Doggiebox July 2006

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Universal binary for Intel Macs?
by Sage 02 May '07

02 May '07

It occurs to me that no one has said anything about support for the new Intel Macs. Is there a plan to compile Doggiebox as a universal binary? Has it been done already and nobody's said anything?

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Re: [Doggiebox] Feature request - mute drum tracks
by Carl Edlund Anderson 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

On 11/07/2006 23:36, Michael Carlyle wrote: > I see that the long-standing feature request, formerly known as "the > ability to export individual drums to separate tracks" has resurfaced > and has been renamed the MUTE FEATURE. > If you think about it... it's a more efficient approach to be able to > SELECTIVELY EXPORT, rather than MUTE. > In other words, it's easier to select the drums you want, rather than > all of the ones you don't. Selecting for what you want to hear might be, then, what's called "soloing" in mixing desk parlance? Is the thought that selecting given drums should effect what you hear only in an exported file, or also when playing from within Doggiebox? My vote would be both (simpler that way). And I agree that if one is planning to export most drums to their own individual tracks (for later importation to a multitrack audio editor like GB or Logic or something), then selecting what you want to hear is probably easier than selecting what you don't want to hear. Cheers, Carl ps - I've been working on a new rock song in GB using exclusively Doggiebox for the drums. It's only a "first draft", with much of the drum part consisting of repeated basic sections except in a few places where I already had an idea about something different. My intention is to go back and bit by bit tweak things around from here. Luckily, this is really easy in Doggiebox -- it's rather harder to tweak my limited ability to sing :) Still, it's not a lot of work with Doggiebox to get a pretty decent and usable drum part for a demo: <http://www.carlaz.com/music/Words_to_the_Wind.mp3> -- Carl Edlund Anderson mailto:cea@carlaz.com http://www.carlaz.com/

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Re: [Doggiebox] Feature request - mute drum tracks On 11/07/2006 23:36, Michael Carlyle wrote: I see that the long-standing feature request, formerly known as "the ability to export individual drums to separate tracks" has resurfaced and has been renamed the MUTE FEATURE. If you think about it... it's a more efficient approach to be able to SELECTIVELY EXPORT, rather than MUTE. In other words, it's easier to select the drums you want, rather than all of the ones you don't. Selecting for what you want to hea
by Sion Morris 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Hi Carl That's excellent - you prog-monster :) Liked this and thought it worth some comments. The best and most professional job you've done to date I think. All the instruments are mixed really well and there's a lot of atmosphere and power in there. I think you've done well with the db drums - especially the snare bass combination - that sounds to me like a real drummer and fits the other elements perfectly. I know you'll be tweaking the db on this - so to my ears the bits that need work are: The super-fast hi-hat start before the 4 slower ones and snare start. Perhaps a kind of soft rising cymbal would work well here (Fleetwood Mac, Albatross style) (keeping the 4 slower beats). I don't know how easy that is with ns-kit, but I think it would more natural feel to the rising pace of the start. I'd be tempted to put a second strike of the crash cymbal (or other crash cymbal) on the second bass drum beat in the second bar - so it fits in with the bass/guitar. ( |x------|x-x----| or something like that) I like the idea of the ride at 7:18, but for some reason it sounds a bit distracting to me. Maybe its a bit high in the mix or you need to drop a few strikes where the 'real' drummer would be hitting the snare. Or maybe a different ride sound is needed? Just some suggestions. Looking forward to hearing v2 with the other tweaked drums you have planned anyway. All the best Sion ----------------------------------------- Sion Morris Liverpool www.cinnamondesign.co.uk/music/music.html ------------------------------------------- > ps - I've been working on a new rock song in GB using exclusively > Doggiebox for the drums. It's only a "first draft", with much of the > drum part consisting of repeated basic sections except in a few places > where I already had an idea about something different. My > intention is > to go back and bit by bit tweak things around from here. Luckily, this > is really easy in Doggiebox -- it's rather harder to tweak my limited > ability to sing :) Still, it's not a lot of work with Doggiebox to > get > a pretty decent and usable drum part for a demo: > <http://www.carlaz.com/music/Words_to_the_Wind.mp3> >

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inspector and tempo
by Håkon Pettersen 15 Jul '06

15 Jul '06

I thought i remembered that it should be possible to choose - in the inspector - which beat that is counted (quarter, eight and so on), but i didn't manage to make it pop up to do the selection, [iBook trackpad:] not by clicking, double clicking or control-clicking, but by control-doubleclicking is sort of flashes and opens. It works perfectly though, by two-finger-clicking enabled by iScroll2. Anyway, problem solved. Request: I would like it if the menu appeared simply by clicking the note. I would also like if the chosen tempo is permanent by default, so that it is displayed as 88bpm counted by quarters, even though the signature is 7/8. What I have written below was my problem until i solved it. --------------------------------------- I am still having problems with odd time signatures and tempo. I have one bar of 3/4 in 88bpm counting the quarters of course. I want that same bar to be 7/8 still at 88bpm (still quarters). I highlight the bar and in the inspector I write 7 instead of 3. The tempo is then 205 quarters per minute. I change the 4 to be 8 so that the signature is 7/8, then the tempo is 103 eights. To get it as I want, I must now change the bpm to 176 which is the double of 88. I don't see the logic in this. What I have described so far isn't really a big problem, since it's quite fast dealt with, but if I have a full song or section with many mixed signatures (lets say every other bar 4/4 and 7/8) and want to increase or decrease the overall tempo I can only do it one bar at a time. ------------------------------------------

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midi files
by David Weisinger 11 Jul '06

11 Jul '06

this might seem a backward question, as most people would use doggiebox to either create a midi file to import and use some other wiz bang software to output the file as good drum sounds or export the audio (and I've found that the drum samples on doggiebox for a standard kit are very good), but I was wondering if there is any way of importing a midi file into doggiebox that I created somewhere else ? David __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Pushing the Envelope
by Sterling Beckwith 02 Jul '06

02 Jul '06

Dear Fellow Boxers: MONTREAL DRUMFEST 2006 takes place November 10-12. Shouldn't Canada's own DOGGIEBOX be the hit of the show? So why don't we: A) Encourage Ben Kennedy to attend, either as a presenter, or an exhibitor, or both. B) Send him all our best ideas for improving the product without delay, and urge him to incorporate them in the next version, to be ready by then. C) Make sure he has an ample supply of killer examples to show off the product and demonstrate its potential, by providing him with copies of the best musical results produced so far using Doggiebox. My point is, if we want this product to survive and keep improving, we have to do our share NOW to get it a wider MARKET and more USERS. Otherwise, there's no incentive for our presiding genius to keep at it, and like so so many other neat ideas, it will eventually just dwindle and die, mailing list and all. How about it, folks? -Sterling

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Play in Logic plays Doggiebox or vice versa, how to?
by Håkon Pettersen 02 Jul '06

02 Jul '06

Hi! [Play in Logic plays Doggiebox or vice versa, how to?] Is this at all possible? So if i have three bars on loop in Logic Express, and the same three bars on loop in doggiebox, how can i play them in sync? Thanks, Håkon

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