On 10/03/2006 23:44, Sterling Beckwith wrote:
What Sion's suggesting could be a big help. Have long felt need for another level of structural display between db's Sections and Playlist, to allow trial-and-revise work on overall design. His boxes offer a neat solution, provided they can be made fairly foolproof and easy to rearrange.
I had myself been thinking of a similar sort of feature, though with the new "mid-level" blocks (verse1, chorus1, etcs) displayed more as expandable menu items so that the various sections wouldn't scroll off to the right as they do in that example -- though I suppose they could easily end up scrolling off to the bottom still! What I would find useful, when composing and blocking out basic arrangements, would be the ability to define one of these mid-level blocks of Sections (say, a group of Sections making up a "verse") and the copying it and pasting it within the Playlist. I don't _think_ one can currently copy and paste items around within the Playlist, at least not consistently. Then I could easily make a bunch of identical verses and choruses (for example) to see how I liked the basic arrangement, going back later to look inside these blocks to change up individual sections for variety. Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson mailto:cea@carlaz.com http://www.carlaz.com/