Hi! On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 09:50:59PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > I just tried BEAST to see if it might be suitable for producing a track. > > I deem it very important to work in an agile way, starting, stopping > jumping around, looping over parts, listening to sounds and sequences in > isolation or various combinations ... because there are lots of things > to try and to tweak, if you want to produce quality. > > With that in mind, I stumbled over several issues: > - Play/stop isn't triggered with spacebar (quite common with other > sequencers). There are shortcuts, but not one to toggle Play/Pause. > - Play after Stop always starts from the beginning. > - The playhead will happily leave the view. The view should follow the > playhead. Pagewise, not constantly scrolling. > - I had to ask on IRC on how to set loop points, despite knowing several > schemes from other apps. This should not require setting an option. > Better use L/M/R mouse button for playhead, left and right pointer (I > think most other apps call it Markers). Or some shift/ctrl-clicks, if it > has to be. > - No playback controls, no loop-this-pattern and no solo in the note > editor (all useful to quickly isolate and keeping in playback of what > you work on at the moment). > > In the synth-editor, I miss sub-patches. But I guess that's what the > SubSynth node is meant for? I'd prefer patches as nodes, with just the > desired ports.
I've looked tested Cubase 5 does, so we have a reference to compare BEAST to; I think we've got to priorize your suggestions, and start implementing the more important ones first. I think these are: * Bind "SPACE" key to play/pause - thats what Cubase does, too. * Start playing from the last play position - like Cubase. With just these two changes, BEAST should be much more usable. I'll try to find the time to implement these two changes. We also might want to add a button to set the play position pointer to song start, otherwise you'd always have to do this manually, once the changes are in place. Cu... Stefan -- Stefan Westerfeld, Hamburg/Germany, http://space.twc.de/~stefan _______________________________________________ beast mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/beast
