From: Sterling Beckwith <beckwith@yorku.ca> Subject: [Doggiebox] Re: keyboard shortcuts
...by allowing users to assemble their own custom kit (or kits) easily for each new piece, choosing the particular set of drums and velocities required from a mega-library that includes all currently accessible sounds, and assigning each of those chosen sounds to specific computer keys in whatever logical way makes sense to the user?
You can already do this, sort of... You can build your own drum set from any batch of sounds (existing sounds within other kits, computer sounds, kitchen sink klinks, vocal noises...) and if you want to go to the trouble of labeling each sound as a unique "drum type" you can assign it a key that will work under any circumstance (avoiding the issue I've encountered with drum type variants not playing nice with the other variants on the playground). Then you could just sit there typing in names out of the phone book, and see how it sounds.
I suppose the next big question would likely be: How to enable said users to PLAY actual music on their custom keyboard drumset, either stepwise or in real time, and have the resulting pattern recorded, not just as an audio file or a MIDI file, but in a format that could then be saved, edited, and eventually translated visually into Doggiebox notation on the DB grid?
Once you figure out how to translate and save this to a MIDI file, you could go back and edit to the nynes in a MIDI editor. However I don't think DB parses MIDI files into DB files... correct? Only DB to MIDI, right? By the way, that's a pretty weird idea, Sterling. I think I like you. DC