I forgot that was even there.speccyteccy wrote:First thing I wanted to do was to use the computer keyboard as a midi keyboard, so I searched (or at least thought I did) the help by typing "qwerty" and hitting enter. Took me to a long page that I had to read through but found no mention of the word "qwerty" - turns out the help doesn't have a search function (!!!), and it had just taken me to a page that contained the nearest thing - "quantize"!
Finally figured that I need to hit F12 to use the computer keyboard as midi – however, it loses focus as soon as I touch something else, like the mixer.
Hold down CTRL while you paint.In the piano roll, I can't seem to paint notes horizontally.
Huh? Do you use a hotkey combo or something in FL?No horizontal mouse scroll in the piano roll.
You mean "No lame, useless wave editor". I have Cool Edit 2000 in mine and I think Krim has SoundForge. Steven West is a bit pretentious so he probably has WaveLab, right there in his ORION Playlist.No wave editor?
never noticed none of those but I do have a more serious than avaerage display card.Graphical glitches on title bar of piano roll and in main toolbar – stuff being drawn in the wrong place, like the “bar numbers”.
Really? I don't think its ever come up.Is it possible to see piano roll and instrument at the same time? It seems you can only toggle between the two views. If not, that’s a big issue.
Que? That's way more than anyone should need. I rarely use more than one and never more than two. I've noticed this in CM a bit. People seem to find the most difficult way to do everything. I really don't get it.Only four sub groups in the mixer?
LFO tool, no splines.Are there any spline or lfo drawing tools in event editor?
No, because Rich is not happy with the quality of any of the available technology that he could license to do it.Can Orion do time stretching?
Thank God. I never used it, it took up too much space.Can’t find anything like FL’s browser
That is probably because you don't get even a fraction of the sound-sets that ship with them.Also had a quick look at the fx and synths – there seems to be a good selection of fx, but can’t say I’m impressed by the synths
and none of FL's instruments seem to have wave-sequencing or anythign approaching a decent sounding resonant filter. What's your point? I hate multi-point envelopes - too much krap to wade through when you almost never need them.– none of them appear to have anything other than basic ADSR envelopes, which is a big downer.
That's strange, Fruity has been around a lot longer than ORION, you'd think they would be at version 7 or 8 by now.In all fairness, as Orion 6 has just been released, I should be comparing it with FL6 which is just about to be released
... that won't address any of its core weaknesses, I'm sure.although it’s probably a good thing (from Orion’s perspective) that I can’t do that – FL6 looks like a huge update.
I always though speccyteccy was an idiot, look at the name he chose.arke wrote:Nice review speccyteccy. I'm sure many people have found it informative. Only problem for you is that you are now considered an idiot by Bones because you don't like closing synths. But, let's hope he forgets.
Errr... how on Earth would that help? You can't see the envelope superimposed over the piano roll at the approriate scale, can you? You are absolutely going to have to use your ears in that situation, like every other that I can think of. Again, you need to free yourself from the process and concentrate on the results. Its a great mantra, try it.jens wrote:er... maybe e.g. because on basslines there's often some kind of trade-off/interdependence between the note-lenghts and the filter-/gain-envelopes needed/recommended/going on...Kriminal wrote:No, why would you want to?speccyteccy wrote:Is it possible to see piano roll and instrument at the same time? It seems you can only toggle between the two views. If not, that’s a big issue.
