Michael's Post-It Notes

This is a place for me to jot down things I want to remember, in a place where I can remember where I put them.

Did I already do one tutorial with Thorn? Maybe? I think so? Anyway, the next one I want to do is a little something for the “Rosegarden Notation Challenge” that deals with that passage from I think Debussy in my flute owner's guide book. The bit that talks about how to play harmonics.

I want to show how to do the written notes in one segment, with appropriate marks and 0 velocity so they don't sound, and the sounding notes in a parallel segment in small size notes sounding the actual pitches that should be heard when playing the written notes.

(It would also be cool as hell to automate this with some “rewrite this passage as harmonics” function. It could either take existing notes that are supposed to be the written pitches and calculate the harmonics, or take the sounding pitches and calculate the written pitches from there. This is something that's probably too big a can of worms to ever actually get done though. I'm thinking flute here, but all kinds of instruments can play harmonics, and different harmonics, and then I think even in the flute world it might not be all that standardized, so it's probably something that would be rather ridiculous to try to write. Who knows.)

I've been promising that damn thing for years, and have never gotten it written. Although in this new and braver world, it makes me wonder if we couldn't revisit the whole topic of repeats and alternate endings and finally come up with a solution that isn't such a steaming pile of crap. This whole thing is in “not impossible” territory in the worst way. It is possible, but boy is it a mess.

It might be worth taking the hit and porting all the tutorials and even Rosegarden Companion and the Handbook to the wiki. A lot of up front work, but potentially better long-term maintainability.

I'd like to retire from being the primary doc writer and just serve as editor in chief, because I just can't do everything, and I've become too useful as a developer.

'Nuff said about that. I guess it's just too late for Thorn, but for after, we shall not do another release without sorting that mess out once and for all!

(I should dig out the old notes and post a copy here for easy access.)