Re: [Traverso-devel] trying latest CVS

[Jonatan Liljedahl]

Remon wrote:
>> ALSA.
>> By the way, is it hard to put in a menubox to choose the alsa devices
>> (input and output)?
> 
> Not sure what you mean here, selecting one of the available sound cards, or 
> the so called subdevices of an audiocard, the playback/capture buses ?
> The Settings page has the ability allready to choose full/half duplex mode, 
> but I think thats not what you have in mind.... 

No, the available sound devices (could be cards or virtual devices set
up by the user in ~/.alsarc...)

>> I think it would be great if the Q menu could show *all* key actions
>> that would do anything on the pointed area. The ones specific for that
>> area could be on top, with a separator between them and the others.
> 
> In cvs, please see if it is what you had in mind, the way it is in cvs now is 
> kinda what I had in mind for some time now, but there is certainly room for 
> more improvements.

That's great!

> The curveview by default adds a gain curve to AudioClips, not to tracks right 
> now

I think it would be nice if both were possible. I can think of times
when you want to compose curves over a range of time which contains many
clips.

> The plugin vs gain/fader vs curve/plugin view didn't yield a clear view or 
> strategy, but currently I favor somewhat this solution:
> 
> 
> * Only a plugin view, no dedicated curve view since that one only will show 
> 1 - 2 gain curves anyways, and will be mostly a duplicate of the plugin view
> 
> * The gain (or fader if you like) of a Track/AudioClip is by default a Plugin 
> with a default value and a curve. The curve part is disabled by default, and 
> this fader plugin doesn't show up by default either in the plugin view
> 
> * When 'adding' the 'fader' plugin, to be able to draw a gain curve, the real 
> thing that happens is that it becomes visible, and the curve part becomes 
> active
> 
> * Adding other plugins can be done in the same way (<< P >> , or some other 
> action), so you get a clear view what is pre and post fader, since the fade 
> plugin will have special look (some kind of different color/shape)
> 
> A minor variant on the above: Always show the Fader plugin, but greyed out in 
> Plugin Mode.

This sounds very good!

>>> But you obviously have a point here. Painting the whole clip, or just its
>>> contour, what do you think ?
>> The whole clip, just like [D] drag!
> 
> Now you mention this, I think it might be the most easy way to first create a 
> copy, and then use the copy in the MoveClip class, like faking a [ D ] 
> action ;-)

Sure! =)

>>>> - i think it would be good to always play from the work cursor when
>>>> pressing SPACE, but continuing from last playpos when pressing something
>>>> other... (you most often want to replay a part instead of continuing)
>>> Anyone a suggestion on this one ?
>> On the other hand, doing W and SPACE is quite fast too... So it's not a
>> big problem.
> 
> What about << SPACE >> ?

Perfect.

>> Yes, what do you want? =)
> 
> LOL, you don't wanna know, do you ? :-P

I do! =)

Btw, how can I get the "original" traverso theme back?
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