TrackPAD 3 alpha6 preview [+midi]

[pHz]

give me text colours / bold / italic and im off VSTnotes for good hadders ...

slainte rob

[Rock]

Ok Haydxn, here is the link for the app - Have mercy... this is one half baked piece of crap, but it does work to prepare a list of chords to be displayed in karaoke fashion. Once it did that, I quit working on it. I only send it to you thinking that perhaps you might want to roll its functionality into Trackpad. Of course if anyone else wants it, feel free to grab it.

How to use:

- Type or paste your song's chords into the left panel. I generally place each measure's chords on its own line (measure 1 = line 1 and so on)

- Hit the "make chords" button.

- Copy the results

- Paste the results into the 1st page of a new instance of Trackpad

- Parse the page (THIS WILL ONLY WORK WITH THE PARSING VERSION OF TRACKPAD!!!)

- Usa a midi clip with a rising chromatic line of whole notes to trigger the page turns. Start on the MIDI note corresponding with page 1 in Trackpad (I forget which note that is) and move up one note per measure.

* Note - This app's "make lyrics" button doesn't do a darn thing. Is that a quick and dirty interface or what?

[FoxV]

Very cool.

Many thank yous!

[robenestobenz]

This is absolutely awesome... I'd had to represent some chords with crappy ASCII before and I can't wait to use this new feature. Thanks a lot for the plugin (and timer, which is embedded in my default project templates).

[Mauvehead]

If i can find a useable way of putting in images, then there may be an 'image' content option for your pages too. That would come quite a bit later tho.

When you say "images" do you mean user pics? I've thought about that before how sweet it would be to be able to have some way to attach digital camera pics of studio set-ups like when we mic drums or vocalists or whatever. Granted pics are easy to grab from another folder elsewhere on the PC but it would be useful being able to tuck them inside a little VST (or perhaps tucking their link for quick one-click access to the pic) and then assign them to the corresponding audio tracks. Having pics actually show what we did is a real time-saver versus writing out long and often inadequate descriptions of our mic'ing setups. Just a thought. I love TrackPad by the way. Good job!

[haydxn]

yeah, i mean having your own images come up on the page. It'd be not difficult at all to simply have a link to the pictures somewhere on your HD, but that would lose the easy self-contained nature of the presets - if you were collaborating with someone else and sent them your project, the preset would load your text and chords fine but the images would have to be found i'd ideally like the images to be saved into the preset file, but i don't think it's practical/possible to embed jpg data into an XML structure.

the simplest way i can think of having images is like this:

- you specify a directory, and any images you load get copied into it. This would be your project folder. The plugin then makes use of those images. If the plugin cannot find the image files (e.g. when the computer has changed because of a collaboration), it asks you to find the folder containing the files.

is it acceptable to force the user to have these copies made into the project folder? that would be the most seamless way... otherwise links to their current locations could be used, and then a button/function to "consolidate pictures to project folder" could be pressed at some point when you're backing up or collaborating.

let me know your thoughts

[Mauvehead]

For my uses it would be very practical to have the pic's copied into a project file for linking. I do collaborate with another T2 user so we are always having to pass files back and forth. This whole concept of loading pic's in a VST is plain brilliant. It would be all the more impressive and more professional when dealing with clients as well. Again.......great job!

[haydxn]

@pHz : that's gonna have to wait for the TextEditor JUCE component to get updated... at the moment you CAN set the font/colour/size/style to be different across the text, but there's no way to retrieve those settings so as soon as you change the page those settings would be lost. jules has said he's going to enhance it to pull out all that information... til then, unless i can be arsed to do that stuff myself, it'll have to be one style per page i'm afraid.

[Rock]

If i can find a useable way of putting in images, then there may be an 'image' content option for your pages too. That would come quite a bit later tho.

When you say "images" do you mean user pics? I've thought about that before how sweet it would be to be able to have some way to attach digital camera pics of studio set-ups like when we mic drums or vocalists or whatever. Granted pics are easy to grab from another folder elsewhere on the PC but it would be useful being able to tuck them inside a little VST (or perhaps tucking their link for quick one-click access to the pic) and then assign them to the corresponding audio tracks. Having pics actually show what we did is a real time-saver versus writing out long and often inadequate descriptions of our mic'ing setups. Just a thought. I love TrackPad by the way. Good job!

Photo-logging the mics was the first thing that came to my mind as well. You could even photograph the settings of your outboard gear.

[pHz]

@pHz : that's gonna have to wait for the TextEditor JUCE component to get updated... at the moment you CAN set the font/colour/size/style to be different across the text, but there's no way to retrieve those settings so as soon as you change the page those settings would be lost. jules has said he's going to enhance it to pull out all that information... til then, unless i can be arsed to do that stuff myself, it'll have to be one style per page i'm afraid.

fair enough mate ... pics WOULD be nice though i agree ...

slainte rob

[Mauvehead]

Hadn't thought about pic's of outboard gear......crack me up. Who needs to write anything down these days?!

[rockstar_not]

Who needs to write anything down these days?!

I thought that's what computers are for.


"Type it once, why type it again?"
-David Byrne
(paraphrased, of course)

[Mauvehead]

LOL That's what my oldest son keeps arguing. He says he doesn't need good handwriting skills since he anticipates 75% of his vocational communication will be via computers. It's a lost art.

[dealwithit]

LOL That's what my oldest son keeps arguing. He says he doesn't need good handwriting skills since he anticipates 75% of his vocational communication will be via computers. It's a lost art.

Leaving 25% of his correspondence reliant on his handwriting to convey his intelligence (like or not, people do judge other's intelligence based on handwriting) and professionalism. Tell him to buck up and learn to write legibly.

[pHz]

people judge intelligence based on handwriting ???

fukc ...

slainte rob