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#745398 12/18/22 09:26 PM
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Rather than having to go into Micro Chords dialog to enter or by typing (Gm,Eb,Bb,F) directly in the chord sheet for one 1/4 beat that is visually hard to see,
maybe you could have a snap option to allow direct chord input on the beats.
1/4 will give the 4 chord entry or down to 1/16 to give the 4 changes per 1/4
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Good idea, +1


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The Plugin has easier entry but once the dialog is closed you can't see it too well.

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I think there is too much involved to do that and the process would be way convoluted. Micro chords are underlaying / layered chords, that act different from main chords. It can get very complex to write up something in a single bar, especially if it has all kinds of adjustments (rests, holds, shots, pushes, motifs, exclusions of instruments, etc).

Here is an alternative wish if we are talking about micro chords. A non modal item (similar to ALT+F8), perhaps a strip on the top that can be called up by F6 and remain opened until you close out of it, "sensing" which bar you are working on (similar to Alt+F8), while allowing you to continue navigating/using other items on GUI.

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Yes, something like the Plugin has in the above pic that you can see easily and will float and display in a linear fashion rather than stacked vertically.
They don't play in a stack they play one after the other.
You need to consider also of Biab one day not being limited to a 4/4 chord display where you will have a lot more chords needed to be displaying within a bar.
In Musescore you can have chord sheet view or continuous view that can be zoomed in/out. In Biab display you can get down to 1 column 2 rows, but if you could have smooth scrolling with 1 row.



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In the Audio Edit if the timeline was made a bit bigger and be able to edit the chords direct, you would need to give snap options of not just 1/4 but 1/8 and 1/16. Have the play cursor stay in the center and the audio waveform scroll smoothly like this https://www.dropbox.com/s/ygmv1abj171os7a/BB23-Audio-Edit-Scroll.mp4?dl=0

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You can already enter MicroChords directly, just type them. (Using brackets)

(Am,B7)

In the future, windows with a single line of chords would be good candidates for separate places to enter chords. Of course this wouldn’t allow other micro-chord features like motifs, excluded tracks, so that would still require F6 to get into micro-chords, or alt-F5 to get into chord settings.


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