TrackPAD v1.01 - T-Stickies! [UPDATED]
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- KVRAF
- 1714 posts since 14 Mar, 2003 from Israel
Unicode will be appreciated here too. Don't suppose you can allow aligning text to the right while your'e at it? (some of us speak bizzare languages)ModuLR wrote:dunno about the hyperlink thing... if JUCE supports it, then maybe... gotta peek... and I'd have to check the uni-code thing to laiben.
Trackpad is a great utility that gets a lot of use here. Thanks alot for making it and sharing it.
CubaseStudio4 µTonic/Rapture Nitro/GS-201/Ohmicide/TBK 1&3
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- KVRian
- 1272 posts since 11 Apr, 2002 from Nashville, TN
First thanks again for this awesome thing ModuLR, I use it all the time. Now that I am done saying thanks, here is my long list of feature request! 
- Ability to change fonts, font color, font size
- Ability to change background color
- Underlining, italics, bold
Cool but not as crucial
- Ability to center, left / right justify any portion
- Ability to create a margin
- Ability to print
Ok but here's the kicker!
- "Trackpad Cinema", a companion filter that would display the most recently "Played" Trackpad's contents (that feed into it). The two VST plugins working together would allow a user to display dynamic lyrics, chords etc. For example, a user could display dynamic lyrics by creating a few (even silent) audio clips in a track and placing a separate Trackpad filter instance in each of the clips with progressive sections of lyrics. The Trackpad Cinema would then be placed in the track's filter area. Then, whenever the Tracktion edit is played, as the current play position reaches each trackpad filter, that trackpad's contents are updated and displayed by the Trackpad Cinema. If you wanted for some reason to empty the Trackpad Cinema's contents and clear it's display you could just create an empty trackpad instance and have it "played".
I am not quite sure how data would be fed from a Trackpad instance to a Trackpad Cinema instance (I don't know enough about the VST specs) but it certainly seems feasible when I see what you did with the Mathematiks VST. Perhaps tracks using this combination of companion plugins would have to be devoted to text and Trackpad Cinema would then NOT pass any MIDI or audio depending on how you passed the data to Trackpad Cinema. That way any audio typed data which was being used as a channel to carry the text would never be heard.
I hope I expressed all this well enough to get the idea across.
- Ability to change fonts, font color, font size
- Ability to change background color
- Underlining, italics, bold
Cool but not as crucial
- Ability to center, left / right justify any portion
- Ability to create a margin
- Ability to print
Ok but here's the kicker!
- "Trackpad Cinema", a companion filter that would display the most recently "Played" Trackpad's contents (that feed into it). The two VST plugins working together would allow a user to display dynamic lyrics, chords etc. For example, a user could display dynamic lyrics by creating a few (even silent) audio clips in a track and placing a separate Trackpad filter instance in each of the clips with progressive sections of lyrics. The Trackpad Cinema would then be placed in the track's filter area. Then, whenever the Tracktion edit is played, as the current play position reaches each trackpad filter, that trackpad's contents are updated and displayed by the Trackpad Cinema. If you wanted for some reason to empty the Trackpad Cinema's contents and clear it's display you could just create an empty trackpad instance and have it "played".
I am not quite sure how data would be fed from a Trackpad instance to a Trackpad Cinema instance (I don't know enough about the VST specs) but it certainly seems feasible when I see what you did with the Mathematiks VST. Perhaps tracks using this combination of companion plugins would have to be devoted to text and Trackpad Cinema would then NOT pass any MIDI or audio depending on how you passed the data to Trackpad Cinema. That way any audio typed data which was being used as a channel to carry the text would never be heard.
I hope I expressed all this well enough to get the idea across.
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- KVRAF
- 6490 posts since 14 Jun, 2004 from Rochester, NY
how about setting a page per midi note, and just popping it on to a track and dropping the proper midi notes!!!
how awesome would this be, to help out clients recording and even ourselves instead of looking at lyric sheets?
must have multiple font sizes i agree.
how awesome would this be, to help out clients recording and even ourselves instead of looking at lyric sheets?
must have multiple font sizes i agree.
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- KVRian
- 1272 posts since 11 Apr, 2002 from Nashville, TN
well really with the way i described it and maybe rpc's way is better I don't know you could put all your lyrics in one clip that was the length of the song. Then just start chopping the clip into pieces at all the line changes or each bar in the case of chords. Every split clip has the same effects as the parent clip so then you could just highlight the current line/chord with a font color. It would be a pretty fast way to work.
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- KVRAF
- 6490 posts since 14 Jun, 2004 from Rochester, NY
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- KVRAF
- 6490 posts since 14 Jun, 2004 from Rochester, NY
Launch trackpad
page 1
midi trigger note: C-5
(add new page)
<Prev Next>
page 2
Midi trigger note: D-5
<prev next>
etc etc
if no trigger note selected, trackpad just stays on last page selected.
+ font resize.
page 1
midi trigger note: C-5
(add new page)
<Prev Next>
page 2
Midi trigger note: D-5
<prev next>
etc etc
if no trigger note selected, trackpad just stays on last page selected.
+ font resize.
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- KVRAF
- 3364 posts since 16 Feb, 2004 from atop a katamari
i guess it'd be possible to expand trackPAD to have a set of notes stored, and a list of time-position ranges. whenever the cursor lies between a particular range (as the position is sent to the plugs when playing), a particular note can be displayed in the main text window. the list would show the time position ranges and each one can be selected to show the text for that region. as the plug recieves the cursor position, it will automatically select the correct piece of text.
the only problem i can see with this, however, is that i'm not sure if the time data arrives automatically at the plugin, or if it needs to arrive with a particular event- that may mean that it would only change when playing, or it would only update the current selection if a note were played (but it could be any note, just position the cursor and reach over to the keyboard to strike any old key). not sure whether or not these will apply, but i'll probably have a look at making those adjustments myself when i finish the two projects i'm working on already...
the only problem i can see with this, however, is that i'm not sure if the time data arrives automatically at the plugin, or if it needs to arrive with a particular event- that may mean that it would only change when playing, or it would only update the current selection if a note were played (but it could be any note, just position the cursor and reach over to the keyboard to strike any old key). not sure whether or not these will apply, but i'll probably have a look at making those adjustments myself when i finish the two projects i'm working on already...
Kick, punch, it's all in the mind.
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- KVRAF
- 6490 posts since 14 Jun, 2004 from Rochester, NY
*excited*
well just imagine every time the midi note is pressed, it shows a certain page.
kind of like in your stepchild, where it plays a certain number of pattern. got it? simple! (i hope)
RonC
well just imagine every time the midi note is pressed, it shows a certain page.
kind of like in your stepchild, where it plays a certain number of pattern. got it? simple! (i hope)
RonC
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- KVRAF
- 6490 posts since 14 Jun, 2004 from Rochester, NY
*bompfff*
modulr? did you understand?
this would be an AMAZING tool for clients as well as songwriters, to toggle where their lyrics pop up! (at a larger size)
RonC
RonC
modulr? did you understand?
this would be an AMAZING tool for clients as well as songwriters, to toggle where their lyrics pop up! (at a larger size)
RonC
RonC
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- KVRAF
- 9096 posts since 5 Feb, 2004
clients clients clients clients clients. It's all about those CLIENTS!
If you have requests for Korg VST features or changes, they are listening at https://support.korguser.net/hc/en-us/requests/new
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- KVRAF
- 6490 posts since 14 Jun, 2004 from Rochester, NY
quit hijacking bro, pm me or aim me if you want peanut gallery. this is a great plug and i just wanted to make sure modulr understood this concept, which im sure he does