On 17 Dec 2007, at 21:20 , Ben Kennedy wrote:
Here's a Christmas- (or other choice holiday-) season gift for you all, at long last!
Oh, any other gift will have a hard time beating this one! There's life in the old dog yet! :)
Please make backup copies of your song and drum kit files before re- saving them with this version of Doggiebox, particularly if running on an Intel-based Mac. With this in mind, please test to make sure that files you create with this build still open and work properly in Doggiebox 1.3.1. Please also verify sound file importing and exporting and note any problems with compatibility of output files or the user interface.
As it happens, just this past week I've just pulled out Doggiebox for for the first time in a awhile, the first recording project I've done since a recent transatlantic move, a kind of "folk metal" version of ye olde Scottish Border ballad "Twa Corbies". I did out all the drums in DB and exported them to a basic stereo AIFF file while building up the rest of the song. Yesterday I went back and made multiple versions of the dbsong file, erasing all but a specific drum group (cymbals, hats, snares, toms, kicks) to give me 5 AIFFs for the different groups, so I could put them on different tracks and individually control levels, compression, etc. I now face the challenge of learning how to do this -- never really having attempted it before :) -- but I'll reiterate the oft repeated observation that a feature to select a specific drum or group of drums for output direct from DB (without lots of tedious mucking about with the eraser) would be very cool. :) But, having now downloaded the new beta, I'll back up my files and carry on with it from here! :)
The move to Univeral Binary has meant increasing the minimum supported Mac OS version from 10.3 (Panther) to 10.4 (Tiger). [...] The playback problems under Leopard still persist for the moment, but I will be addressing those next.
I'd already decided no way I'm moving to Leopard until Doggiebox is happy there. :)
I appreciate the words that several of you have sent to me and the list lately. As stated previously I've been busy juggling new opportunities recently but I do hope to become more involved again.
Rock on, Doggiebox! :) Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/