Another idea I have would be scriptable songs. This would allow the composer to set repeated bars, repeated sections, change the b.p.m. on the fly, to allow even more complex arrangements. I would also like to see programmable tasks to allow the user to script actions he uses most, such as setting up a song at 120 bpm with for bars in 7/8. This would be great for teaching applications.
Also; integrating everything into a singe-window-interface is a bad idea. I feel that floating windows achieve greater flexibility for people that use multiple monitors, or people without enough monitor space for all of the tools to be displayed at a time.
Another idea I have would be scriptable songs. This would allow the composer to set repeated bars, repeated sections, change the b.p.m. on the fly, to allow even more complex arrangements. I would also like to see programmable tasks to allow the user to script actions he uses most, such as setting up a song at 120 bpm with for bars in 7/8. This would be great for teaching applications.
Also; integrating everything into a singe-window-interface is a bad idea. I feel that floating windows achieve greater flexibility for people that use multiple monitors, or people without enough monitor space for all of the tools to be displayed at a time.
Another idea stemming from this idea would be different preset configurations of toolsets for different tasks that could be easily switched to and from, most likely accessed from quick keys:
• Basic viewing and listening to different sections: - need to scrub easily through song, perhaps implement some scrubbing window • editing -quick keys for setting up tools to modify and create beats within a section, this would closely tie into the scrubbing window for quick access to the desired section.
I in this mode of thought towards doggiebox right now, and I understand how conceptual it may sound, but just throwing out some ideas.
Also! possible export into formal stave notation?
regards, Mike Listrom
On 22 2 2004 at 7:47 pm -0500, Mike Listrom wrote:
Another idea I have would be scriptable songs. [...] I would also like to see programmable tasks [...]
Interesting ideas. So essentially, Applescript'ability. I'll add that to the wish list.
Also; integrating everything into a singe-window-interface is a bad idea. I feel that floating windows achieve greater flexibility for people that use multiple monitors, or people without enough monitor space for all of the tools to be displayed at a time.
Which components would you put in floating windows? The drum kit palette is an obvious one I guess. Anything else? Too many floaters would confuse things though I think.
• Basic viewing and listening to different sections:
- need to scrub easily through song, perhaps implement some scrubbing
window
Yeah, this will be improved eventually, including such basic things as "play from cursor", etc.
• editing -quick keys for setting up tools to modify and create beats within a section, this would closely tie into the scrubbing window for quick access to the desired section.
Can you elaborate on this?
Also! possible export into formal stave notation?
That could be a doozy. It would require a lot of work and research which is kind of orthoganal to the main functions of the app, and which other commercial tools do pretty well. It would be neat, but unless another developer would like to take charge of it, I don't see it happening in the immediate term.
-ben