Dropped beats / odd time signatures

[cornutt]

OK, if you grew up listening to progressive rock, you have this ailment... you walk around hearing time signatures like 9/4 in your head! Now, you can easily set Metro to lay out the bar lines to any time signature you want, but when you have more than 5 or 6 beats in a bar, it gets to be a bit hard to see where the beats are because the bar lines are so far apart. I've done a few songs where I laboriously went through and changed every other bar to 5/4, so that the pattern of alternating 5/4 and 4/4 bars gives my my 9/4 signature in a way that is easier to see.

So you can guess where I'm going with this... how about a dialog box that would allow the user to lay out a repeating pattern of bars of different time signatures, in order to build up that next song in 19/8?

[Jerm]

Cornutt,

That is a good idea (and not too hard to implement). What is the maximum number of steps that a repeating time signature would need?

[cornutt]

Sorry it took me so long to respond to this: I would say that each "sub-bar" should allow 1-5 beats, and that a bar should be able to accommodate up to 8 sub-bars.

[Jerm]

Implemented in 6.2.3.

It only includes 4 text fields for dividing up the beats of the time signature.