On 28,06,02 at 1:39 pm -0400, peepniks@mac.com wrote:
your kit is cool. it's a nice departure from the slick kits i'm always working with. i mean that in the best way. i'll have to submit a real smacky kit for the instant pop songsters out there.
thanks... heh, yeah I know what you mean. 8)
I think I will implement a preferences option to make this the default behaviour. It is not the initial default, however, because I suspected that such "smartness" would confuse a new user trying to understand the relationship between the editor and the selection in the drum kit list.
not to debate with the creator. but... i don't think auto-select by default is counter intuitive at all. it falls in line with auto erase features of simple graphics programs et. al.
That's true, I tend to agree with you... however, when I showed the app to a friend a couple of weeks ago and he began to click around, he seemed to be confused by what was going on. Of course, the docs weren't written by that point, so perhaps if the auto-select behaviour is the default, and you've had the opportunity to read the docs and understand the idea/ function behind the grid and grouping layout, it might make perfect sense. hmm.
like a hardcore lab tester i have to submit some knit picking. i'd say that the option to select more subdivisions leaves something to be desired. probably something i'd like to see as a button in the editor itself.
You're talking about the expand/collapse (zoom) function yes? So maybe a pair of "-"/"+" buttons next to the pattern editor is what you're after? Sounds like a good idea. I was in the habit of using the command-minus and command-plus on the keyboard, but at first such operation is not obvious.
consecutive clicks over a single grid point would cycle through that individual instruments variables. e.g. - one click = closed hat, two clicks = mid hats, three clicks = open hats
Yeah, I agree with you fully, that's probably the way to do it. I was also thinking a context-popup that would list variants for the current drum, but toggling though would likely be faster and easier.
What about erasing? click = closed hat, click = open hat, click = nothing? That would leave the behaviour consistent with drums that have only one variant. Another option is to have e.g. option-click erase the drum, but then the behaviour would be counter-intuitive for one-variant drums (e.g. bass drum: click = normal bass drum, click = ...normal bass drum again, bad)
16th notes in a 6 figure with 12 grid seperations had me straining my eyes. none of that's your fault though. i'm just yacking now.
Yes I know what you mean...
As should be evident from the time signature support, I *do* want to make the interface as visually usable (and consistent with normal musical theory) as possible, so suggestions to improve this kind of thing are welcome.
-ben