It would be great to have a possibility to easily write music that involves “dotted eight note” and other delay patterns for rhythmic purposes. If the delay in the mixer allow for more than 100ms it would be quite easy to achieve by adding some extra tracks tied to same lead melody input. Currently it’s not possible, and manually copying notes to other voices is not fun.
If that 100ms is not to due to a technical limitation, maybe a relatively easy improvement that would give really exciting possibilities. Dotted eight note at 120BPM is 375ms so even 500ms would be nice to have for many cases. 1s-2s would allow for multiple repeats - even better.
If somebody does not know, this what I’m talking about:
I think those are just two different types of delays. The delay I implement in Hookpad is just a way to create some interesting micro timing or fix it as some instruments might be a bit out of grid in certain tempos or pitches.
Now the delay you’re talking about is a real effect which should have more options like syncing to the project speed, selecting different durations, cut off the high frequencies, perhaps even ping pong effects etc.
Off course you could simulate something like this by duplicating your instrument and then applying a delay of a dotted eighth to the duplicate, but I think compared to a real effect it would nothing more than a “hack”. I think Hookpad might have simple delay function under the hood which just doesn’t have a user interface. I’ll have a look at it. Perhaps it’s something which can be achieved quite quickly.
