Feature request

[Nigel Henry-3]

I have version 0.6.7 on Fedora Core 2, installed as an rpm from planetccrma.
My sounds library has 1000's of .wav files, and have to listen to many before
choosing one to load.

At the moment I have to perform 3 actions to listen to a file. First, select
the file, which opens the box asking how you want to deal with it. Then check
the option I want, and then press the comma key.

As a feature would it be possible to have another button in the file tab,
perhaps named "preview file", so that you could, with a single mouse click
listen to files, then when you have found one you like, you can click on the
"load file" button, and load it?

I also installed version 0.6.8 on Fedora Core 5 from Fedora extras, thinking
that such a feature might now exist, but no joy.

Many thanks for Soundtracker.

Nigel.

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[Yury Aliaev]

Hi, Nigel!
>
> At the moment I have to perform 3 actions to listen to a file. First, select
> the file, which opens the box asking how you want to deal with it. Then check
> the option I want, and then press the comma key.

This is because you have stereo wav files, and ST don't know what do you
want to do with them -- load one of the channels or mix both.

>
> As a feature would it be possible to have another button in the file tab,
> perhaps named "preview file", so that you could, with a single mouse click
> listen to files, then when you have found one you like, you can click on the
> "load file" button, and load it?

For monophonic samples and instruments this is true. You should just
select the file and after this you can listen to it. The only natural
way to do what you want is I mean the stereo samples support in ST (this
topic already have been discussing several times).

Best regards,
Yury.

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[Nigel Henry-3]

On Wednesday 14 March 2007 07:58, Yury Aliaev wrote:

> Hi, Nigel!
>
> > At the moment I have to perform 3 actions to listen to a file. First,
> > select the file, which opens the box asking how you want to deal with it.
> > Then check the option I want, and then press the comma key.
>
> This is because you have stereo wav files, and ST don't know what do you
> want to do with them -- load one of the channels or mix both.
>
> > As a feature would it be possible to have another button in the file tab,
> > perhaps named "preview file", so that you could, with a single mouse
> > click listen to files, then when you have found one you like, you can
> > click on the "load file" button, and load it?
>
> For monophonic samples and instruments this is true. You should just
> select the file and after this you can listen to it. The only natural
> way to do what you want is I mean the stereo samples support in ST (this
> topic already have been discussing several times).
>
> Best regards,
> Yury.

Sorry Yury for the late reply. I do see that I have a mix of 1 channel, and 2
channel .wav files.

I don't want to compare one tracker to another, as that isn't fair, but I
recently installed Leonard Ritter's Aldrin, and although I'm having problems
finding out how to use it, when accessing my sound library, I can can click
on a file, whether it's stereo, or mono, and it instantly plays it. If I want
to use it as an insrument, I just double click on it.

I have more than 17000 .wav files in my sounds library, and it would be nice
to have something similar in Soundtracker, where I can click on a sample,
irrespective of whether it's stereo or mono, and just hear the sound. Then if
I want to use the sample, I could double click, and in the case of a mono
sample it would be loaded as an instrument, and in the case of a stereo
sample the box would be displayed asking how you want to handle the stereo
sample.

Please don't get me wrong. Soundtracker is yours, not mine. I'm just trying to
make things easier for myself, and these are just suggestions. If changes
can't be made, I'll just work with it as it is.

Disregarding my complaints, this is a nice tracker Yury.

Nigel.
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[Yury Aliaev]

Hi, Nigel!

>
> Sorry Yury for the late reply. I do see that I have a mix of 1 channel, and 2
> channel .wav files.
>
> I don't want to compare one tracker to another, as that isn't fair, but I
> recently installed Leonard Ritter's Aldrin, and although I'm having problems
> finding out how to use it, when accessing my sound library, I can can click
> on a file, whether it's stereo, or mono, and it instantly plays it. If I want
> to use it as an insrument, I just double click on it.
>
> I have more than 17000 .wav files in my sounds library, and it would be nice
> to have something similar in Soundtracker, where I can click on a sample,
> irrespective of whether it's stereo or mono, and just hear the sound. Then if
> I want to use the sample, I could double click, and in the case of a mono
> sample it would be loaded as an instrument, and in the case of a stereo
> sample the box would be displayed asking how you want to handle the stereo
> sample.

I like your idea, too :) For mono samples everything is Ok in ST: the
sample is immediately loading by the single click, so you don't need a
preview. But this is not true for stereo samples, where a dialog is
appeared. So it's a good idea to make a kind of sample/instrument
preview, at least as an option. So I'll include this in TODO list for
Gtk-2 port of ST. Currently I don't have enough resources for adequate
maintaning Gtk-1 ST version (current stable), so why I'm planning this
only for Gtk-2 ST.

>
> Please don't get me wrong. Soundtracker is yours, not mine. I'm just trying to
> make things easier for myself, and these are just suggestions. If changes
> can't be made, I'll just work with it as it is.
>
> Disregarding my complaints, this is a nice tracker Yury.

Thanks :-)

Yury.

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