Greetings and thank you for this discussion. I have been following it closely, mostly in theory. To say my piece: Like "resize" and its choices, would an operation possibly called "trim" (or trim-right) being able to be used with a parameter in time(seconds)/frames/etc. (possibly also with a lowest threshold, for not making a note very thin or disappear) make sense for the toolbox? On its own or as a legato sub-operation (the difference being only for the last note, for the same selection of notes - the legato last note would not be trimmed right). Long story short, trim-right would move all NoteOff events and a positive value means to shorten the note moving each NoteOff event to the left. Trim left (if necessary) would work on NoteOn events the same way, although its use would be questionable. I think that trimming (right) with a time parameter in seconds is easier to think and reason about, on its own or as a sub-operation of legato.
On fourth thought, to overcome semantics for positive and negative values of a by-name semantically defined operation like trimming (or extending), an operation like "offset" for certain events (NoteOff for sure) could possibly be of value. Or not. Thank you for this discussion, again. To the lurk-mobile!
Greetings and thank you for this discussion. I have been following it closely, mostly in theory. To say my piece: Like "resize" and its choices, would an operation possibly called "trim" (or trim-right) being able to be used with a parameter in time(seconds)/frames/etc. (possibly also with a lowest threshold, for not making a note very thin or disappear) make sense for the toolbox? On its own or as a legato sub-operation (the difference being only for the last note, for the same selection of notes - the legato last note would not be trimmed right). Long story short, trim-right would move all NoteOff events and a positive value means to shorten the note moving each NoteOff event to the left. Trim left (if necessary) would work on NoteOn events the same way, although its use would be questionable. I think that trimming (right) with a time parameter in seconds is easier to think and reason about, on its own or as a sub-operation of legato.
On fourth thought, to overcome semantics for positive and negative values of a by-name semantically defined operation like trimming (or extending), an operation like "offset" for certain events (NoteOff for sure) could possibly be of value. Or not. Thank you for this discussion, again. To the lurk-mobile!