[CM] rhythm durations and rests

[Korhan Erel]

Hi Pete,

I'm also struggling with lack of documentation. Here's what I managed to
come up with regarding durations:

W - whole
H - half
Q - quarter
E - eighth
S - 16th
T - 32th
X - 64th

You should put a . next to a symbol to get the dotted duration. If you
add more than one . next to the symbol, you can increase the duration in
a geometric series. For example at 120 BPM

(rhythm 'w) is 2.0
(rhythm 'w.) is 3.0
(rhythm 'w..) is 3.5
(rhythm 'w...) is 3.75
(rhythm 'w....) is 3.875

You can also put an "h" next to the symbol and it increases the duration
by 0.6, but I don't exactly know what this is, because I am not that
familiar with notation.

I'm sure people on the list would have a much better explanation on this
list, but I hope this helps. 

One way of getting more info about CM functions is to study the sources.
I found out that CM can even generate midi time code, smpte and stuff...
Check out the midi1, midi2, midi3 lisp files in the src directory.

Korhan


-----Original Message-----
From: cmdist-admin@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
[mailto:cmdist-admin@ccrma.Stanford.EDU] On Behalf Of pete moss
Sent: 26 Şubat 2004 Perşembe 11:46
To: cmdist@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Subject: [CM] rhythm durations and rests


is there somewhere a list of the builtin rhythmic durations, such as q,
e, h, w, etc?

is there a way to specify rests other than just not playing a midi note
at a given time?  i am working with rhythmic patterns and it would be
nice to somehow embed rhythmic rests in the middle of sounded notes.  i
sorta have it working by incrementing a timer when i dont want a note
played, but that is not very flexible, and wont let me have rests in the
middle of a rhythmic phrase, just on one end or the other.

:P


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