acousmod.
Zynewave
duncanparsonsGood call Frits!
Will dl and check shortly 🙂
DSP
acousmodAfter clicking on either sequence or audio events and dragging, the control key can be held to create a unique copy which will be cropped to the event time range.
Phew !
After clicking on events and dragging, the shift key can be held to lock either the time or vertical position of the events depending on the direction of the mouse drag. This can be combined with the control or alt key when dragging copies of events. The shift-lock also works when dragging track headers.
Phew Phew !
Thank you VERY much !
My next work with Podium is going to be far easier to do than the previous one…
Holding the alt key while clicking on a resizable event will start a resize drag action.
Direct resizing WITHOUT any key when the mouse is on the edge in the next build ? 😉
ZynewaveDirect resizing WITHOUT any key when the mouse is on the edge in the next build ?
Why don’t you use the pencil tool for this?
MaxFirst of all I want to say thanks to Frits for this great release.
1.45 is a real breakout to me. Ability to create tracks and events with doubleclick is great. This thing only makes my work ~20% faster. In this case I want to say that we all time after time request some big features in Podium, like offline bounce or rewire support. Of course, this things is important (now, when propellerheads rebirth is free, rewire becomes interesting even for me 😉 ), but even a little improvements is important. So, thanks again, Frits, you make Podium better and better.
I have two questions regarding 1.45 release. When I press shift to enable a marquee selection, cursor is not changing. Why? I think, it would better if the current cursor icon becomes select tool-like when shift is pressed.
The second is the marquee selection behavoir. As I can see, I can only select events when shift is pressed. But sometimes I make a mistake and select more events then I need. Is there a way to fast disselect some of them, without switching to ‘select’ tool?
ZynewaveWhen I press shift to enable a marquee selection, cursor is not changing. Why? I think, it would better if the current cursor icon becomes select tool-like when shift is pressed.
I could introduce a new cursor type that indicates a marquee selection is started. I would only show it once the mouse is clicked though. Otherwise the cursor would change everytime you press shift for any of the other key shortcuts.
Is there a way to fast disselect some of them, without switching to ‘select’ tool?
Ctrl+click should toggle select, both with the select and pencil tools.
Max@Zynewave wrote:
I could introduce a new cursor type that indicates a marquee selection is started. I would only show it once the mouse is clicked though. Otherwise the cursor would change everytime you press shift for any of the other key shortcuts.
That would be nice.
@Zynewave wrote:
Ctrl+click should toggle select, both with the select and pencil tools.
As I can see, I need to disselect events by clicking them one by one with ctrl key pressed? If so, sad. It’s not very useful when editing a sequence with a lot of the notes. 🙄
acousmodWhy don’t you use the pencil tool for this?
Because I don’t like to have to change tools 😉
Audio montage involves to split / resize / select multiple clips and move them all the time. Actually I have to select the cutter to split, the arrow to select and move, the Alt key or the pencil to resize (I could use the pencil tool and ctrl-click to select several events, but it create an empty event when I click to de-select the previous ones…).
Having to select one special tool or adding a modifier key is not only time consuming but above all disturbs the work process by unnecessary actions.
So, I will be very pleased if, some day, I can find in Podium the same simple way to do simple tasks, like in all the softwares I know and have used before.
Is there any programmation problem that prevents the detection of the mouse cursor on the edge of a clip to make it automaticaly act like the resize tool ?
Of course, it is a matter of taste. Personnaly I prefer additionnal keys to separate tools, and no key at all to additionnal keys ! But I understand well that there could be other choices…
ZynewaveI could use the pencil tool and ctrl-click to select several events, but it create an empty event when I click to de-select the previous ones..
You could use the pencil tool to click once on the first event you want to move, which will deselect previous events. Then you can use shift with the pencil tool to select multiple events.
Is there any programmation problem that prevents the detection of the mouse cursor on the edge of a clip to make it automaticaly act like the resize tool ?
The only reason why I don’t do the automatic resize cursor with the select tool, is because this would make it impossible to select and move events that are smaller than the width of the resize border. To solve this I could restrict the resize area to the bottom part of the sequence event box, highligthed by a frame. However this would not be possible with note events.
acousmodThe only reason why I don’t do the automatic resize cursor with the select tool, is because this would make it impossible to select and move events that are smaller than the width of the resize border.
For example Cubase, Tracktion, Live or EnergyXT (and others) do this, and it is not a problem.
They seem to use a fixed pixels size, and since when editing or moving very short events (notes too), we generaly have to zoom to make it good, the events are not more small…
With the horizontal zoom with the mouse wheel like in Tracktion or vertical drag in Cubase / Live, it is extremely easy and fast to do so.
But I don’t contest your reasons, just say that the other way is used in other softwares, and is very efficient to my taste 😉
Must know what Podium’s users would prefer ?
To solve this I could restrict the resize area to the bottom part of the sequence event box, highligthed by a frame.
Yes, it will be ready for the future fade in/out feature, in the upper corners !