On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 18:30 +0100, Ben Wheeler wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:35:20PM -0400, Albert James Santoni wrote: > > >From there, we can build on the idea and come up with a spec for Looping > > >2.0. One idea I have myself: > > - Have a bank of loops that can be mixed in somehow. For example, when you > > set the loop in/out markers, it would save that loop to a bank and you > > could overlay it onto audio elsewhere in the song... something like this. > > That's called a Sampler ;) > Without the overlaying, it's called Hot Loops on the CDJ. > > > This the general idea. Let's do some brainstorming to figure out exactly > > what people want out of Looping 1.0, make sure it's achievable in a > > reasonable amount of time, and write the spec on the wiki. > > I suggest copying the CDJ again. > The "In" point of a loop is the Cue Point (or we could implement it that > they're separate, but by default the In point is set to the Cue point > when a track is loaded). The "Out" point you set in real-time and as soon > as it's set, it starts looping. You can move either point by pressing the > relevant button and using the search buttons or jog wheel to move it, which > updates it in realtime, then press again to store the new position. > Then there's a cancel/reloop button, to escape from the loop (when it > ends) or to restart looping again. > > Cue and loop points should be shown on the whole-track waveform overview. >
Sounds like a good start to me. I've started a page for the feature spec, everyone please feel free to add stuff to it: http://www.mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/looping (I've added your idea already, Ben.) My big questions is: What can we do to make this as simple and user friendly as possible? Example: I remember when I was a young n00b DJ, I found looping terminology confusing. The terms "loop in" and "loop out" got me for some reason - "in" and "out" make no sense to me in the context. "Start" and "End" or something would be better, I think. Thanks! Albert ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Mixxx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
