Context menu for notes in Piano Roll

[Sti2nd]

Placeholder for ideas, feel free to comment and edit.

Context menu content

• Mute
• Detune
• Razor selected notes / Glue selected notes Piano Roll Razor/Glue Tool #746
• Put to the background/place behind (when notes overlapping)
• Delete all notes behind (all overlapping notes on the same note label)
• Show information?
• Change color
• Cut/Copy/Paste

Information?

• Note label (C4, G#4/Ab4)
• Note duration/lenght
• Note velocity/volume
• Note panning value

[ShurikMur]

Agreed.
BTW can't find a feature to change color of notes, it also can be done in a context menu.

[badosu]

Today we use the right mouse button to delete notes, what should we do to open the context menu?

[musikBear]

would it be an option to let the context-menu be opend, not on the selected notes, but on the hot-spot in the volume-pan section eg

instead of or as an extending of current menu?

[Sti2nd]

Today we use the right mouse button to delete notes, what should we do to open the context menu?

Already addressed #1488

[badosu]

@Sti2nd What was addressed? Do you have a suggestion?

[Sti2nd]

Do you have a suggestion?

Yes, even some shortcuts that don't yet exist (but are issues) are in the table. Delete in Piano Roll will probably Shift + right click and middle click.

[badosu]

@tresf @Sti2nd Can you confirm that this is what everyone has agreed? I can tell for myself: I hate having to use the middle or a composed right click to delete stuff, but if this change is consensus then it's fine.

[tresf]

I have to agree with @Sti2nd, we can't have our cake and eat it too. If we want a context-menu, we have to free up the shortcut that is stealing it. Middle-click is what we use for song editor. @Sti2nd is helping us manage these conflicts so I will defer to him in this case as far as our long term goal -- he's done the most research on it.

[badosu]

Fine by me :-)

[tresf]

Shift + right click and middle click

Isn't Shift + Left click what we use for middle?

[Sti2nd]

Isn't Shift + Left click what we use for middle?

Shift + right click :) You made me afraid there! Thanks for being vigilant, it is valuable feedback.

[tresf]

Shift + right click :) You made me afraid there! Thanks for being vigilant, it is valuable feedback.

Ah yes. :)

[ShurikMur]

An option to bind keys by user can solve all those problems :)
And one more question: there are so many things to improve in a piano roll, maybe the discussion needs a some separate pool?
The music scales function is already sown in an upper bar, but still didn't work.

[tresf]

The music scales function is already sown in an upper bar, but still didn't work.

I'm not sure what this means and I think you are right, it probably deserves a different place for discussion.

• When you say "sown" do you mean shown?
• When you say "upper bar" do you mean the toolbar?

Our wiki has some very basic instructions for dealing with scales and chords, which is hidden a bit in the context menu when you right-click the keys (which I assume you already know since you brought it up in this thread). If there is something broken please do file a bug.

http://lmms.io/wiki/index.php?title=Piano_Roll_Editor

[ShurikMur]

Yes, sorry for typos.

[Sti2nd]

maybe the discussion needs a some separate pool?

No, it needs several. Piano Roll as topic is too general. You can perhaps manage to group them somewhat, but you can also leave that to us. It is easier to keep track of what needs to be done and have been done if we can close out issues, and one can't close out issues if they contain several issues.