Improving the arrangement of Blocks

[ricknjacky]

The blocks although are arranged in their respective palettes, The palette's are very hard to follow. We should think of better organization of the blocks, e.g. grouping together similar ones. It'll be helpful when we eventually start working on MB2.

[ricknjacky]

I address the rhythm palette here:-

The blocks can be segregated into 3 major groups:-
NOTE VALUE

• The default block that pops upon clicking the note value block
• SOL 4 block
• G 4 Block
• +1 BLOCK
• 44 BLOCK {NTH MODAL}
• SCALE DEGREE
• NOTE VALUE 7 {PITCH NUMBER 7}
• NOTE VALUE 392Hz
• NOTE VALUE DRUM

NOTE VALUE MANIPULATION

• SILENCE
• DOT
• TIE
• MULTIPLY NOTE VALUE
• SKIP NOTES
• SWING

NOTE VALUE BLOCK
{ONLY 1 BLOCK IN THIS GROUP}
==[NOTE VALUE]

[ricknjacky]

The meter palette can be segregated similarly as follows:

NUMBER OF BEATS {NOTE VALUE}
NUMBER OF BEATS {NOTE VALUE}

PICKUP
PICKUP

SET NUMBER OF BEATS

• beats per minute
• master beats per minute

GET NOTES

• note counter
• notes played
• whole notes played
• current meter
• beats per minute
• beat factor
• sum note values

ACTION NOTES

• no clock
• on strong beat
• on weak beat
• on every note do
• on every beat do

[ricknjacky]

The pitch palette can be segregated similarly as follows:

PITCH VALUE

• The default block that pops upon clicking the PITCH value block
• G 4 Block
• SCALAR STEP +-
• NTH MODAL
• PITCH NUMBER
• HERTZ
• SOL
• G
• SARGAM
• SCALE DEGREE

PITCH ACCIDENTALS

• SHARP #
• FLAT b
• ACCIDENTAL BLOCK
• ==[ACCIDENTAL]

SCALAR TRANSPOSE

• UNISON
• SECOND
• THIRD
• FOURTH
• FIFTH
• SIXTH
• SEVENTH
• DOWN THIRD
• DOWN SIXTH

TRANSPOSE

• OCTAVE
• SEMI TONE TRANSPOSE

SET THE VALUES

• REGISTER
• INVERT
• SET PITCH NUMBER OFFSET

CONVERT

• PITCH CONVERTER
• Y TO PITCH
• NUMBER TO OCTAVE
• NUMBER TO PITCH

GET VALUE

• SCALAR CHANGE IN PITCH
• CHANGE IN PITCH
• SCALAR STEP UP
• SCALAR STEP DOWN

[meganindya]

@pikurasa @walterbender This is in reference to our discussion during the summer to organize the palette lists for clarity. I suggested him to try and group similar blocks. We could possibly have dropdowns or pie menus. Opinions?

[walterbender]

The organization works for me. Another overlay over the same list would be "low shelf" vs "high shelf" or "things you use all the time" vs "things you use occasionally"

[ksraj123]

How about having another palette for most frequently used blocks? This palette could contain a scrollable dynamic list of blocks sorted from most to least frequently used.