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(Lighting) How do phrases change when moods change?
One has the choice between 3 moods: HIGH, MEDIUM, LOW.
For each mood, one has the choice between 6 phrases (for LOW), and 10 phrases (for HIGH and MEDIUM).
Using PADs, one can change the mood of a song, for example from HIGH to MEDIUM.
The question: what happens to the phrases..?
If when the mood was HIGH, I was in phrase UP1, and I change from HIGH to MEDIUM, which phrase of the MEDIUM mood is activated? What is the table of correspondance between phrases in the 3 moods?
I would suggest that a basic set of phrases (such as the set of 6 phrases from the LOW mood - or a reduced set of 5 with only one phrase of type VERSE) be shared by ALL moods, so that changing moods actually makes any sense.
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What is really confusing is that currently, you allow changes of the mood on the fly (with the PADs) without knowing what the phrases change into, while at the same time you don't allow permanent change of the mood (currently automatically and mostly wrongly set by your algorithm). The opposite would have been better: ability to permanently change the mood, but not enable changes of the mood on the fly with the PADs.
In terms of priorities for fixes (the product is not really usable as is), as I see them now:
(1) enable permanent, manual change of the mood of a song - in LIGHTING/Macro Editor mode
(2) enable the creation of custom moods, and selection of the phrases among phrase types (INTRO, VERSE, CHORUS, BRIDGE, UP, DOWN, OUTRO) - in LIGHTING/Macro Editor mode
(3) enable changes of the mood on the fly, but with a clear correspondance (provide a correspondance table) between the phrases of different moods - with the PADs
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As a follow-up, in case you were still wanting to know more about the conversions, because not all moods have the same song phrases, they will substitute. For example, the MID VERSE 6 will convert to UP3 if changing to HIGH, but VERSE 2 if changing to LOW.
There is a complex substitution map, but unfortunately I'm not able to disclose it for public use.
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And for added clarification, if you change the mood using the PAD or MIDI, those changes are overrides and don't change the stored mood on the track itself as they are treated as "effects."
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