FR theme: Gimmeback (features from eXT1 missing in XT2)

[djsubject]

i miss the move octave buttons in the midi editor

[insertpizhere]

in the meantime, have you tried ctrl+shift+up/down arrows?

[djsubject]

in the meantime, have you tried ctrl+shift+up/down arrows?

ok, now i don't miss them at all & may well never use them when they get added

Jorgen, please add other things before you add those un-needed octave buttons in the midi editor

thank you insertpizhere

Subz

[soma]

Priority for me would be right click:
-VST
-Replace
-Recent
(and drag and drop from OS into mixer)

Also the bug with not releasing RAM after deleting a VST would be a wonderful fix for the next beta. Add in saving shortcuts, and I think people will be happy for next week.

[GatoKonBotas]

- when changing time signatures, move notes to respond to new signature (the way Tracktion does)

I would prefer that this be optional. I can envision situations in which all you want is a rebarring, but you don't want to change the note positions within the timeline.

Also, I don't know what kind of implementation Jorgen would have in mind for time signatures, but in my view it would be important for it not to be a global setting, and that it would be possible to have time signature changes in the course of a sequence. This is probably essential for people doing soundtrack work, or prog-rock, or other esoteric styles.

I'm probably going to give myself away as an old fart, but the way this kind of thing was implemented in the old KCS for the Atari ST (mid to late 80's, to this day still one of the best thought-out MIDI sequencers ever, bar none) was with "time-signature events" which could be inserted anywhere in a track. Let us say that you had a sequence that starts in 4/4, but then there is a section that you would want in 5/4. Then you would insert a time-signature event somewhere during the last bar of the 4/4 section; at the end of that bar, the time signature would switch to 5/4, with the corresponding changes in bar count and metronome behaviour (going from tock-tick-tick-tick to tock-tick-tick-tick-tick. It was brilliantly done. Ah, I wish Dr. T (Emile Tobenfeld, the developer) came back and did something in the VST world...

[spacedad]

Priority for me would be right click:
-VST
-Replace
-Recent

+1
though the new side-browser for vst is great for me as the 'too many vst to fit on the screen' problem has now gone.yippee!

[dacaumodo]

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[dacaumodo]

Hi all
First apologies if this has been asked before (I did a quick search and couldn't find anything really relevant, but I may have overlooked important keywords)

Second, I hope this FR thread is still active (?)

I'd like to be able, in the midi clip editor, to randomize some parameters, just like in XT 1.4 composer...

Also, is a groove editor in the works? I haven't used it much so far, but I'm looking into it now (in XT 1.4, by the way if you guys have interesting groove templates to share...I need to discover this aspect)

Lastly, more quantize options would be nice; for intance, quantize notes ends instead as well as starts, quantize note lengths,...and the ability to randomize those , something even more precise than the groove editor.

[fandango]

"Quantize Lengths" - I really miss this from the MIDI editor.

Priority for me would be right click:
-VST
-Replace
-Recent

Oh yeah. +1

[Ja.x]

Time/Bar counter!!!!! (yep, once again on this topic ). It's a basic feature on any host/sequencer, no?

[Sickle]

"Quantize Lengths" - I really miss this from the MIDI editor.

Priority for me would be right click:
-VST
-Replace
-Recent

Oh yeah. +1

Yep.

And for the love of God, please give us back the old mixer comp for the main window!

[aMUSEd]

Priority for me would be right click:
-VST
-Replace
-Recent
(and drag and drop from OS into mixer)

Also the bug with not releasing RAM after deleting a VST would be a wonderful fix for the next beta. Add in saving shortcuts, and I think people will be happy for next week.

Me too - replace was essential - now you constantly have to break auto connects to add a substitute VST.

[aMUSEd]

The arp was better too.

[fandango]

The arp was better too.

This is debatable though. I love the new arp, but for arguments sake I think it's closer in functionality to the "Chords" comp than the "Arpeggiator" comp. I for one love the way the arpeggiation sequences start correctly now (something that blights a vast number of arps), which never happened in the XT1 version.

[soma]

OT

I too liked the old arp, because you could program a pattern but the random in the new on is nice. For me a perfect arp would be a step sequencer that uses chord info.

For example, let's suppose you've programmed a four-step pattern with note transpositions of 0, 2, 5, and -2. If you hold only one key on the keyboard, such as a D, the pattern will produce the series D-E-G-C. But when you hold a D minor triad (D, F, A), the arpeggiator will apply a different transposition to each note in the arpeggio. This table shows the result:

Chord, Note, Transposition Output
D 0 D
F 2 G
A 5 octave D
D -2 C
F 0 F
A 2 B
D 5 G
F -2 Eb
A 0 A
D 2 E
F 5 Bb
etc.

take a look at this article and the Virsyn TERA arp.
http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/pub/a/o ... tml?page=2

along the lines of right click Replace, it would be nice to have "insert" to add an effect auto connected. anyway, that's not an old feature.