Of course, it's not altered. Anything you do with the aliases NEVER EVER changes the original sequence data. The only way to change the original sequence data is in the original sequence.mutools wrote: ↑Fri Jan 04, 2019 4:31 pm
Ok i'm trying to understand your view:
Imagine a shared sequence part of 4 bars.
Then you drag the end to the left so it's 1 only bar, then you Ctrl+drag the end to the right so it loops for 4 bars. At this point i have this question: Is the underlying sequence data altered or not? If yes then this will unexpectedly change other parts too, which would not be good, imho.
(sorry for using the word "alias", but between shared part, shared sequence, and shared sequence part, my head is spinning).
When you drag the end of a loop, you drag the end of a loop! Not a sequence, not an alias. So it behaves like the loop it is. In your example, you end up with a 4-bar loop again (4 repeats of the 1-bar part you defined before you looped). Just the way it happens now in Mulab, except that in Mulab you can't set the loop size just by dragging the edge in the Composer.
Not at all.The stretching thing is only the latest subject in this discussion. We got to this point by trying to understand each other, and failing to do so
My only criticism is in the title of this post. From that impossibility of quickly splitting and looping like I demonstrated in the project I posted here, I got to the fact that having to go the Sequence Editor and dealing with loop markers and start marker was disruptive and counterintuitive. My "from scratch" post above summarizes what I think would be the best overall behavior. You've got your original sequence. You creat aliases from it. You can do all kinds of modifications to both sequences and aliases only by dragging their edges with keyboard modifiers. All that in the Composer. If you modify the original sequence, all its aliases are modified accordingly. Nothing you do with the aliases ever alters the original sequence. If you split a sequence, you really split it completely and have two new sequences without overlapping data, and their loop length is defined by their left and right edges. If your users want consistency, all modifications should be feasible in both sequences and aliases, but, again, they must only have influence in one direction: sequence->alias.
I will try Mulab 8 next week.