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Hello, I don’t have any problem using 2.2.9 vst

I like the behavior of only a single click in the browser to preview the sound.

I have my samples organized in folders as Kick, Clap, Bass, Bongo, etc (as the most of people) and 99.9% of times I only must add one sample each time of each folder. Sometimes I had to add two bongos, then I search one i like and I add it, and then i must search the other.

Reaper has an autoplay button in the bottom of the browser that I always had on. Maybe you could add a browser menu switch option as “Single click to preview samples”. It’s easy and fast. 🙂

Another problem with browser is that if it’s focused space bar doesn’t work.

Browser will be really useful when it supports drag and drop to VSTi, as samplers or drumsamplers, i’ll remember you this when you update it.

Thanks you Fritz, you cannot wonder how many time I’m going to save thanks to have close to my hand the ignore snap and relative snap option. Bye Reaper.

I didn’t know that feature 😀 I’ll try to fit it in my workflow.

And middle click while performing any drag operation? It seems that it doesn’t do nothing, and it doesn’t interact with other Podium function. I hope this will be a wise mouse shorcut 😉 I don’t want lose agility while working!

@Zynewave wrote:

Reassigning Shift+Alt for x/y position drag lock, as I suggested earlier in this topic, will not work. In the arrangement editor you would press and hold Shift+Alt while dragging, as a combo for dragging a phantom copy of a sequence/sound (Alt), and lock the drag direction (Shift) at the same time. There are just limits to how much functionatliy can be piled onto the Shift+Control+Alt keys.

That’s a pity 🙁

How about I reassign the shortcut key for snap on/off to A instead of T? That should make it easier to reach when you have your hand near the Shift/Ctrl/Alt keys. Note that A would still toggle snap mode. You cannot hold down the A key to temporarily disable snap.

This would be a valid solution if make you sure you can turn on/off snap while you’re dragging. Anyway I’d like to use a momentary key modifier, but I can get used with toggle behavior too.

While thinking about this, I had an idea that could make it much easier to do all sorts of drag operations:

Imagine you have made an event selection. You then right-click anywhere you like (most likely near your selection), and what appears is a translucent circular panel containing a number of handles arranged around the edge of the circle. The handles in the circle would be shortcuts for: moving, moving without snap, resizing, resizing without snap, fade-in/out, gain, snap point, note velocity, etc. The available drag actions could be customized by the user.

So basically you right-click, and then left-click+drag a handle on the circular panel, instead of left-click+dragging a handle on the event. The panel will pop up so that the last used handle will appear under the mouse, so if you’re doing a series of gain-adjustments on sound events, it’s a quick right/left click to start dragging the gain value. This panel would solve the problem of having more drag actions than can be activated with key shortcuts. It would also offer easily accessible drag handles, in case you have zoomed out so far that it would be difficult to hit the normal smaller handles on the event. It would also work well with touchscreen interfaces. 😉

Crazy idea?

Uhm, I think it’s a crazy idea in this moment, maybe later when touch screen would be more common. Why don’t you embrace in a total mouse customization for events? As PVR tool in sonar. You draw in a new window a big note, with the different zones, and let the user define the action for each combination of modifier+mouse button for each zone.

I wouldn’t mind wait two month for something like that, you will do tons of people happy with Podium 😉

Frits, I’ve thinking and ignore snap shorcut should act before start the movement, because imagine a note like this:

If you want to move the note start or end a little to fix something in a melody, if you start dragging without ignore snap shortcut you will lose the clue about where was exactly the start or end of the note.

So the solution would be that if the cursor is over events (not free piano roll / arrangement space) or in its border shift key works as ignore snap before click.

@Zynewave wrote:

Can’t it sometimes be confusing to have both snap modes enabled? For example, if you have an event that is very close to the grid line, it would be very hard to see whether you have dragged it so that it snaps absolute to the grid, or relative.

No 🙂 In theory you can believe can be some problems, but in the practise you discover that you always see where you’re snapping, even 1 pixel. While Podium hadn’t relative snap I had to use Reaper or FL Studio to do it, and that’s my experience.

After thinking about it for a while: How about assigning Shift+Alt as the x/y drag lock (currently Shift), and then assigning Shift to override snap? These shortcuts will only work if you press them after you have clicked the events to start the drag.

I’d like the key shortcut behaviour for snapping to be identical in all editors, so since Ctrl and Alt are used to drag copies in the arrangement editor (Windows standard), it has to be Shift or some other combination.

For me those are great shorcuts! 😀 and I’d bet that for all mouse-musician