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toadology ·
Just played with it for the past three hours and am steadily enjoying it more and more. Well here's my two cents...
A kill button would be nice when the sound gets a little out of control. I was messing with delays and I entered the wrong setting and got the ever-crescendo-ing delay from hell. Would have been nice to have a nice sized red button to press to automatically shut off the sound and save my ears.
Also, I thought it would be nice to have a floating top window so I wouldn't have to scroll back to the left and lose focus while I played with the sliders on my VSTi just to see how something worked. If their was a floating (sizable would be great) window in the corner it would speed things up for me. I can't stop playing with the damn knobs and sliders while I'm building...
Thanks again for taking the time to make this. I'm looking forward to 1.0
Toadology
malc ·
Hi toadology,
Welcome to the forum. Thanks very much for your feedback. I like the idea of the 'panic button' for killing the sound.
You'll be pleased to hear that your top window idea is already in the offing along with some other features to make GUI editing simpler and easier. I can't say exactly when these features will appear but it won't be long.
Thanks for trying the software, glad you like it.
malc ·
toadology,
I'd be interested to know what you'd like for the kill button. I can see two possibilities. Either a single push button that stops all notes, clears buffers and kills the sound or a switch for turning the audio on or off.
The idea behind the on/off switch is that you can quickly turn the audio off while you correct the problem, then put it back on again.
Personally I think the single push button is simpler and less confusing but it may not give you what you need.
If anyone else has any thoughts please let me know as we'd like to put this feature into the software soon.
Thanks.
toadology ·
I think this option would be better for the situation that I find occuring on my system.
Either a single push button that stops all notes, clears buffers and kills the sound
If I set up a short delay interval (very small sample number) with a long decay rate (close to 100%), I get a situation where my system seems to overload. I'm guessing it's from the multitude of repitions that it is trying to process. A complete buffer flush would be nice for this.
Also, sometimes after pressing a key to hear a note, the sound plays as normal then after it stops, my computer gets laggy for a 10 - 15 second interval and my CPU meter shoots up to around 70%. If there was a button to clear the buffers and stop sound processing, then I'm guessing I could avoid the freeze up.
If making a panic button that only mutes the sound is easier to implement, then I'm OK with that, but the more control the better I think.
Toadology
malc ·
Thanks for that. I think the push button option is the most appropriate so we'll go for that one then 🙂
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