I don't see much difficulty in doing the multiple duproot stuff. Esp. now that I simplfied the Stretch commands and got them working
Not that they are related ... but I though it'd be a lot more work.
Don't worry about "wasting" tracks. You really are not limited at all in the number of tracks you have. Yes, you only have 16 MIDI channels, but you can easily combine multiple MMA tracks onto 1 MIDI channel.
Huuum. I read the manual again, and I wonder if there isn't a confusion here. Colon (":") seems used for barre in PLECTRUM tracks. And if you want to combine chord, you have to use a pipe ("|"). Did I miss something?
No, you are correct. I just used the wrong symbol. It is a | for polychords.
Putting multiple chords together would be a minor mod. But, it's probably silly.
dupTone would be also nice.
One question on dupTone: Which tone is the 3rd? Do we select before any chord mangling (invert, voicing)?
I assume that you'd like to take, for example, the 3rd (or 5th, or whatever) and duplicate that in a higher/lower octave. Yeah, this is getting complicated
Let me think on it.
In the meantime, have a look at BASS tracks as an option. In a bass track you can specify multiple notes:
Bass Sequence {1 4 1 90; 1 4 -1 80; 1 4 +1 90}
And since bass lines share the chord notes, you should be okay with minor chords, etc. Also, Bass supports harmony which is even easier.
Now, you have me going and I'm wondering if simply extending harmony to work with chords would be an option? A couple of new methods for harmonizing chords would be needed ... but that isn't too hard
But, (any more buts and I'll think I'm on the beach), here's a simple solution. Let's say you want to duplicate the 3rd using chord.
Begin Chord-1
Channel 14
Voice Piano1
Voicing Mode=Optimal
Octave 6
Sequence {1 1 90 * 4} // 1/4 notes on 1,2,3, and 4.
End
Begin Chord-2
Channel 14
Voice Piano1
Voicing None // not needed since this is the default
Octave 5
Sequence {1 1 0 90 0 * 4} 3rd only on 1,2,3 and 4
End
In the last def we have used chord volumes to enable ONLY the 3rd (2nd note of the chord). Note we do not use voicing on the chord-2 since the volume stuff in done after chord mangling, so it might be the wrong note.