Doggiebox July 2013

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8 participants
3 discussions

Choose kit doesn't load?
by Carl Edlund Anderson 01 Aug '13

01 Aug '13

I'm having a curious problem in which if I try to open an old dbsong for which I no longer have a dbkit of the expected name, while Doggiebox gives me the option to choose a new dbkit when it opens the Finder-style window for choosing a new kit, nothing appears -- just the little spinning thing down in the lower lefthand corner. There are certainly kits in the folder, it's just not displaying them, or anything else that might be there. You can use the drop-down location choice menu at the top of the menu to move to other folders, but nothing ever appears and the little spinny thing keeps on spinning! Eventually, if you cancel, you get a message telling you you can't open the dbsong because you have to assign a dbkit. The workaround is to make a copy of another kit with the same name that as the expected dbkit in the old dbsong. But it would be better if the option to choose a different kit Just Worked! :) Any ideas? Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/

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Groups for Rides and Hats?
by Carl Edlund Anderson 29 Jul '13

29 Jul '13

Hey all, In dbkits you've put together, which Group do you place ride cymbals in? So far, I've put rides in Group 4, along with high hats for little better reason than I think of using rides in a manner similar to hats. But more recently, in terms of mixing, I have been wondering whether it would be better to put rides in Group 5, where I have placed other cymbals? Would that possibly be more realistic in terms of typical drum mic'ing techniques? (About which I know virtually nothing, being almost entirely a "Doggiebox drummer"! ;)) The question came up because I have been mixing a new recording with DB drums in GarageBand, and I found that for one section where I switched from hats to rides, my rides were pretty low in the mix unless I ramped up the Master Volume controls for the individual ride sample Variants fairly aggressively in the dbkit editor. I haven't tried moving the rides over from Group 4 to Group 5 (wish there was a way to drag and drop Instruments, with all their Variants, between Groups! Or adjust the Master Volume settings for a whole set of Instrument Variants at once!) because I don't want to go through all that work as an experiment :) but I am wondering how this is approached by you others out there ..... Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/

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LOVE doggiebox!
by Randall Avers 29 Jul '13

29 Jul '13

Still haven't found a program that as adaptable as Doggiebox. My duo, Les Freres Meduses just got finished writing a little article about it that will be published in Soundboard magazine. Will it ever come out for PC? Also, I miss the old tempo slidebar in the earlier versions. All the best, Randall

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Doggiebox July 2013