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Oh boy oh boy! More work for Jorgen. Every time I fill a page, I post. :P

1. When loading or saving something, eXT should remember what dir (folder) you were last at so you don't have to navigate down 6 or 8 levels every time you want to load a sound or midi file or whatever.

I have 400 gigs of storage in this box, partitioned into quite a few logical drives. I don't store everything in the root of c: Good god! The dir would be miles long! :shock:

2. When I navigate to a dir with a lot of files, I have to wait quite a long time before the dir updates with the new file list. At first I thought it was a bug, but it turns out that eXT must be just slow at reading dirs.

3. A 'MIDI Event List' screen would be nice someday. Sometimes it's the only way to clarify exactly what's happening when you have strangeness in playback. Should be a relatively easy thing to code too.

4. An odd thing: eXT sorts filenames very differently than windoze does. This isn't necessarily bad, but can be VERY confusing till you figure out what's going on. (Huh? Where's my files??? :-o )

5. Sometimes when I delete a track, I get an error box saying something like, "Exception at xxxxx". I didn't write down the number. It seems random - I can't replicate it.

6. The sequencer seems incapable of playing this MIDI file correctly http://www.ghmicro.com/robotics/midi.html

I think the hat durations are too long and overlap the next hit. All other MIDI players I've tested the file with DO play it correctly.
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futz wrote:3. A 'MIDI Event List' screen would be nice someday. Sometimes it's the only way to clarify exactly what's happening when you have strangeness in playback.
There is an event editor. Double click on a midi part to open the Midi editor. Click and drag right the left of the midi editor to show the Event List (have a play around until you drag the right thing)
futz wrote:Sometimes when I delete a track, I get an error box saying something like, "Exception at xxxxx". I didn't write down the number. It seems random - I can't replicate it.
I do too, seems to only happen for me when I delete the blank tracks that eXT puts in when I choose to do a new project. Forgot to mention this earlier! :oops: eXT doesn't crash though

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futz wrote:1. When loading or saving something, eXT should remember what dir (folder) you were last at so you don't have to navigate down 6 or 8 levels every time you want to load a sound or midi file or whatever.
I totally agree about the folder memory, it's very annoying having to "renavigate" every time you want to add new sample. This is very similar to my thread "default samples folder", if the two could be implemented it would make life much easier :)

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There is an event editor.
Well I'll be damned! So there is! And a very cool way of presenting it too. Very quick and easy to get at. Nice work Jorgen!

But it isn't available in the sequencer as far as I can tell (yet :wink: )

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can't you just double-click on a midi part on a midi track in the sequencer, and open the event editor in there? :) i thought it was in there too :?:

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can't you just double-click on a MIDI part on a MIDI track in the sequencer, and open the event editor in there? i thought it was in there too
Oh ya! That works! Cool!

Geesh! Someone NEEDS to write a manual for this thing! But it's a moving target for now. Tough job rewriting parts constantly.

The line you click/drag to open the event editor needs a "handle". Just something small and inobtrusive that makes it obvious that "this is where to grab it".

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this is the ultimate manual right here in this forum ;) :lol:

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6. The sequencer seems incapable of playing this MIDI file correctly http://www.ghmicro.com/robotics/midi.html
A quick length quantize cured it, but eXT really shouldn't choke on something like that, even tho the MIDI file is obviously badly flawed.

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There is an event editor.
Hmmm... It doesn't seem to be an editor. Just an event list. If it is possible to edit stuff in it, I don't see how. Oh well, it's a start...

The event list is one thing that Cakewalk really does right. Would hope that eXT's would eventually rival or surpass it.

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Hi Futz
You can delete and mute events. Click on an event and press Delete key to delete it, or choose from Edit menu to mute events. As far as editing note events you still have the midi editor there to do that. You can't directly edit Program Change messages though AFAIK, only delete them. I think someone made a synth edit plug to record program change messages

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I love this thread - actually I wanted to start something similar myself, but I have been too lazy :oops: - thanks to futz for having started it :D

I think it should be made a sticky :idea: - Jorgen?
(I'd call it 'workflow-features' or something like this)

I have three more suggestions:

- I think it would be great if the midi-fx would have
a bypass-button

- the synths have in the sequencer's mixer an edit-button - why not the midi-fx, the inserts and the send-fx?

- shortcuts are great, but sometimes handling things with the mouse can be quicker:
I would love it if we were able to just left-click and drag on the keyboard instead of using page up/down for scrolling the piano-roll while in-track-editing midi



:)
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I tried to suggest that the MIDI event list also be an editor but was pretty much ignored. I would love to be able to edit stuff in there, as well as be able to see more info.

Sometimes it's very difficult to edit velocities in MIDI parts. Particularly for drums where so many notes line up. Sometimes when you select a single note, it's velocity stays behind another note's velocity and you have no idea if you're even changing it!

It would make things so much easier if we could edit in the event list or maybe have a "note solo" in the piano roll, so only the notes and velocities for a certain row (note) are displayed and editable.

(BTW, hi futz and welcome to the energyXT forum. I was just down at the beach, walking from Kits to Granville Island and back again, but now I'm in at work. Gorgeous weather we're having, eh?)

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Agreed - count me in for this one.
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Which one?

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pough wrote:Which one?
Yours :D - the editable MIDI Event List (Muzys does it quite well too)
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