Hive mind, I need help with making menu entries make sense.
I'm doing work on a new script for REAPER that detects chords you've played in selected MIDI notes, sorts them into groups like "Lowest notes", "Highest notes", and um... groups each note in between those sensibly named things. It builds a dynamic menu so you can select whichever note group you want and copy, mute, delete, do whatever to that component of the chords. The menu also shows how many chords in the selection each group borrows notes from.
Question is this:
What should I call those menu entries between the Lowest notes and Highest notes? At the moment the menu presents them like lowest notes, 2nd notes, 3rd notes, highest notes etc, but that doesn't seem like an intuitive way to summarize the information. I feel like it clashes with any preexisting musical/intervalic knowledge of what you've played. EG, when the menu offers you the choice to select 3rd notes from X number of chords, I think people will expect that to select the musical third, which more often than not isn't going to be an accurate description of what gets selected. Really it'll be skipping over the lowest and second lowest notes of each chord, then selecting the next notes up for you.
How do I name these groups so people realise it's counting up from lowest to highest in terms of the component notes of each individual chord, not describing interval in relation to root?
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#AudioMo Day 20:
I'm really reaching for material here.
This was recorded on June 25, 2011 after Derek Lane and I did a stream.
We discovered that, for some reason, applying and then disabling phantom power on my ART TPS-II preamp with passive (dynamic) microphones made a really interesting sound, so we recorded it.
The microphones used were Sennheiser E835 hand-held dynamic microphones.
Captioned by hand, not using AI tools. Mistakes are my own.