A 1/4 note seems to be the shortest note duration available. How do I get a shorter note, such as an 8th or a 16th?
Right now you can’t get anything shorter than that
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If I’m not mistaken or confused …
You CAN get 1/8th notes and 1/16 notes.
The labeling of the note durations is confusing and misleading for me
16th notes
16th notes
H’Pad-------ACTUAL
1/4 ---------- 1/16
1/2 ----------- 1/8
1 --------------1/4
2 --------------1/2
4----------------1
@downunder in Hookpad, ‘1’ is not a semibreve/whole note but is instead 1 beat, so a crotchet/quarter note
Hookpad 2 does in fact support “1/8” and “1/16” notes if you have access to the JSON export format.
Since these durations are (negative) powers of two, they can be exactly represented and don’t have the rounding issue that triplets have.
@HertzDevil Can you upload (or edit then revert) a theorytab that uses that for notes and chords so that I can copy/paste it into other stuff
@HertzDevil Now that Hookpad has drum elements as a lead instruments I’m wondering how to do 1/32nd notes and dotted 1/16 notes to get that kick-snap effect. Could you tell me a little more about how to edit the JSON file or maybe copy/paste the text for the above example?
its patched. i am pretty sure if you copy and paste notes shorter than 0.25 hookpad automatically snaps them back to 0.25 length or just deletes it/
I’ll add, now that we have 1/2 time settings for drums and harmonies, you could experiment with doubling the tempo, halving your beats, and simulating shorter notes that way. (But that might limit your use of swing tempo.)
I did find some examples in the library with 32nd notes, but they’re not so easy to copy and paste. Could work for special occasions though
Thanks. This approach would definitely make it easier.