Hey all, A new build is up at <http://www.doggiebox.com/distribution/Doggiebox- 1E7.tbz>. What's new: • Fixed the immensely frustrating bug introduced in the last build where drums would be put in the wrong places, seemingly at ranodm, when clicking in the pattern editor. • A temporary "Patrickcarl" diagnostic message now replaces the last build's "Carlpatrick" warning, which was not working as intended. This time, any null drum events will be replaced with a temporary unnamed drum which you will then be forced to reconcile to an existing drum. Please report if you see this alert message -- particularly if you find it recurring on any existing songs (after seeing it once) or on any new songs created with this or later builds. • New triangle (beat selection) and i-beam mouse cursors, as well as improved insertion point/selection handling in the pattern editor. -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca
On 10-Feb-2005 05:40, Ben Kennedy wrote:
A new build is up at <http://www.doggiebox.com/distribution/Doggiebox- 1E7.tbz>.
Hurrah!
What's new: • Fixed the immensely frustrating bug introduced in the last build where drums would be put in the wrong places, seemingly at ranodm, when clicking in the pattern editor.
Double hurrah! In celebration, I quickly whipped up a dbsong collecting some "early rock" patterns during breakfast, and I didn't have any trouble with the cursor (or with weird crashes, so far). I stuck this dbsong on <http://www.carlaz.com/music/rhythm.html>; it's at the top, and a bunch of very old dbsongs with other sample patterns stretch below it. Yes, I know, it's better to do compose from scratch, but hey .... I kinda think I'll slowly change out the other old dbsongs for new-style dbsongs with their pattern browsers and playlists ....
• A temporary "Patrickcarl" diagnostic message now replaces the last build's "Carlpatrick" warning, which was not working as intended.
Hopefully this will kill the problem, or we'll need to start making anagrams from the names or something :) I'll keep an eye out for it, though I don't think I've popped open my affected dbsongs yet ... Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/
On 10-Feb-2005 11:13, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
In celebration, I quickly whipped up a dbsong collecting some "early rock" patterns during breakfast, and I didn't have any trouble with the cursor (or with weird crashes, so far). I stuck this dbsong on <http://www.carlaz.com/music/rhythm.html>; it's at the top [of the page]
I should note that I pulled these patterns from that Drummer's Bible book, and the notation there indicated accented hits which I've tried to replicate with samples of different velocities. The dbsong was made using the ns_kit7-based dbkit I've been experimenting with, but there's only a distinction of accented or not-accented amongst the snare, hat, and ride hits, so any kit that can do those will preserve the feel (such as it is!). The book generally presented standard patterns using hi-hat, and suggested playing the hi-hat lines on ride (fair enough) or snare (!), the latter being, apparently, characteristic of "early rock'n'roll" drumming. All that snare sounds odd to my uneducated ears, but those snare-heavy patterns might be good as the starting points for composing fills or something. I have no idea how authentic or useful these patterns really are in practice, but there are lots of little triplety things going on in them that I probably wouldn't have thought about a lot on my own. Ideas, ideas .... Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/
On 10 2 2005 at 7:51 am -0500, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
I have no idea how authentic or useful these patterns really are in practice, but there are lots of little triplety things going on in them that I probably wouldn't have thought about a lot on my own. Ideas, ideas ....
Nice work Carl, this should prove useful somehow. It underscores how useful it would be to have a little library window accessible globally within DB from where you could grab and drag frequently used patterns, huh... Speaking of the triplety things though, this has illuminated another bug in the current builds: if you open up your file in DB 1.2 and play back e.g. the Slow Blues pattern, you'll find that the hi-hats seem to stutter a couple of places in the last three beats (while they work fine in 1E7). Seems that the legacy format is not quite being created correctly. I'll look into that. -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca
On 2/10/05 6:13 AM, "Carl Edlund Anderson" <cea@carlaz.com> wrote:
On 10-Feb-2005 05:40, Ben Kennedy wrote:
A new build is up at <http://www.doggiebox.com/distribution/Doggiebox- 1E7.tbz>.
I have another item for the wish list... Could we get a preference option that allows the user to "open last song", in addition to "create new untitled song"? Is this too picky?
Hurrah!
What's new: Fixed the immensely frustrating bug introduced in the last build where drums would be put in the wrong places, seemingly at ranodm, when clicking in the pattern editor.
Double hurrah! In celebration, I quickly whipped up a dbsong collecting some "early rock" patterns during breakfast, and I didn't have any trouble with the cursor (or with weird crashes, so far).
I stuck this dbsong on <http://www.carlaz.com/music/rhythm.html>; it's at the top, and a bunch of very old dbsongs with other sample patterns stretch below it. Yes, I know, it's better to do compose from scratch, but hey .... I kinda think I'll slowly change out the other old dbsongs for new-style dbsongs with their pattern browsers and playlists ....
A temporary "Patrickcarl" diagnostic message now replaces the last build's "Carlpatrick" warning, which was not working as intended.
Hopefully this will kill the problem, or we'll need to start making anagrams from the names or something :)
I'll keep an eye out for it, though I don't think I've popped open my affected dbsongs yet ...
Cheers, Carl
On 10 2 2005 at 7:59 am -0500, Mike wrote:
Could we get a preference option that allows the user to "open last song", in addition to "create new untitled song"?
My only reservation with this is that it would complicate the Prefs with an obscure option. However if there is demand, let it be. Would anybody else find this useful? -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca
Understood. It never hurts to ask, though! On 2/10/05 2:34 PM, "Ben Kennedy" <ben@zygoat.ca> wrote:
On 10 2 2005 at 7:59 am -0500, Mike wrote:
Could we get a preference option that allows the user to "open last song", in addition to "create new untitled song"?
My only reservation with this is that it would complicate the Prefs with an obscure option. However if there is demand, let it be. Would anybody else find this useful?
-ben
Or "Open Recent"? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike" <mcarlyle@charter.net> To: "Carl Edlund Anderson" <cea@carlaz.com>; "Doggiebox List" <doggiebox@lists.zygoat.ca> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 12:59 PM Subject: Re: [Doggiebox] 1E7 posted On 2/10/05 6:13 AM, "Carl Edlund Anderson" <cea@carlaz.com> wrote:
On 10-Feb-2005 05:40, Ben Kennedy wrote:
A new build is up at <http://www.doggiebox.com/distribution/Doggiebox- 1E7.tbz>.
I have another item for the wish list... Could we get a preference option that allows the user to "open last song", in addition to "create new untitled song"? Is this too picky?
Hurrah!
What's new: ? Fixed the immensely frustrating bug introduced in the last build where drums would be put in the wrong places, seemingly at ranodm, when clicking in the pattern editor.
Double hurrah! In celebration, I quickly whipped up a dbsong collecting some "early rock" patterns during breakfast, and I didn't have any trouble with the cursor (or with weird crashes, so far).
I stuck this dbsong on <http://www.carlaz.com/music/rhythm.html>; it's at the top, and a bunch of very old dbsongs with other sample patterns stretch below it. Yes, I know, it's better to do compose from scratch, but hey .... I kinda think I'll slowly change out the other old dbsongs for new-style dbsongs with their pattern browsers and playlists ....
? A temporary "Patrickcarl" diagnostic message now replaces the last build's "Carlpatrick" warning, which was not working as intended.
Hopefully this will kill the problem, or we'll need to start making anagrams from the names or something :)
I'll keep an eye out for it, though I don't think I've popped open my affected dbsongs yet ...
Cheers, Carl
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