On <http://www.doggiebox.com/beta/> Ben wrote:
improved drum grid (expandable in 3 modes as discussed on mailing list)
Does this include the idea about using multiple kits in a single dbsong? That would be _sooooooo_ cool :) I like the idea of dueling drummers :) I've been trying to thinking about my programming in terms of "where can one drummer's hands go", but even then wanted to compose a part that should really be handled by multiple percussionists, since it involves hitting 5 or 6 things at once (which will have even a very nimble drummer running out of limbs :) Hmmm, I wonder if it would be possible to implement a "master stereo" feature that would let you set how the existing stereo placement of kits is interpolated when using multiple kits. That is, if Kit 1 usually has the crash 50% off to the right in the stereo, and then you added Kit 2, you could adjust the "placement" of the two kits to imitate Kit 1 being no longer "in the center" but "on the left" some overall percentage with Kit 2 being "on the right" some overall percentage (meaning Kit 1 overall stereo center was now shifted to the left, thus making the crash was no longer actually 50% off to the right as it would be if Kit 1 were by itself ...). I don't think I've described that very well, but perhaps the idea come across :) (On a tangent, is there a way to change the size of the tab/window for the kit list? As the kit I use grows in size an complexity, I'm finding it a drag to keep scrolling up and down the list of toys ....)
context menu for changing drum variants and velocity? (maybe in 1.0.x series)
Now that I'm using more variants, I find that this would be very very handy. It gets very slow moving back and forth to grab different hi hat variants or whatever.
search and replace on a per-drum basis (replace occurences of this drum with that one) search and replace on an arbitrary basis (replace occurrences of this pattern[s] with these ones) dynamics tool, e.g. apply fades or crescendos to certain drums across a range of bars controllable output groupings and folddown, with support for splitting up for exporting (e.g. a snare track independent of everything else) selection and cut/copy/paste support for parts of measures (e.g. select only a couple beats of a given pattern)
Those would all be pretty cool too :) particularly the more detailed copy'n'paste. I often find myself getting a quick little 1-beat roll or something the way I like it and wanting to be able to paste it around to other places :) I thought of something else yesterday, really an outgrowth of the way I've seen people notate on-line drum tab. Would it be possible to implement a feature by which you could loop a given measure or group of measures (a section, basically) within a dbsong? That is, imagine a simple song structure which had an 2-measure intro, a 2-measure pattern than repeated 20 times, and a 2 measure outro. You could do the whole song in 6 measures by setting the central 2-measure group to repeat 20 times after the intro played and before continuing to the outro. And then, if you decided to alter that repeating pattern, you could make your change once in the 2-measure "template" without making it 19 other times as well (though the planned arbitrary search and replace would help there too). Another possibly useful little twiddle -- perhaps a preference that would set the default "expansion"? So far, I've mostly been working in a "16th-note view", which means I need to manually expand the file view several times when I open a file, or when I start a new song. It would be nice to be able to ask Doggiebox to pop things open directly expanded to 16th notes or 32nd notes or whatever the user was mostly working in. And looking to that long view, I'll keep voicing my support for being able to use Doggiebox as a MIDI slave or master thingygummy. (No, I've never worked with MIDI much, but it looks very very handy for syncing things up). Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson mailto:cea@carlaz.com http://www.carlaz.com/