Topic: Workflow suggestions

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  • #181
    Sardaukar
    Participant

    Hey Fritz,

    I have some important suggestions to ease the music making process:

    Vertical lines in note editor could do with being more apparant (can hardly see them).

    Someone mentioned about the ‘select’ tool. I agree with him. It seems strange having both a select and re-arrange tool, when the re-arrange tool can do both. I often assume I can move a sequence/note, then realise I have the wrong tool selected. I know you can remove it from the main menu, but you can’t from the context menu, which I always use.

    A tool box appearing, on right click (instead of context menu) would be a big plus as well. Pictures are more easily recognisable than reading text, and people do ALOT of tool swapping.

    Ive always prefered hovering the mouse over either end of a sequence/note…waiting for the cursor to change to <-> and for me to re-size. Without me having to touch the keyboard.

    I also tend to hold down ctrl, BEFORE dragging a note/sequence, to copy it. Clicking it…THEN holding ctrl is alien to me. (probally just me, i dunno). And when, the new copy is created, the original copy is still selected, which makes creating loads of notes on the fly a little awkward.

    When resizing a note, (from the right side) and making it shorter, you cant see where is going to end.

    Moving a group selected notes, results in a bounding box to move. Would be so nice to see a transparancy of each individual note instead :).

    And the last thing is. selected a group of notes, then pressing a key to bound the loop points around this group would be sooooo useful. It would be one of my most used keys.

    Thanks for reading. Im beginning to really love the speed and slickness of Podium. Ive used Cubase SL quite extensively…and in all seriousness…Podium is likely to replace it. Please keep up your wonderful work.

    Regards,
    Dan.

    #3328
    duncanparsons
    Participant

    I agree with some of these points..

    A tool box appearing, on right click (instead of context menu) would be a big plus as well. Pictures are more easily recognisable than reading text, and people do ALOT of tool swapping.

    well, rather than toolbox, icons will do me. These can easily be implemented by using owner-draw menus. On menu creation the ownerdraw flag can be specified for each item. Handling the drawing shouldn’t be too much of a problem, especially since icons are already to hand!

    When resizing a note, (from the right side) and making it shorter, you cant see where is going to end.

    I realise that the note goes alpha blended when resizing, which is nice, but could it go a different colour and alpha-blended? this way the whole not can be seen before the final decision is made. I have found myself undersizing, then expanding to the correct size. You could invert the colour, or just invert one of the RGB values to make a difference (this would not interfere with any user prefs…)

    I’ll post more soon!

    DSP

    #3329
    Sardaukar
    Participant

    I have technical question for you fritz, if I may.

    What technology (api/sdk) did you use the produce such slick graphics…is it a well known one…or is it something home grown?

    #3330
    Zynewave
    Keymaster

    What technology (api/sdk) did you use the produce such slick graphics…is it a well known one…or is it something home grown?

    I use http://www.paintlib.de for graphics file loading (the bitmaps you can load in the project settings), and for primitive stuff like blurred resizing of bitmaps etc. Everything else is homegrown.

    #3343
    Zynewave
    Keymaster

    Hi Dan,

    Before studying your suggestions I wanted to finish with the 1.01 release. With that out of the way a few hours ago, I have now considered your suggestions. They are all good suggestions, so I don’t have much to say, except that they are now included in the Future Development topic.

    Frits

    #3346
    duncanparsons
    Participant

    Frits,

    what would also be nice is a ‘note properties’ dialog for manula editting. For instance, selecting a note or group, calling the properties, and reducing all the velocities by 15; or pulling their start positions forward by 30 ticks; or increasing their length by 1 beat; etc.

    Any chance of this finding it’s way onto the list??

    Many Thanks

    your doing a great job!

    Duncan

    #3347
    Zynewave
    Keymaster

    Any chance of this finding it’s way onto the list??

    Sure, I’ll add it to the list right now, although I don’t consider this an important feature.

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