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Random Shuffle
With this dialog you can rearrange parts of your song based on random. The
selected bars are divided into small segments (default length is 1/4 note).
When pressing OK, jazz rearranges these segments in random order. Also,
some of the segments may be choosen more than once while other segments do
not appear at all. Options are:
- Segment: You can choose the length of the segments here. You may
choose very small segments (e.g. 1/16) to create new drum rhythms or large
segments (e.g 4/1) to rearrange large parts of the song.
- skip silence: when checked, segments that contain silence (no notes)
are ignored. So you could place just a few events on some tracks in the piano
window and then replicate them in random order.
- random order: when checked, jazz chooses the segments by random. If
not checked, jazz chooses the segments one after the other from left to right
and starts over on the left again when it reaches the right end. This makes
sense when skip silence is enabled and/or track mode is set to
'One track at a time'.
- track mode: When you have selected more than one track, this
option applies. There are three choices:
- All tracks in sync means, that whenever jazz chooses a segment,
it will take the same segment from all tracks. For example if jazz chooses
the 7-th segment on the first selected track, it will place the 7-th segment
of all tracks.
- All tracks independently means, that jazz chooses the segments
independently on every track. In the example, jazz may choose the 7-th
segment on the first track, the 3-rd segment on the second track and so on
and all these segments will sound together in the result.
- one track at a time means, jazz will choose only one
segment from one track per step. If you have selected a drum track and
a percussion track, in the result there will be playing either drums or
percussion but not both together.
See the song/shuffle directory for an example. Load shuffle0.mid, then mark
from 5 to 24 on tracks 5 to 8 (chords, ..., muted gt). Select Shuffle from
the misc menu. Set the segment size to 1/4 note and set the trackmode to 'one
track at a time'. Then press ok. This should give you something similar to
shuffle1.mid. The song shuffle2.mid was generated from shuffle0.mid by deleting
the tracks 5 and 7 (marimba and brass). To delete a track, click on its
name and check the field 'Clear track' at the bottom of the track dialog.
After clicking OK, you can drag the empty track to a new position with
the right mouse button. To get shuffle2.mid set the segments size 1/8 note.