From: D. M. 'S. M. <ros...@gm...> - 2006-06-15 00:36:54
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On Wednesday 14 June 2006 12:12 pm, Chris Cannam wrote: Not a very thorough test, but I've had a quick play. This is great stuff! One thing that makes me wonder is the inability to do a free select when defining a loop. It always snaps, and only seems to snap to major beat divisions. I'm not sure if this bothers me or not, since I actually almost never free select anyway. No time to go down and test point for point, but it seems consistent with expections, and promises to be extremely useful. There are a couple of use cases I didn't play with yet. > If that doesn't seem like the best option, what is? Loop/range *is* a little strange. Using the transport for an edit-related operation seems a bit strange too. Should I really be able to turn off my little copy range marker with a button on the Transport Should I be able to use those loop/range start/end buttons you're proposing for that sort of purpose as well? I think the answer is no, I probably shouldn't It doesn't feel very intuitive. I don't think my niggling unease here is with the idea of using the white bar on the ruler for this so much as controlling any part of it with the Transport. It doesn't feel like quite the right thing to do, but I don't have a better suggestion. Move the loop/range controls into a separate part of the Transport, and they're still on the Transport. Make a new, separate, floating loop/range manipulator, or a toolbar? Nah. That would be worse. So I guess basically I feel slightly uneasy about it, but I think I can get over it. I might not have found it strange if I hadn't already gotten used to thinking of things as doing one particular job. Anyway, I have to get off my butt and go earn a paycheck. :( -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre ---- Silvan <dmm...@us...> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ |