Re: [Audacity-devel] Audacity vs. Ceres Sound Studio - first impressions

[Anthony A. O. <ai...@gm...>]

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:49:16 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

>On 8/11/05, Fernando Cassia <fer...@gm...> wrote:

>>  1. The default color scheme is REALLY, really ugly for my tastes. What's
>> wrong with the "BLACK background, waveform in green" classic?. That's the
>> standard in Ceres and GoldWave, 

>A standard back to 1997, not 2005, so sorry - not a good point here :)
>Check out Samplitude and its color scheme and you'll see what I mean.

Standard colour shemes that do not tire the eyes over long periods of time
are important, and dark green on black background, while interesting for
some, is hardly used in editing and sequencing applications. I'd go nuts if
that colour sheme were used in Protools. Text, I presume, is displayed as
black text on a lightly coloured background for a reason too, and not as
light coloured text on a dark coloured background. It supposidly easier to
read for a longer period of time and thus a widley used standard.



>>  4. In Ceres I could just hit "play" and WHILE the sound is playing, click
>> anywhere (back and forth) on the waveform AND the playback just "jumps" to
>> that position continuing playback seamlessly (not even causing a click or
>> pop), making finding the right position on the waveform VERY easy. In
>> Audacity, You hit play, click somewhere in the waveform, and the playback
>> continues unaffected.

>Here I completely agree with you

This is obviously a preference of some users or for some situations.
I've never seen this being used in Protools, mainly because people like to
select stuff during playback. Protools has good scrubbing tools(single to
dual track srub and a scrub-trimmer), so I see no reason to click around in
the audio to find a certain spot. To me scrubbing is ten times faster than
clicking around to play the audio at that spot. In my line of work(lots of
editing decisions every day) limiting me to a click-to-play functionality
would slow me down.


>>  5. Another great feature that I miss from Ceres.... the use of the cursor
>> up/down keys to make the cursor jump several seconds back/forward in the
>> waveform. That complemented the use of the left-right cursor keys nicely,
>> because you could "move slowly" with left/right, and "jump" with up/down.

>Yes, that would be nice as well

Much better than using the mouse too.

 Tony