Happy Halloween all,
Hot on the heals of 1A22, here's a new one for you to drive: http:// www.doggiebox.com/distribution/Doggiebox-1A23.sit
There are two principal changes since wednesday's build:
1. Thanks to the diversity of opinion on the decay issue, I've thrown in a new preference setting. The default is to maintain the previous behaviour (automatically letting decay play out), and people who want more precise control should turn it off. Is that a reasonable default? The preference affects both playback and exporting.
2. I've tracked down the timing bug, and now when I export 16 bars of 4/4 at 120bpm, it comes out as 16.000 seconds instead of 15.8391 or whatever it was before. :) Thanks for drawing my attention to this. What happened was that due to an off-by-one error, the last beat of every bar was being inadvertently shortened by a fraction of time equal to the smallest per-beat subdivision (about 1/24th of a beat). Since I don't do loops, and the difference was otherwise imperceivable to the ear, I was unaware until it was raised recently.
-ben
While driving today I remembered a previous discussion about other features to be implemented The one in particular I was thinking about was the ability to export individual drum tracks (such as just snares) out of a DB song. For those working with loops in sequencers or anyone using a sequencer this feature is incredibly useful. Reverb, delay and other effects sound horrible on Bass Drums with deep heavy bass. Being able to have separate tracks for your drums gives you great control over the final sound of a drum mix. This is also extremely useful for applying compression.... Anyway the simple solution as well as an intuitive one would be to have 'mute' and 'solo' buttons on each of the drum's tracks (or just a 'mute' button). Also the number of tracks is limiting to me. I often use multiple types of Hi Hats and having all of these go to one track was frustrating, especially as the track wouldn't clamp them all and I had some open hi hats ringing over the top of closed Hi Hats. I'm full of ideas and suggestions, so If I'm overbearing, please excuse me.
Sincerely,
Doug
On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 04:41 PM, Ben Kennedy wrote:
Happy Halloween all,
Hot on the heals of 1A22, here's a new one for you to drive: http:// www.doggiebox.com/distribution/Doggiebox-1A23.sit