I just got Ardour up and running and I don’t mind repeating my self from the previous post - It’s awesome!
I’ve done a small track that I’ll be using as soundtrack for a video-project I’m doing.
It’s a bassline similar to “Hit the road Jack” and countless others - a two bar pattern that is repeated over and over.
Thing is that in order to get the right feel I need to 1 beat of each bar to come a little early.
I can see several ways of accomplishing this - overlapping regions or simply one long region, but for simplicity, and to help my understanding of Ardour, I’d simply like to move the very first beat of bar one a little bit early, and then it’d be a simple question of copying (repeating) the two bar region that holds the notes.
Also, a lot of music starts with an upbeat, and it’s a tad annoying to have bar 2 act as bar 1 (just a tad, I can easily live with it), bar 3 acting as bar 2 etc …
So my question is can I have the first midi-event come just before beat 1 in bar 1?
The only way I’ve found to do that is with another bar. You can give the first bar a 1/1 time signature (and then give the second bar 4/4 or 3/4 or whatever) if you don’t want to wait three beats for the pickup.
I, for one vote for starting with bar zero rather than 1! I know I know, notational convention starts counting with one, but as acebobe says, the music often starts before bar 1
if you move the first time signature some distance to the right, you can then trim the first region
so that it starts just before 1|1|0 (hold down the snap modifier key to disable snap while doing this).
the first note may then be placed just before the beat.
you may then copy that region using the same offset by holding down the relative snap modifier while copy-dragging.
this should preserve the feel.
