On 29 9 2003 at 6:36 am -0400, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
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 :)
Yeah, eventually. :) The multi-kits idea is a good one, and should be fairly easy to work in. I'm going to focus on improving the single-kit interface first though, then once it's better, look at the extending it for an arbitrary number of kits.
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's a cool idea.
(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 ....)
No there isn't; the current design sucks, I agree. That drum kit drawer is probably going to get scrapped very soon in favour of an in-window collapsable list, in conjunction with the "improved drum grid" stuff.
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.
Yeah I know. Since I've got my new multi-tracking gear, I've been doing a bunch more doggieboxing myself in the last week or two (it's about time eh?!) so I am beginning to appreciate these simple yet significant UI hassles. :)
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?
Great idea; that would be a simple logical extension of the "song map" thing. In other words, instead of having to specify 3 consecutive entries of a given section within the song map, you could instead choose to just "repeat 3x" on a given section. (the result would be exactly the same, but would clutter the song map less)
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.
Good point, that's an obvious preference setting asking to be born. I suppose I should attend to the as-yet-unimplemented setting for "create new songs with X bars initially" thing too. -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca