On 30 10 2003 at 11:49 am -0500, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
What I don't understand what effect the "no decay" export has? Where does Doggiebox now stop exporting? For example If the final sample in your dbsong is, say, and giant ringing gong hit :) with a long decay, does Doggiebox now cut this off at some point in the export process?
Yes, exactly. Until this beta, Doggiebox was "smart enough" to let the gong decay (let its samples finish playing completely) before ending the file. What happens now is that the file stops dead at the end of the last bar. Actually, now "what you hear is what you get" -- due to some revisions in the playback scheduling and tracking in this build, you'll notice that all sound stops abruptly when the end of the playback region is reached. Export will do the same thing. This was requested by people like Tor and Lee who want to export loops of prescribed length, without having to edit them down afterwards. Having said this, I'm noticing there is still something skewed a bit with the math -- exporting one bar of 4/4 at 120 bpm is giving a file of about 2.085 seconds or somesuch, instead of 2.000 as one would expect. I'm going to look at that in a moment. -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca