Feature request for Pro edition: select note for editing by playing it

The addition that I mention at the end would make this feature still stronger: it would let us cycle through all of the Note edit pages while focusing on the one note, without having to use the mouse.

Hi Glenn.

Do you see that I'm speaking of selecting the note to edit with the physical midi keyboard? So we could: Play the note, and then move the mod wheel or a knob to move the vertical bar for that note up or down on the current Note Edit page.

The idea is to avoid having to use the mouse at all, so that the size issue goes away, and we both save a step (clicking) in editing and don't have to go back and forth between the mouse and the keyboard. Everything could be done with just the midi keyboard, its mod wheel or one knob, and ideally two buttons attached to cc's for the Previous and Next Note edit panes. (Or perhaps just to Page down and Page up, but then we would have to use the computer keyboard...)

That looks like interesting ideas, we will keep them in mind.

Yeah, I know, I'm just lazy.  ;^)

Sheesh, they're already trying to change the interface around and I might not have even finished finding bugs in the current version!

Well, I'll still try to find as many left over bugs as I can access in the trial version.  I tend to mess around a bit when I get tired of trying to play with settings and usually spot incorrect things that way.

I've had a few intermittent issues that seem difficult to duplicate but I keep on trying (and I'll have to see if the same thing happens in the windows version too) but I won't bother reporting it until I can figure out what might be the issue.

So that's two slight interface issues I've sent in during the past week and one more if I can figure out a bit more of what might be happening.

I only have access to two note edit screens in the trial though so I can't do too much testing there.  The one thing I did notice is that the bold "display" of the current value is based on a mouse-over type even and if you scroll a control point off that window you lose the value being displayed there.  Not too big of a deal, I suppose.

About the only thing that some people might like a bit more is to actually see numbers instead of sliders when going note by note to more easily see how the values change rather than having to right click everywhere.

Oh great...there I go suggesting interface changes.

The sliders might have numeric readouts to their right or left that gave their settings.

Thirded.  (With an interface "growth spurt" option. ;^)

The keyboard use wouldn't _have_ to be mandatory -- you could still click on the number box and treat it like a knob/slider via MIDI learn.  But the "visual feedback" would disappear, and I don't think anyone wants that.

This slider/number scenario would be a good compromise, but the interface would require a sudden growth spurt.  (Or the sliders would have to atrophy.) 

So, to summarize:

(A) Select individual note on keyboard and have interface values change _only_ for that note (with corresponding changes made in "Note Edit" land).  See Mario's example!

(B) Add numeric readouts to side of each slider, thus negating the need for right-clicking to input a value.  (Heck, we could even _tab_ between the boxes, forward and shift-tab backward.!)

But I think that the idea is to be able to see all of the settings at once, instead of just the one that the user is currently changing.

You're worried, however, about cluttering the interface with numbers? It's a problem. How about a separate pane that opens, and could be detached, showing just a list of the parameters and their settings, something like the basic list of parameter settings that many sequencers have for vsti's to show the instrument without the interface, but with better design--something like the Presets list? Cantablile and Reaper have a basic list like this. The one problem is that the list of settings is so long that you have to scroll down it to find things, which goes against the entire idea of being able to see everything at once...

And in Note edit mode (after middle-clicking per EvilDragon), when the user pressed a note, turning it red, this list would reflect all of the settings for the one note? And maybe let the user copy all of the settings to another note? Perhaps there would be a check box next to each parameter in the list: Copy checked parameter settings. Press another note. Paste parameter settings.

Middle-click again, turning off Note edit mode, and the list reflects the general settings for the preset.

Forgive us, Philippe, Niclas, and Julien...

Well...I like the drag and drop part.

Not sure I like having to use the Ctl and Alt keys. My thought was to make it possible with just a mouse on the midi keyboard, cutting out the need for a computer keyboard...

I think the newer Macs have usb ports, so they can use any mouse, now. (I'd forgotten this earlier...)

Freeze parameters for each note? Julien will shoot us. Or do you just mean using the current Freeze thing to keep some elements of the preset stable? That would be good. That would be very good.

Hey, just FYI, I've used a Kensington Orbit Optical Trackball since about 2002 or so -- I absolutely can't _stand_ mice, especially ANY of the ones invented by Apple (and the more recent models are all right-clickable [or pressable], you must realize!). 

Oddly enough, I'm the one who shows all the "PC users" (who, clearly, should never be confused with PC experts) at work when/where they should be right-clicking in their various programs. 

:-)

Off topic feature request: Please, make some really old cranked pianos. (Or just  an easy way to make the sound more worn-out and faulty)
Somehow I'm fascinated by the pulverized pianos' sound I can find at old schools and basements

EDIT: Also, how are the uprights developing?