Ahem… Not really a bug, but a little visual inconsistency, maybe:
As opposed to other events, the contents of automation events are not colored with the selection text color. Example: red active selection font color – the curve is colored ever so slightly with the track color (green).
Since the automation overhaul, the automation lines may of course be handled a little differently altogether.
By the way, why is it that pan automation events always display a “ghosted” line at the center position as well as the actual line? :-k
Edit: forgot to mention why this can become a problem!
If you use darker selection colors with bright text like I like to do, the selected event’s curve can become rather hard to see. And the same happens at the other end of the spectrum too, of course.
Ouch! 😯
Good find. Seems you have to give it a moment or two…
I don’t think this has ever happened in the “old” editor.
@Conquistador wrote:
@ Frits
Could you please detach the colour settings for the Editor Profile bar buttons from the Mixers Show / Hide buttons (Top left of Mixer) as any change a user makes to the colours affects both sets of buttons.
The problem here is when a button is selected in the Editor Profile bar, white text appears. If you have a dark colour that is great and works well but…now the Show / Hide buttons above the zoom button are barely legible.
Switch to a much lighter colour to see the show hide button text properly and now you can barely make out the text on any of the Editor Profile buttons when selected.
Removing the link between the colour settings for the Editor Profile Bar and the Mixers Show / Hide buttons should solve that problem.
Yeah, I mentioned this too, I believe, though with a different solution. It doesn’t only affect the mixer buttons but almost all icons. 🙁
Try the track select buttons in the rack for an example how it’s done right!
Most of the icons in Podium have issues with dark backgrounds, and so the new mixer options buttons also don’t agree with my dark selection colors.
An exception are the nicely done track select buttons in the rack. I hope that some day, the rest of the icons will be able to follow suit. O:)
The rack uses a smaller font if you set “use small size” in its options. The embedded parameter text in the rack only uses the two-lined display method (like in the mixer) only when the rack has a scrollbar and is resized small enough. I’m not sure if that’s really a bug…
By the way, there’re also sometimes text overlaps. (Example: smallest rack size without scrollbar. If there were enough parameters to merit a scrollbar, it would switch to displaying separate lines for parameter name and value.)
@Conquistador wrote:
@Frits I asked this earlier…where has the option to increase the size of text in the mixer and / or tracks been moved to? I can’t find it anywhere.
:-k
At the moment, there’s only the small mixer font size left. During the 2.23 beta’s, there was still an option for that (after you yourself, among others) found the selector buttons too big for the mixer. Maybe that’s changed since they can be zoomed now. In that case, I hope Frits hasn’t fed his code to the shredder…! (Font size option’s still there in the rack, by the way :wink:)
@Zynewave wrote:
@LiquidProj3ct wrote:
Good morning. It’s nice the mixer zoom 🙂 I’d like that meters were scaled too, and volume faders keep at the left of each strip when zooming. I consider it more classy.
Wider meters will require a bit of work, so that will come in a later release.
The fader and meter share the meter dB markings. The translucent fader slides on top of the markings so that you can use the dB markings as hints for what the fader dB value is. If the fader is moved to the left edge, you would lose that link.
The fader wouldn’t have to move over alone, though.
A tad too extreme? 😛
@ronin wrote:
Another thing (which is probably general problem): If the EQ is deleted (Alt+Click) and one uses the undo function to bring it back, all EQ-settings are lost.
Yeah, restoring plug-in settings works only when you undo deletion of a track, it seems. It’d be very nice to have the information necessary to retrieve such settings also stored with the undo/redo function for unassigning/reassigning plug-ins!
Here’s a little more difficult suggestion: When you double-click somewhere to activate a band, it jumps right to the cursor position. That makes it impossible to toggle bands on/off for a quick comparison in the mini-editor. How about changing this so a band stays at its last position upon (re-)activating it, and only follows the cursor if you still hold the mouse button to drag it after the double-click.
Another thing that could be nice is having zPEQ use Podium’s parameter gradation color for its curve fill instead of text color. Not sure if it’d really help, but may be worth a try, if it’s not too complicated.
@LiquidProj3ct wrote:
Before this update I never used zPEQ, now that it’s my default EQ I found something very confusing: the colours. When you mix diferent filters (parametric, LP, BP…) the colours doesn’t help at all: They difficult my vision. If you think this is ok, please consider this small change:
That’s exactly the way the EQ looked before 2.24 – you really never used it? 🙂
I think the new curve display makes more sense, but I’m fine with either.
