Random Duration

[bvdp]

I've just added a RDURATION command to MMA. Similar to RVolume, Rtime, etc.

This adjusts the duration of notes in a track. It's pretty heavy handed, in that it:

  - adjusts all notes in a chord separately. So, you get each note in a chord with different durations. Mind you, the other R- stuff works the same way. It might be useful to change this with a option? Perhaps? What you guys think?

  - You can't set it to only work on the note on a specific beat. But, that's easy to overcome by simply creating several tracks with identical settings and a shared midi channel.

Are there any other R- things needed? Or adjustments in how they work?

[bvdp]

While working on this I found a bug in the other R* functions which prevented "shorting" of values when used with single arguments. For example, "RVolume 10" never made the volume (velocity, but who's checking) softer. However, "RVolume -10,10" worked fine. Woe is me ... I missed a single "-" in my code.

Well, that's fixed. Now, I've also changed the RDuration thing that no one has had a chance to play with so it effects all notes in a chord the same way. I think this is logical, and it was easy to do.

I think we can leave RVolume as is. However, the RTime should apply equally to all notes not individually. I really doesn't make sense, musically, to apply the random start time differently to each note in a chord.

Hope this is making sense to someone other than me