December 2005 - Doggiebox - lists.zygoat.ca

about 1E12
by Håkon Pettersen 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

Hi there, Two things appeared instantly as I'm trying out the newest beta. If I have one bar of 4/4, the inspector showes the numbers 4 and 4, and these numbers are possible to highlight, but it's not possible to edit numbers by numpad, I would like that. (theoreticly, every second bar with 12/8 and 3/4 is a lot of klicking on those arrows). Second, I have assigned some keyboard shortcuts to the ns kit, and if I want to switch between open and closed hihat (good thing this is possible without having to go throug another drum first! :) the "velocity" returns to the lowest every time I switch. It would be nice if it returned to the previous "velocity". I'm quite exited about the next full build, I'm totally dependent on, and addicted to Doggiebox:) Haakon

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1.3 beta build 1E12 posted!
by Ben Kennedy 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

Hey folks, After suffering various distractions the past several months, things are starting to get back on track with the Doggie. Please avail yourselves at <http://www.doggiebox.com/distribution/Doggiebox-1E12.tbz> of the latest build. Continuing on trying to fix the recent edit/selection woes, I've again changed and hopefully improved semantics in the pattern editor to provide more versatile control over selecting, copying and pasting of both whole bars and drums within bars: - Clicking in the header region of a bar will once again select the bar as a whole unit, for editing behaviour (cut, copy, paste) like in previous versions of Doggiebox. - Holding the Option key to click while mousing over the header region will produce the beat-selection cursor, allowing you to select and manipulate the drums of individual beat subdivisions without disrputing the song structure, like in recent beta builds. - In either mode, you can hold Shift to extend a selection or Command to make discontiguous selections. Thank you everybody for your continuing input on this. I hope these changes improve both usability and flexibility; I'm looking forward to your feedback. The Edit and Song menus have been slightly re-organized and some key shortcuts have been re-assigned (hint: look at the Edit menu and press Shift). Also, there's been some minor re-arrangement of the song window; in particular, the zoom buttons have moved to the floating inspector which I think make more sense. Things of lesser note: Right- or control-clicking on a drum to change velocity no longer requires command key to be pressed. Added support for exporting to Apple CoreAudio File (CAF) format (courtesy of libsndfile 1.0.12). Also, fixed a few memory leaks. -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca

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sample rate!
by Carl Edlund Anderson 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

So, having made a bunch of kit icons and stuff, I just ran into my first funky problem in trying to make a ns_kit7full dbkit. ns_kit7 has 48KHz/24bit samples, and Doggiebox politely pops up a box warning me that he only supports 44.1, and I should convert my sample :) So, my question to Ben: Any plans to support sample rates other than 44.1 (such as, for example 48 :) ?? Failing that, can anyone recommend a good tool to decently batch- convert a _lot_ of WAV files? :) Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/

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