[MONOTONE] Note cut

[Jim Leonard]

yesso wrote:
> I think the nicest feature in monotone would be note cut (after an 
> arbitrary amount of frames), like SCx in ST3.  Since there is no volume, 
> the length of the note would be the only available way to express the 
> relative "importance" of a note.  Of course, this can already be done by 
> setting the speed very high and having many unused rows between each 
> note, but that's not nice for RAM consumption and is inconvenient for 
> editing.

This reminds me of an idea I had for trying to emulate the concept of 
"volume" for the pc speaker -- the quieter the note, the shorter it 
would sound.  ie. "quiet" notes would be staccato, "louder" notes would 
be legato.  Barzoule (sp?) / ND had the same idea and told me about it 
at the party.

I would normally be able to add note cut in 15 minutes except that 
version 1 of the format only supports 8 effects and they're all taken 
(normal/arp, slide up, slide down, slide to note, vibrato, pat jump, pat 
break, speed).  This was intentional so I could pack note + command + 
parm1 + parm2 into only 2 bytes.  I figured these were the most I could 
add to properly support the PC speaker.

Version 2 of the file format will introduce a larger format with support 
for 16 effects, and one of them is PT "E" (itself a series of additional 
effects) which has note cut in it.  It will also have the concept of 
volume, and because of that I will also add instrument envelopes, so a 
channel can have ADSR properties.

You bring up an interesting point -- Note Cut in PT/FT2 is ECx... in 
ST3/IT it's SCx.  Let me ask the group:  Like MTCONFIG, which lets you 
reconfigure every function to its own keycombo, will I eventually have 
to add a command-line switch to display effects as using PT syntax, 
ST3/IT syntax, etc.?  Would that even work?  (meaning, is IT "delay 
pattern" handled in the same way as PT's "delay pattern", etc.)?
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