I flipped over to my Lion partition. Yep, I guess the Clips deprecation is
complete, that location doesn't load into the patch list.
On May 18, 2012, at 10:54 AM, Alastair Leith <qc.student...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks George. I was hoping to convert on an individual-patch-basis when I
> determine that I need to make a one-off change to a regularly used Virtual
> Macro… Guess I have to choose Edit Patch… in Patch Library window's menu and
> select-all, copy, paste, make macro, rewire noodles from old patch. Or use
> flatten if that suits the situation.
>
> Strange the Release Notes reference to default behaviour ("By default, macros
> added…") when there doesn't seem to be any other behaviour available. Unless
> it's a nod to the fact that, as you indicated, Clips can be added to Library.
> Although I haven't been able to confirm that one.
>
> I tried copying my Clips from OLD_HD/Library/Application
> Support/Apple/Developer Tools/Quartz Composer/Clips to
> Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Apple/Developer Tools/Quartz
> Composer/Clips (which already had 4 clips that must have been migrated from
> somewhere the BCM2000 ones (Behringer) but none of these clips are appearing
> in QC's Library after a reboot of QC… :-\
>
>
> The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but
> plunges him more deeply into them.
> Antoine de Saint-Exupery
>
> On 18/05/2012, at 11:14 PM, George Toledo wrote:
>
>> You flatten the composition.
>>
>> You should be able to choose "Option" while looking at the Save menu, and
>> there should be an option to save a flattened version of the qtz file. That
>> will make the previously "virtual patches" turn into regular, editable
>> macros.
>>
>> Clips behavior is still active, just not present in the GUI. If you store
>> your macros in the valid clip folder (can't remember where that is at the
>> moment), QC will still load the macro into the Patch Library and let you use
>> it like a clip.
>>
>> -gt
>>
>> On May 18, 2012, at 9:13 AM, Alastair Leith wrote:
>>
>>> In the release notes for QC 4.6:
>>> A Virtual Macro is a reference to a composition that allows the composition
>>> to be used in multiple places, requiring only changes to the original
>>> composition when updates are needed. By default, macros added to a
>>> composition from the Patch Library are added as Virtual Macros.
>>>
>>> I can't find anyway to get a 'non-default' behaviour from the Patch Library
>>> does it exist?
>>>
>>> A way to add a Virtual Macro converted to a regular Macro (as clips were in
>>> QC 3) would be nice. Even better the ability to embed a virtual macro
>>> already used in the composition as a normal macro that can be opened and
>>> edited would be great. There's a way to do this, right?
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