Ben Kennedy wrote:
On 30 8 2004 at 8:37 am -0400, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
Speaking of the playlist, after lots of messing around in DB the other day putting together a new drum part for a song, I found more and more than I wanted to be able to select a group of sections in the playlist, and copy them to somewhere else in the playlist.
You can: select a few entries in the playlist, and option-drag them to where you want to copy them. Just like copying files in the Finder. :)
Well, gosh durnit, I hadn't known that about the Finder either :} I was selecting sections in the play list and smacking away at Cmd-C while DB yipped at me indignantly. Option-drag does it, all right! BTW, is there some way to select a bunch of files and change the tempo on all of them, or to globally change tempo? (I know there's the little tempo slider, but I have difficulty figuring out what tempo I've actually ended up with when using that.) I was working on on a song at one tempo, and decided it was about 10bpm too slow, and had to change the set tempo in all the sections. But I must have missed a clue somewhere, rather like the Option-drag to copy .... Actually, I had another question, which is about whether one could set "tempo overrides" in the playlist that superceded the "stock tempo" of given section list. Like if you had built a section "Verse Pattern" at 120bpm, and you dragged to the playlist and asked to repeat 4 times for the full verse, but set the 4th repeat (in the pattern editing window, maybe) for a tempo of 122 (to speed up into the chorus or something like that). Or perhaps to put "Verse Pattern" in the playlist twice and set the first instance to repeat 3 times and nudge up the tempo only on the second instance to play once (getting the same effect). This sort of thing may start to stack up DB's caluculating responsibilities, I suppose, or be needlessly complicated. But I was looking for a cheap way to vary tempos on sections without making effectively independant version of the section that vary only by tempo (since if I then change one pattern, I have to remember to change its "relatives" too, and I'm not clever enough to remember to do that all the time :) Oh! Another random idea I thought of while Doggieboxing this weekend: Some feature that, say, would take a bar of 60bpm and cunningly convert it into 2 bars of 120bpm? And perhaps vice versa? Admittedly, thats a pretty odd and trivial kinda feature, but I thought I would mention it. Oh, oh! ;) And another thing. The "mono/stereo" indicator on my install of 1C10 looks kinda odd, in that even when playing stereo one of the earphones is greyed out, though the "M" does darken up when mono output is selected. I wonder if that hiccuped slightly or whether its just me going blind as I stare at the screen? Cheers, Carl Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/