Topic: Preview 2.31: Slide/zoom key shortcuts

Beta9: if preview is turned off you cannot audition the drums clicking on key names (i think this will be solved when you join the editors, though)

@Zynewave wrote:

Another idea I’m considering:

The piano roll and drum map regions share a lot of functionality, so I’m considering removing the drum map region completely, and instead make the “piano roll” region into a “note” region, which will combine the two regions into one. Some of the latest updates to the piano roll have not made it into the drum map editor, and so combining them will ensure that the event editing is similar in both the piano roll and drum map mode.

So, instead of selecting between the “piano roll” and “drum map” editor profiles, there will be one profile, and you then have a “enable drum map” option in the menu button (as introduced in the new drum map region), which will toggle between the piano roll and drum map layout.

Good/bad idea?

For me, it´s of course a good idea…this would be the “Reaper” way 🙂

Trancit

@Zynewave wrote:

I’ve also modified the way that black keys and scale keys are highlighted.

Let me know what you think of this.

Please I need more contrast, I don’t see the guidelines, at least allow define the contrast in Piano Roll option

And if you are going to tweak a little piano roll colours consider using different contrast for each 4 bars as I suggest here: http://www.zynewave.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2286

And again, I’m returning to beta9 because the contrast is too low, this is really importat for my comfort working with Podium without force my eyesight, do it higher or allow customize it, please

@Zynewave wrote:

I’ve added a “timeline grid” color setting to the colors setup dialog. Editing this color is also possible with the track inspector color picker right-click menu.

Thanks you! Anyway I wanted to mean the highlighted keys contrast, but you solved it 😀 (the gridlines colours are useful too)

About the bugs, weird day, the problem with selected events was that I copy them to anoter location and only few of them were copied, and now it works fine. Highlighted blackkeys works fine too. If I can reproduce them I’ll tell you how.

Uhm, it could be that.

I noticed whe you resize notes which lenght are inferior to current snap value relative snap it’s glitchy.

So I’m looking for comments on the note map changes to the piano roll editor, and not the drum map editor.

I’m trying it and it seems ok. Maybe you could allow multiple selection to adjust colour of them, and use the same colour picker that inspector instead a new window with the default (and ugly) Windows’s colour picker.

The note map window is very nice. 8) I agree on the idea of a little color picker in there!

– I sometimes enter scale information, but never use the option to highlight it. Now ‘highlight black keys’ doesn’t do what it says anymore when there’s a scale selected?

– Something unexpected: When simply selecting multiple keys in the note map window, they all will receive the name of the first (topmost) selected key upon clicking OK. Has led to accidents during testing. 😉

Nitpicks: The grid color behaves slightly differently in the editors than in the arrangement view. Looks like they don’t use the exact same timeline fill color. I also don’t like the horizontal note divisions too much.