Re: [Audacity-devel] Master Gain Slider

[Anthony A. O. <Ant...@ep...>]

On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 23:32:36 -0800, Dave Fancella wrote:

>On Thursday 20 February 2003 11:07 pm, Dominic Mazzoni wrote:

>> I also intended to have an "Automatic Gain Control" option
>> that adjusts all track gains down (by the same amount)
>> whenever clipping is detected.

>I'm strongly opposed to this, actually.  I'd rather have a guage or something 
>to tell me when it clips and by how much.  Ecasound does this and it 
>irritates me to hear everything sounding great and then adjust volume levels 
>and nothing happens because the whole mix is being automatically adjusted 
>down to account for clipping.  It would be a nice thing to toss in in a final 
>mix, just to make sure there isn't any clipping in the final recording, 
>though.

We addressed this briefly a while ago.

Here's a few ideas to incorporate what you guys want.

To adjust all tracks gains, other apps use the usual modifier key SHIFT. Vegas
actualy lets the user focus on the track panel(TAB jumps between the panel and
wavedisplay), and thus let's you CTRL+A all tracks or do the SHIFT+click and
CTRL+click thing.

If this seems kind unintuitive, how about a small row of buttons that we can
place important functions in, such as 'SelAll' for selecting all tracks. If
you'd like to take down two track gains, selecting them via SHIFT+click is
mandatory(for blind users the TAB method is worth some thought,so it's keyboard
only), but for all ...

I agree with Dave on the background activity of an audio audio app, but there's
room for both methods and the simple one is good for beginners. The pros can set
that to 'just tell me how much and I'll handle it'.

That little row of buttons can be just above the track panels, and I think it's
a good idea to keep it visible at all times and thus have it behave like a
toolbar(but not be movable).

Other buttons to place here at 'UnMuteAll'(Green button will do),
'UnSoloAll'(red button with Solo on it would do) and whatever we can think of.
Little buttons folks. Edit modes perhaps as soon as regions come in to play.

Anyway, two methods would be fine. I'd like that choice with the default being
automatic gain reduction. This has to be indicated however.

 Take care
  Tony