v5.20pre8 - February 21 2016

The bug is still here:

This is great :) When switching the toolbar to floating mode the one at the top of the window is still there - is that intentional?

I am no notation expert so forgive my maybe stupid question: When I insert staccato as articulation in the notation view and switch back to the piano roll, this articulation has no effect to the note length. Is this intentional? As someone working with orchestral libraries it would be great if an notation articulation could be somehow connected with a bank/program change or a keyswitch to select the aproriate articulation in a sampler. But let me say one thing: This notation thing is a big deal for a significant number of users. Great work!

The official meaning of staccato is to be detached from other notes, not necessarily half the length, however that is usually pretty darn close to correct. Most composers do not use staccato unless there other notes around, instead opting for shorter note values. Staccato is useful to avoid a sea of rests interrupting your notes and making it hard to read. That is one example, another is tenuto staccato which is more like 7/8ths of a note length.

Still... 

Colliding notes 

^^^^ To help sort this out, can you post the appearance in other score editors / in Reaper's piano roll view? Or, best of all, the MIDI file?

Staccatissimo, Staccato and tenuto are all articulations of duration Staccatissimo indicates that a note should be played as short as possible and is only used with 1/4 notes or shorter. Staccato means the note should be played short and again is only used with 1/4 notes or shorter - the convention for this seems to be play at half written duration. Btw, the staccato dot should always be in the next empty space on the staff but currently if you put a note on a line and make it a staccato the dot is in the space directly below/above the line. - So if a note is on the B line (treble clef) the dot should be in the F space. Tenuto, this is a little more open to interpretation and the context it's in is important. It basically means hold the note for its full duration and or add some stress or emphasis to it. For this reason it is an articulation of force as well as duration. Articulations of duration cannot be combined together (with the exception of Tenuto in it's articulation of force role). Should the interpretation of these markings be determined by Reaper? I think giving the user the ability to alter the interpretation would be good. Perhaps an options screen where the length of such notes could be set. As far as triggering articulations in sample libraries this requires some kind of expression map/soundset type system which is, I imagine, beyond the current scope of the notation editor but may be appropriately implemented as a plugin once the notation API is more mature.

The "lack of sharpness" may be due to (a) the slightly raggedy slurs, (b) that they run into the notes, (c) the use of a non-white background in Sibelius

Can we have an official word on what the immediate plans are for Quantize Display please? I really think a minimum rest value and different settings per track at least are pretty essential. At the moment we have to choose which track we want to see the most accurately - eg, a part that need 1/8th will turn 1/16th percussion into chords (although in that example, the 1/8th would probably mean a 1/8th min rest value with quantization still at 1/16th). It's not a requirement for rigidly inputted or manually quantized notes, but I'd hope some focus would be put on "uninterpreting" live performance back into something tidier that works across tracks and sections of tracks. Is this at the front, middle or back of the Cockos hive mind? :)