multisignature fake bug + UX suggestion

[coderofsalvation]

First of all, thanks for this wonderful piece of software.
Lets first open up a bottle of wine, and appreciate how beautiful it looks with adwaita-dark theme:

OK, now the issue: so initially I thought it was a bug..but it turns out it's just a UX thing.

Reproduce steps

0. (optional) press play
1. create pattern 1
2. press play
3. create pattern 2
4. set signature to 3/4

pattern 2 will stay in 4/4 eventhough the dropdown boxes will display 3 and 4

When pressing stop, and re-opening the editor, the dropdown boxes mysteriously were reset to 4 and 4 :/

This 'bug' made me bang my head against the wall..read the docs again..try various things to make the loops play with different signatures.

Cause

It turns out that signatures cannot be changed when playing.
However, the gui allows changing the dropdowns (but the controls do not update the data).

Solution

While playing, the signature dropdowns should be grayed out (and enabled once pattern is no longer playing) <---- preferred

Other (probably more complicated/annoying) solutions are:

• stop the transport when changing the signature (prolly too aggressive for live-performers)
• refactor things to allow updating signature in realtime (might introduce code to restart properly etc)

[ahlstromcj]

Sounds like a couple of good ideas, will definitely look into your issues very soon. Thanks!

[ahlstromcj]

You can actually save time signatures during playback. However, it is a little tricky. Play, change beats/bar, then change (if desired) the beat width. The button to the left of the beats/bar combo-box should be enabled. Clicking on it will insert the time-signature as an event. This is tricky, so it is better to stop, use the L button in the timeline to set the time of the red playhead, change the time signature, and click the button. There is an issue with the combo-boxes not tracking time signature; I consider that part of this bug report. Thanks!