March 2006 - Doggiebox - lists.zygoat.ca

re: boxes
by Sterling Beckwith 13 Mar '06

13 Mar '06

What Sion's suggesting could be a big help. Have long felt need for another level of structural display between db's Sections and Playlist, to allow trial-and-revise work on overall design. His boxes offer a neat solution, provided they can be made fairly foolproof and easy to rearrange. -Sterling

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boxes
by Sion Morris 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

Hi Ben I use db a lot and have been thinking about the way I use it and the way songs and sections could be organised more graphically in the playlist. I don't know if anyone else feels that it can be difficult sometimes to keep track of the song structure. I find that I either make a whole track in one go with many variations which is then difficult to edit later, or I just do an easily editable track but with no variations. My suggestion is to show the song structure as it currently is, but to show the sections used in the playlist elements as blocks - you could then instantly see for example that the intro is one block of 4 bars, the chorus, 4 ; verse, 4 etc. The blocks could be labeled numerically and with shortened labels so the user can keep track of where each bit is in relation to everything else. You could then make as many variations as you like in the sections box and still have a complete overview of the song I've photoshopped a rough visual of my idea for you to look at here: http://82.42.121.47/~sion/Files/music/Doggieboxsuggestion.jpg Cheers Sion Morris Liverpool www.cinnamondesign.co.uk/music/music.html -------------------------------------------

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1.3 is out!
by Ben Kennedy 09 Mar '06

09 Mar '06

Yall, After almost a year and a half since the last official release, 1.3 is finally on the public shelf. Download here and share with all your friends: <http://www.doggiebox.com/distribution/Doggiebox.dmg> Notable changes since the last (1E13) beta include a pasting bug reported by Charlie, as well as extensive updates to the documentation, which is also now set up to open in the Apple Help Viewer. And now, new and good things begin... enjoy, -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca

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