At 22:06 22-07-03, Ben Kennedy wrote:
Here's a preview of one of my plans which I am going to try working up shortly: a) remove the "5 position" grid limitation and make it so that there are a user-definable number of grid positions (editable in the drum kit). b) make it possible to adjust the relationship and ordering of all elements of the drum kit, insofar as what drums might share which grid positions and layout.
This would be very cool, though I can see benefits to people trying to adhere to general "drum kit UI guidelines" in terms of what kinds of drums/sounds, generally, one might assign to different positions. That will ease swapping kits in and out.
c) create a toggle-able setting in the song editor for how the drum kit is presented, switching between three modes: i) "show all", which lists the entire kit in the margin with each drum in its own grid position, a la Virtual Drummer ii) "show current", which is similar but hides all positions where there are no drums currently in use in the song. iii) "show condensed", equivalent to the way things currently work, where various drums may share the same grid position if they do not conflict. In all three cases, there would be a direct visual alignment between the drum name/info and the gridline in the song editor which corresponds to it. [...]
Extending on this, we could then support an arbitrary number of kits in the song whose instruments you could hide/reveal with disclosure triangles or whatever.
Yes, that would be great, and very much along the lines I had been thinking :) I had another idea which someone else may well have already suggested, and if so, I'll just add my voice in support :) Would it be possible to have some way of selecting "horizontally"? (For example, selecting to copy the bass drum pattern from the lowest line in the editor, but leave all the rest of the higher lines alone? Similarly, would it be possible to introduce a means of selecting "vertically" within a bar (i.e. selecting everything in the 3rd and 4th beats of a 4/4 measure, but leaving the first two beats alone?)? Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson mailto:cea@carlaz.com http://www.carlaz.com/