Re: [Gtick-devel] feature request

[Theo van Klaveren]

Hi Steven,

I'm not an official gtick developer, but I've been writing some patches
lately, so allow me to reply to your mail anyway.

On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 23:21, Steven Ruppert wrote:
> gtick is a great program and it's lot better than most windows
> metronome programs(and a lot cheaper!), but there's one feature I
> miss. On most hardware mets, you can save the tempo and other settings
> to different programs, and recall them with a button. It's useful for
> songs that change tempo in the middle of the song. It'd be nice if you
> could have maybe separate tabs or something for different, preferably
> nameable profiles or settings, kind of like foobar2000's different
> playlists.

Okay, so let me get this straight. The use case for this is songs that
change tempo or rhythm one or more times, and you need a quick way to
change the tempo to a predefined setting at the press of a button.
Sounds like a very reasonable request to me. The challenge here, in my
opinion, is to come up with a user interface that is not too
complicated. Something like memory set-reset buttons would do the trick,
but how to represent that nicely in the UI? Hmm...

>  One other thing that would be nice is if the slider for bpm's could
> be restrained(confined?) to integers, instead of tenths.
> Unfortunately, the only programming I can do is on TI-83's BASIC
> language, so I can't be much help on coding anything. I hope these
> features get added soon! 

That's one thing that's been bugging me as well. Thenths of a
beat-per-minute isn't a really useful precision. Luckily, it's easily
fixed :) I'll cook up a patch for this as soon as I have time.

Thanks for the feedback!

 - Theo