example).

 

It more about prioritization.  The presumption is that for the majority of users, the process of setting up the drawing is a once per year activity.  Once the drawing is set up it can be imported into other sequences when the channels are imported.  The current development priority has been on the day-to-day activities with things like the drawing editor to get more attention later on.

 

The current drawing editor lacks a lot of necessary functionality.  As you mentioned, it would be nice to be able to copy the drawing from one channel to another (in my case, 6 identically layed out colors on the house), and it would be nice to delete a mistaken line without wiping out the whole channel.  There are plans to expand the drawing editor.  At this point I'm not sure if those plans will fully become a part of 1.0, partially become part of 1.0 and partially 1.1, or if they will entirely be a part of the 1.1 update.