[LAU] Auto-fitting loops [WAS:] Qtractor 0.1.3 (frugal damsel) released!

[Rui Nuno Capela]

torbenh at gmx.de wrote:
> On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 07:43:13PM +0100, Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
>> Atte Andr? Jensen wrote:
>>> Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
>>>
>>>> qtractor hasn't none. *you* are in control :))
>>> And in for work (or am I missing something). I think a simple assumption 
>>> that loops are 1/4, 1/2, 1, 2, 4 (etc) bars long is a resonably 
>>> pragmatic one. It's easy to implement and should work for most cases, 
>>> and with the possibility to override with manual settings I think you 
>>> get the best of both worlds.
>>>
>>> Just to get it straight: does your Qtractor have auto-fit ala my recipe? 
>> no auto-fitness. you'll have to do all the workout :)
>>
>>
>>> If not are there any plans to implement it?
>>>
>> i thought about having some time-stretching calculator, so that one 
>> tells the clip tempo stretching between bpm's instead of a stretch 
>> percentage, as is now. just that the initial bpm would be derived from 
>> the current clip-length as in your recipe
>>
>> if you have a nicer idea, which you can put in terms of an intuitive 
>> workflow, share with us, it would be great to ear
> 
> how about dragging region end to snap to beats ? like ardour.
> 

that's already featured :)--press shift or ctrl while click+dragging 
either edge of the clip to have timestretch, otherwise it'll just resize 
the clip.

cheers
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rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc at rncbc.org