Hi Mike I saw your mail earlier today, and was considering "warning" you about the new build. I guess you found out for yourself :-P The new editors are hardly very intuitive -- but one I got it worked out, it seemed like a good idea -- being able to just "repeat" various parts throughout the song using scripting, rather than having to cut and paste you way through the song. I guess u make up the various parts of the song in the section editor -- verse, chorus, etc -- and then actually build them (add drums) in the layout editor. Next step is to deciede the running order of the song in the layout editor: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bride chorus x 2 or whatever. But as I got into it, I got frustrated because as I was making changes to a part of the song, the change would be global. To me, working like this gets confusing, because I tend to put in different fills between parts. this is very tricky to do in the new version -- you end up having to make verse 1,2,3,4 and chorus 1,2,3,4... this is a logistical nightmare -- just cutting and pasting like I did in the pervios build seemed so much easier... but maybe I`m not doing this right... also: the section arent very clearly marked when you show "all" in the layout sections. Some kind of color coding or something to that effect would be very helpful.
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Mike Carlyle <mcarlyle@charter.net> 29.02.2004 18:01:36 >>> I'm completely stumped by version 1.1B (build 3)'s section editor and layout editor. I get the fact that I can choose sections for playback and that is helpful, but it is offset by the fact that I can no longer
add sections or insert bars. Previously, I could highlight some bars, choose "new section" in the section area down on the left, and my selected bars became a new section. Now, when I do this I get a blank new section with no bars. I can't add bars to the new section. I can't add a new "layout" either, whatever that is. Is a layout a section? I don't get it. When I add a new "layout", I end up with a duplicate of the one before it. As I understand it, this version produces a song file format that is not compatible with earlier versions. Do I need to grab the current release and start over? I find this confounding User Interface very frustrating. It's killed my inspiration for today. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zygoat Doggiebox discussion list - <http://www.doggiebox.com> To unsubscribe, view archives or change your options: <http://lists.zygoat.ca/mailman/listinfo/doggiebox> ***************************************************************** Denne fotnoten bekrefter at denne e-postmeldingen ble skannet av MailSweeper og funnet fri for virus. ***************************************************************** This footnote confirms that this email message has been swept by MailSweeper for the presence of computer viruses. *****************************************************************