BUGZ\'n\'Questions + Ideas

Bugz

1> if your song has used 80 patterns but some were removed from it, when you double click on a 00 pattern or insert a new pattern, it makes pattern 81 and so on all of which are coverd in garbled nonsense characters.
1.5> following from that i use far more than 80 patterns per song, or would like to. Can you up the limit please ?

2> if you do not press ok after loading song when it brings up the dialogue box, and go to another window or the desktop, the song doesn't load if you go back in and click ok.

3> 02/01 command pitch up/down - i reported error previously when using it on synths, this is not the end of the problem, repeatedly playing a track with lots of 02 and 01 commands on a sampler will yield an altering pitch shift, its ok when you play song, mostly.

4> why does loop tuner only do forward, blue wizard need ping pong,.. badly.

5> LFO Timing, still unusable because i can't tell it to start on note start.

8> delays still suffer from inaccurate timing due to lack of options to set exact value, slider is just no cigar.

IDEAs - possibly psycle 2 stuff, figure alot won't fit current code engine.

1> Why not seperate tracks into control tracks and note trigger tracks.
2> i really think it would be a bonus to add a new type of wire that causes a note trigger adressed to either machine to trigger both you could very simply build complex sounds rather than having to write them in seperately and then listen again and again.
3> Just imagine holding control and dragging a note on a track to fine delay/prelay it, graphical would be the best but even now you could make write in appropriate tweaks next to the note.
4> In far future, what about graphical note track displays with quantised positioning, fine prelay/delay diplayed as lines on a black track with faint markings every 4 etc and then having the option to overlay the waveform including effects
5>also far future, vertical line graph tracks to display panning or volume and using left to right as amptitude.
you'd really see what your song is doing that way.
5.5> graphs should be click and dragable and have options for inverse/exponential curves.
6> i think you should standardise the synth parts used and have a reaktor ( Native instruments ) style machine bay. Just make seperate oscillators and modulaters and so that you put inside a machine unit to form it. People could be making new machines all the time. Or would thar slow it all down to much.
7> What is pulse and ramp etc as waveforms, can we have them in aguru synths, i like using aguru synths.

8> This may be a little insane, but how about having a write multi sample funtionality for synths with or without effects, saving on speed and allowing Idea number 9
9> that being the ability 09xx command a synth sound.

Questions -

Whats wrong with preset tweaking, is it just ill fitted to code at moment or do you have other plans ?

Thanks, i mean really thanks,
Since i started using your program my music is thriving, in a couple of months i probably have my first few songs done. I love trackers. and i think with some work on the interface that they take over the world.

Weeeell... long post.. short answers?

bug 1.a: The autoaddition of patterns was changed in the latest versions to get the latest not used in sequence (but it doesn't take care of unused patters in it). I never thought that I could add an invalid pattern, which is what you're describing. I will have to improve it some more as I see.

bug 1.b: long songs you do as I see. That limit is "Format" limit. I cannot overcome it without making a patch on it and writing the new extra positions at the end of the file (Where there are already other data which should be in other places). Fileformat is going to change, and then, limitations like this one will be removed.

bug 2: Actually, the bug exists in that this dialog should be modal (i.e. not allow to click out of it) and it is known. I hope I could workaround this in someway.

bug 3: Commands are machine dependant. Psycle does not manage them. So it is a bug in each machine. In sampler, it was made without much knowledge. In AS's, it was done by arguru and assumed to work. Sampler is going to be recoded, and AS's probably dismissed or replaced by other. That's the solution we manage.

bug 4: Sampler limitation. (Read above if needed)

bug 5: Again something that depends on the machine. Not my first priority right now, since I'm working with the core to supply them better response and functions.

bug 8: (oups.. where have 6 and 7 gone?) Well.. Dialogs will be removed in the future. Also, the parameters of those machines are not internally using the time domain, but index values, so maybe you wouldn't even be able to be precise either. (Generally, they only have 256 values mapped to the time indicated).

Idea 1: It is in my mind. It is prosible that it comes with PsyClean.

Idea 2: I don't agree completely. You don't need that. You need the possibility to define a machine from other machines. It would complicate your view if not.

Idea 3: Can't see how you can fine delay inside the pattern editor in that way you say. Not sure what you exactly mean.

Idea 4: MIDI editor like? I would love to. Time will tell.

Idea 5: Old idea. Not sure if it will ever be done.

Idea 6: I've always liked to be able to do such type of machine, but it ends being almost a complete program. The best option is to make it part of psycle, so what it ends doing is having its own machine window, and self defined params and commands. This might be done. Not sure how or when.

Idea 7: pulse = square . ramp = saw

Idea 8 and 9: I don't understand you here.


Question 1: Well, what's wrong is the way they are used. Right now they are just some settings. For VST's this can be improved much using its own ".fxb" format (which right now I only import). Also, there's a bug that will be fixed in next release with VST .prs files.
Finally, I want to make it easier for the user to switch between them for testing purposes.


See you.

__________________
<[JAZ]> Pa pi pa pa pa pi pa.... ;·D