[Sugar-devel] Answer to Question RE: Music Blocks' Rhythm Rulers Widget

[Devin Ulibarri]

A student has asked:
> Could you please elaborate what you mean by "generating the Rhythm
> block that is in the matrix palette to produce the resultant sound". A
> Rhythm block takes "the no. of notes" and "the note value" as
> arguments to generate the corresponding "rhythm blocks in the pitch
> time matrix". So how is this linked with the Rhythm ruler? Is the
> whole widget somehow linked with the pitch time matrix?

My example:

So, if the user took a whole ruler

1

and split it into 3, they would get three even sections

3, 3, 3

and if they split the first section into 2, then

6, 6, 3, 3

(remember that the number is corresponding to note value)

If user exported the rhythm at this moment, then they would get two
rhythm blocks:

[block 1]
number of notes = 2
note value = 6

[block 2]
number of notes = 2
note value = 3