Re: Volume control on playback

[Lib Lists]

On Fri, 29 Oct 2021 at 11:03, Richard Shann <richard@rshann.plus.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2021-10-28 at 21:04 +0300, Lib Lists wrote:
> > Hi Richard,
> >
> > On Thu, 28 Oct 2021 at 19:33, Richard Shann <richard@rshann.plus.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I've improved the control over the output volume on playback. The
> > > Volume Control slider in the Playback Controls panel
> >
> > I was unable to find it.
>
> View->Playback Control
> documented at section 3.4 of the manual
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=denemo.git;a=blob_plain;f=docs/denemo-manual.html;hb=HEAD#entry-Playback-Controls-0
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> or with pictures Fn1 when running Denemo.
>
> I see there is also an entry marked simply "Playback", which is
> confusing, that is for bringing up the Playback View, I've re-labelled
> that.
>
> Richard
>

Thank you Richard, for some reason I was unable to find it...
Works well here (Lubuntu 20.04, under Virtual Box 6.1.26 on Catalina 10.5.7)
I added a fortissimo dynamic to a passage and no audible distortion
(with host and virtual system at maximum volume, and the slider too).
The slider range seems good to me.
Thank you!

A note on the visual appearance of the Playback Control buttons. At
first it was confusing for me to find the play and stop buttons as
they are light grey on a light grey background. The record button also
was hard to find as it is black, and that's not the colour I usually
associate with a recording button. Same with play, that I usually
associate with green or with the most visible button. However, I see
that green and red are used for the playback markers. I'd probably
make the stop button black, the play button green (and orange when
paused) and the record button red. But I should think more about it
and open another discussion. Thank you so much for your work.