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- From: cczdvh@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (David Valentine-Hagart)
- Subject: Re: GENERIC Synth Patch Editor Code (1/2)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.143226.11221@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Sender: news@cs.nott.ac.uk
- Organization: Cripps Confusing Centre, University of Nottingham
- References: <1993Jan15.111530.2895@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> <1993Jan19.163123.22084@aston.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 14:32:26 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan19.163123.22084@aston.ac.uk> wrighttj@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Auntie Tim) writes:
- >Okay, I pulled this down and had a play with it....
-
- Me too, and it is a nice looking bit of software though I couldn't play
- too deeply as I have a Kawai K4 and when I phoned Waterfall Digital re
- availability of a K4 module the phone went unanswered..
- The price is good too and compares very well as it's a once only product
- for all the synths you have modules for, perhaps they supply the module
- of your choice for the basic price and then a fee for extra modules as I'm
- sure we don't ALL have TX81z or U110 as supplied with the demo.
-
- >4 - The load up time stinks. I'm running TOS 1.4 off a Sysquest
-
- Im running TOS 1.6 and a floppy and it took about as long, I thought the
- program had hung ! There's no need for a 1.5 minute advert for Waterfall
- Digital every time you run the thing !! A BIG no-no.
-
- Other niggles.. there are some annoying inconsistencies in that some sliders
- diplay the numeric values while other sliders / dials don't, this could be
- a pain where guesswork just isn't quite good enough. How about some calibration
- instead of those great big arrows, or even a pop up value display whenever a
- slider / dial is adjusted.
-
- I didn't much like those enormous horizontal selection buttons. Functional,
- but for a graphical editor hardly elegant. A lot of this stuff would be much
- better accessed from a menu bar IMHO.
-
- However, I really liked the mouse driven control of sliders and dials and
- editing of velocity/keyscale/filter curves and also setting of keyboard
- zones etc instead of just using it to increment decrement values, much more
- like real "control panel".
-
- The authors make no reference to testing alongside popular sequencers, CUBASE
- springs immediately to my mind :-> Im going to keep trying the phone no. and
- hit them with all the above before I invest.
-
- DeeVeeH
-