On February 22, 2013 07:57:38 PM Tim E. Real wrote: > On February 23, 2013 09:01:59 AM Geoff Beasley wrote: > > Hi Tim. Your last round of changes look amazing. Well done. > > One question tho, in the README you state that in the drum editor; > > > > The pencil tool will not resize a drum note, it moves the note. > > > > If I have a 30 second gong sample for example and I didn't create a long > > enough note to play the entire sample, how then do i make the note > > longer to play the entire sample if not with the pencil tool? Am i > > missing something obvious? > > Hey how's it going? > > The drum editor was designed more towards just getting the > ticks on the grid because in /general/ one is not concerned with > drum note length. > > However, for the odd sound where it matters, the length of the > drum notes can be adjusted with the note length box on one of > the tool bars. > > As you can see, the visual drum ticks were not designed to have any > 'length'. > > (In technical terms the drum canvas is the only one which is /not/ virtual, > that is, items drawn on it do /not/ care about magnification and length > etc. the drum items are constant 'diamond' size.) > > So even if we allow the length 'value' to be adjusted visually while > resizing, one cannot even see what one is doing, because there's no visual > length. > > Yeah, I know I thought about this while I was in there, but what could I do? > It would mean basically turning the drum editor into the piano roll. > > In this case I turned it into an advantage by making movement behavior > different than the piano roll. One can just get the notes on the grid > easier than the piano roll (well, only in that you don't have to press > RightClick/Ctrl to move them around). > > So I'd recommend either opening the part in the piano roll if you have > a such notes sensitive to length and you really want to see and adjust > the length visually, or use the drum editor's note length box.
To make things easier, open the part with the piano roll *and* the drum editor at the same time. That way when you select the note in the drum editor, you will see it highlighted also in the piano roll and vice versa. Because it is difficult to know which piano roll lanes correspond with the drum editor lanes. Thus, here the piano roll can act as a sort of 'buddy' window where the lengths can be seen. Tim. > > Make any sense? > > > Otherwise I love the consistancy of the key combos across all the > > editors. It will be quick to learn and truely useful. > > > > BTW I have never understood the v1,v2,v3,v4 - can someone explain the > > purpose of these? > > With the four adjustable drum velocity levels LV1 to LV4, there are hotkey > combos which you press before you draw a new drum note, and it will > draw the note with the chosen velocity level. > > The tool tips describe the hotkeys. Hover the mouse over the columns to see. > > best > > > > g ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Lmuse-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmuse-developer
