Version 0.0.11 adds functionality to the Live view, including per-part
progress bars. The purpose of the bars is to indicate your current
position within each part. This is problematic because a part can (and
often does) consist of multiple tracks, each of which may have a
different loop length. A progress bar requires a single length, so it
shows the current position in the part's longest track. It's simple and consistent and much better than flying blind.
Polymeter is a free, open source MIDI sequencer for music that's in multiple prime meters (1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, etc.) simultaneously. Each track has its own loop length, and when the lengths differ, the tracks "slip" (or shift phase) relative to each other. I post development notes about it here.
Sunday, July 22, 2018
Saturday, July 7, 2018
Polymeter 0.0.09 adds live performance view, inter-track modulation; port nearly complete
Polymeter 0.0.09 adds a live performance view, along with the ability
to group tracks into parts, in order to simplify the interface. With
this addition, the port is mostly complete. All of the three separate
DOS programs that comprised the original software are now combined into a
single Windows application: Bongo became Track view, Stencil became
Song view, and Jock became Live view.
Polymeter 0.0.09 also adds inter-track modulation, an essential feature that allows a track in one meter to mute and unmute one or more tracks in other meters. Unlike the original software, which only supported mute modulation, the new sofware also supports note, velocity, and duration modulation. In note modulation, one track offsets another track's note values; velocity and duration modulation work similarly.
Polymeter 0.0.09 also adds inter-track modulation, an essential feature that allows a track in one meter to mute and unmute one or more tracks in other meters. Unlike the original software, which only supported mute modulation, the new sofware also supports note, velocity, and duration modulation. In note modulation, one track offsets another track's note values; velocity and duration modulation work similarly.
Polymeter 0.0.08 added presets, which let you save and restore the
state of all the track mutes. This is very helpful for transitioning
seamlessly between the sections of a song during a live performance.
The software is now hosted at both SourceForge AND GitHub.
https://polymeter.sourceforge.io/
https://victimofleisure.github.io/Polymeter/
The software is now hosted at both SourceForge AND GitHub.
https://polymeter.sourceforge.io/
https://victimofleisure.github.io/Polymeter/
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