January 2006 - 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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The veiled drumbeat
by Dan Costello 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

> the problem still remains ... > I made tests with all the betas from 1E8 to 1E12 - all with no luck. Only other guess I have-- did you switch kits at any point while working with this file? I foggily remember something like this happening to me early on. I'd love to see the file-- please send it to stellaswindow(a)earthlink.net Thanks, Dan

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non accessible drumhits
by Thorsten Kummer 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

Hi folks, I'm struggling with the following problem: - Song: 4/4, 135 bpm - drumkit: Ludwig V2 I can't see and edit some of my previous inserted drum-hits because the maximal zoom stage seems not to be enough for viewing/editing them. I can see the grey squares indicating that there's something but can't access them. I created the stuff a few days ago, wanted to go on yesterday - with no luck. What am I doing wrong? Bye Thorsten

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Re: non accessible drumhits
by Dan Costello 16 Jan '06

16 Jan '06

On Jan 16, 2006, at 10:00 AM, Thorsten wrote: > > I'm struggling with the following problem: > > - Song: 4/4, 135 bpm > - drumkit: Ludwig V2 > > I can't see and edit some of my previous inserted drum-hits... > What am I doing wrong? I've had this happen when I'm at a zoom level that allows me to add triplet rhythms. The fractions just don't work out to display the hits sometimes, even when you think next "wider" zoom level would help. I agree with Charlie, try going back up a level or three and see if they show up. Dan

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Re: Adding audio to Doggiebox Version 2
by Sterling Beckwith 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

> The main issue as I see it is when you have the audio in DB, and for > arguments sake, you want to listen to bars 78 to 82 to see what is > needed. The audio would need to sync here. One for Ben's magic I > guess : - ) I wonder if Ben might not have more important things to do for us. Isn't combining various tracks from various sources--e.g. audio with MIDI, or with DB--what the bigtime sequencing programs like GB, Reason, Live, etc. are all about? Rather than clutter up a great percussion-composing program with extras that don't really do the whole job anyhow, wouldn't it make more sense to let one of the big boys do the synchronizing, and just switch back and forth between the sequencer and DB when needed to tweak the drum parts? -Sterling

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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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