March 2004 - Doggiebox - lists.zygoat.ca

greek
by Tor Lillegraven 02 Mar '04

02 Mar '04

thanks for gettin back to us Ben I`ve actually been playing with the new build all day, and as I get used to it, I have to say its a major improvement over the last one. At first it seemed pretty random (its still a bit buggy), but I think the idea behind it is great. Being able to work on just a section at a time is great, but I need to look at the whole song at times to work it out... a great feature would be the abilitiy to mark parts (eg. verse, chorus, etc) with color coding, or some feature that make them instantly recognizable when you show "all" in the layout window. Right now it`s like greek -- my girlfirend took one look at it and said "how can you make sense out of all those squares and circles? " I guess the simple abilty to mark the "top" of the bars with a color and a tag would do the trick... or the ability to have a "blank" bar that signifies change... Tor ***************************************************************** Denne fotnoten bekrefter at denne e-postmeldingen ble skannet av MailSweeper og funnet fri for virus. ***************************************************************** This footnote confirms that this email message has been swept by MailSweeper for the presence of computer viruses. *****************************************************************

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by Tor Lillegraven 02 Mar '04

02 Mar '04

well, this is what im getting: If you paste after bar 3, it works just dandy. But if you paste after, lets say, bar 52 -- the cursor stays in the "right" place, but the window scolls down so far that I cant actually SEE the cursor anymore! I have to scroll back up to where i just pasted... the best solution would be to have the cursor appear at the end of the section that u just pasted, leaving it highlighted... making sure its smack in the middle of the "song window" Tor Actually, what I'm getting is that the cursor stays in the same place. e.g. if you copy, and move your cursor so it's sitting after bar 3, and paste a bunch of bars, the cursor remains sitting after bar 3 (the stuff you have just pasted is now following it). I agree, this is a bit irritating. What should we do -- hilite (become selected) the stuff that was just pasted? Or have the cursor appear at its end? -ben ***************************************************************** Denne fotnoten bekrefter at denne e-postmeldingen ble skannet av MailSweeper og funnet fri for virus. ***************************************************************** This footnote confirms that this email message has been swept by MailSweeper for the presence of computer viruses. *****************************************************************

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Re: [Doggiebox] 1B4: bug fixes
by Ben Kennedy 02 Mar '04

02 Mar '04

On 02 3 2004 at 5:20 am -0500, Tor Lillegraven wrote: >hmmmm...I cant seem to get this version to launch at all...not even after >I thrashed all my prefs. Anyone else having this problem? Crap, I posted the wrong build (that one was the debug version with zerolink, which will only launch locally). I've re-posted the 1B4 archive; please grab it again at the same URL. Thanks for pointing this out, and sorry about this folks! -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca

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Re: [Doggiebox] Frustrated
by Carl Edlund Anderson 02 Mar '04

02 Mar '04

Mike Carlyle wrote: > <tangent> Ever see the site for Girlbrand guitars?, he uses terms like > "bite" and "sting", or "fantasy" and "reality" instead of "rhythm" and > "lead" for his guitar pickup selectors. </tangent> Argh. I have a DOD "bass grunge" distortion pedal which produces good distorted bass for the buck, but is equipped with strange grunge-kid-oid knob labels like "More", "Juice", and "Zip" (there's another I can't even remember) that I can never figure out the _real_ meanings of in the moment! I keep meaning to tape them over with useful labels like "Master Volume", "Gain", and "Tone" :) That's another tangent I suppose .... :) Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/

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RE: [Doggiebox] 1B4: bug fixes
by Tor Lillegraven 02 Mar '04

02 Mar '04

hmmmm...I cant seem to get this version to launch at all...not even after I thrashed all my prefs. Anyone else having this problem? Tor >>> "Ben Kennedy" <ben(a)zygoat.ca> 02.03.04 3:59 >>> Hey folks, A new beta build is up. This one is mainly bug fixes and refinements. Of note: Fixed some problems introduced in 1B3: * Drag from Sections to empty part of Markers list did not work under 10.2. * Option-drag within Sections list did not work, causing weird behaviour. * It was impossible to insert bars into an empty section. And finally, a new (old?!) feature: using keyboard shortcuts for selecting drums finally works. To take advantage, open a drum kit file and assign some key shortcuts to the drums in the drum kit editor. Then, while editing a song, pressing the corresponding key will select the appropriate drum (or cycle through, if the same key is assigned to several drums). Grab at <http://www.doggiebox.com/beta/Doggiebox-1B4.zip> -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca ***************************************************************** Denne fotnoten bekrefter at denne e-postmeldingen ble skannet av MailSweeper og funnet fri for virus. ***************************************************************** This footnote confirms that this email message has been swept by MailSweeper for the presence of computer viruses. *****************************************************************

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Re: [Fwd: Using doggiebox to make loops]
by Ben Kennedy 02 Mar '04

02 Mar '04

On 01 3 2004 at 1:01 am -0500, travis laduke wrote: >I downloaded some little program called Mix from versiontracker to make >sure it wasn't my loop program that was acting odd. i get oddness in >both programs. Thanks for the sample! You're right, it seems there is a bug. I'll fix this for the next release. In the mean time, turn OFF "allow final sounds to decay completely" in the preferences, and you will find you can export this particular loop properly. The bug appears to be that when "allow final decay" is turned on, it has the opposite effect for sounds whose last decay is actually shorter than the duration of its beat (in your case, the closed hi-hat at 120 bpm). During testing, I was probably always using crash cymbals or such at the end of the bar, so this got missed. Great catch. -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca

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1B4: bug fixes
by Ben Kennedy 02 Mar '04

02 Mar '04

Hey folks, A new beta build is up. This one is mainly bug fixes and refinements. Of note: Fixed some problems introduced in 1B3: • Drag from Sections to empty part of Markers list did not work under 10.2. • Option-drag within Sections list did not work, causing weird behaviour. • It was impossible to insert bars into an empty section. And finally, a new (old?!) feature: using keyboard shortcuts for selecting drums finally works. To take advantage, open a drum kit file and assign some key shortcuts to the drums in the drum kit editor. Then, while editing a song, pressing the corresponding key will select the appropriate drum (or cycle through, if the same key is assigned to several drums). Grab at <http://www.doggiebox.com/beta/Doggiebox-1B4.zip> -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca

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pasting bug
by Tor Lillegraven 01 Mar '04

01 Mar '04

every time I cut and paste into the new build (having seleted "all" in the layout section -- eg. showing the whole song) , the cursor jumps to the end of the song. This gets extremely annoying, cause I loose track of where I was (I have a small brain;) I have to scroll back to find where I did the pasting... Am I the only one experienceing this? tor ***************************************************************** Denne fotnoten bekrefter at denne e-postmeldingen ble skannet av MailSweeper og funnet fri for virus. ***************************************************************** This footnote confirms that this email message has been swept by MailSweeper for the presence of computer viruses. *****************************************************************

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