Re: Parameters - Re: SDK Available
Re: Parameters - Re: SDK Available
- Subject: Re: Parameters - Re: SDK Available
- From: "Chris Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 15:26:41 -0600
On Sat, 3 May 2003 12:00:22 +0200, "Urs Heckmann" <email@hidden> said:
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Am Freitag, 02.05.03, um 02:14 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb Bill Stewart:
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> Any other glaring or otherwise comments or concerns?
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Ah, an invitation! - Nothing glaring, but some sort of anti-headache
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agent...
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One old thing I'd like to bring up again is metadata for parameters.
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Something that could enhance user experience would the ability to build
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groups of parameters. - In an automation driven environment, these
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groups could be the organizing structure for hierarchical menues when
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selecting automation tracks. Furtherly, the generic view could adopt
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some strategies to seperate groups visualy. Obviously, this is
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important for plugins with many parameters.
I'd like this.. It'd make separation of parameters for each instrument in
Ritmo much easier, for one thing.
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Well, "groups" could have their own presets or at least settings could
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be loaded seperately from preset xy into current user preset (One could
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think of additionaly data keys in the settings for this). - Of course,
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one could do this anyway now, but a general way might be more
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consistent than isolated solutions. Some sort of discussion might be
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necessary. Example: The good old Ensoniq synths/samplers have presets
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for envelopes etc. Very useful.
Cool idea. But UI for this would probably be best implemented in the AU's
custom editor, which makes it questionable as to whether a generic API is
necessary. More talking about it needed :)
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[snip]
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One buggy thing I came across that's somehow related (Generic View):
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My current work has no custom gui yet, so the generic view jumps in.
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Half of the parameters disappear in nirvana below my monitor 8-)). The
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generic view should become a little smarter and waste less screen
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estate...
Already filed with Rader, although I couldn't tell you the bug number
now.. Also can't remember what state it's in.
-chris
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