X-Git-Url: http://shamusworld.gotdns.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=include%2Fclip-stretch-options.html;h=1b461a853639c185770d30150ce0016332b980a1;hb=24eba7062403d87ae189d27e5dcbc62e33c3025e;hp=52c29f1f96d1dafbdec1c8e9319903d0f91f2536;hpb=62ab3fc6cb20dd719be831be3a8d3437395ea27c;p=ardour-manual diff --git a/include/clip-stretch-options.html b/include/clip-stretch-options.html index 52c29f1..1b461a8 100644 --- a/include/clip-stretch-options.html +++ b/include/clip-stretch-options.html @@ -55,22 +55,15 @@

Clip Length

-Measured in beats. Affects the bpm. FIXME +

+ This control allows adjusting the estimated tempo in a finer manner, + by changing the amount of beats it takes to play the clip in the selected + trigger slot. The change is immediately displayed in the BPM field above. +

Length in Bars

-

It’s a hint to help you counting. FIXME

- -

1) when a file is loaded, we infer its bpm either by minibpm's estimate, a flag in the filename, metadata (TBD) or other means

- -

2) we assume the clip must have an integer number of beats in it (simplest case is a one-bar loop with 4 beats in it)

- -

3) ...so we round to the nearest beat length, and set the tempo to *exactly* fit the sample-length into the assumed beat-length

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4) the user may recognize a problem: "this was a 3/4 beat, which was rounded to 4 beats but it should have been 3"

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5) if the user changes the beat-length, then the tempo is recalculated for use during stretching

- -

6) someday, we will also allow the sample start and length to be adjusted in a trimmer, and that will also adjust the tempo

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7) in all cases the user should be in final control; but our "internal" value for stretching are just sample-start and BPM, end of story

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+ This is an estimate of the clip's length as measured in bars for two + popular time signatures: 4/4 and 3/4. +