*Louigi feedback February 2010*
Tech feedback (functionality and functionality bugs)
1. When you add a triple oscillator, the BB editor shows no steps and no way
to enter piano roll. Workaround - to save and reload project. Another way -
add a new BB pattern - in that new pattern the steps will be displayed, but
not in any others.
2. When you copy piano roll track from one pattern of BB editor to another
(without entering the piano roll), the steps of the track to which you copy
disappear. If you save and reload project, you will see that no copying has
occurred. Workaround - to enter piano roll, do Ctrl-A Ctrl-C, then go to the
piano roll of the other pattern and do Ctrl-V.
(note: copying piano roll within a patter from one track to another works
fine)
3. When changing the volume of an instrument from a small value to a large
value quickly (to create a gate effect) you hear clicks. That was tried with
two methods - automation editor and controller - but both had the same
result: fast changes of parameters result in clicks.
4. Automation editor does not read volume changes at the 1/64 level (when
experimenting with the gate effect). Possibly the problem is not in the
automation editor but in the inability of LMMS to change volumes so quickly
- since slower changes result in clicks, faster changes might simply be
ignored.
5. Changes in automation editor do not mark the file dirty.
6. Sometimes the mixer will not move. Trying to move it will result in
plugin lists just becoming empty so you have to click tabs A-B-C-D on it to
refresh it or either toggle it with F9. It will show the contents but until
you reload project mixer will not move.
7. Sometimes when exporting the project, once it exported, there will be
non-ending clicks, very loud, as if an echo plugin was triggered. The
resulting wave file might have clicks in the beginning or end as well, but
not always.
8. Db numbers are required near(above) the mixer graph or slider so that one
could see how much db the sound is - important when doing compression.
9. Sometimes the project will open with all windows blank. A pretty known
bug, I guess, I've seen it through many versions. Workaround here is to just
retoggle the windows with their shortcuts (F5,F6,F9).
10. Controller knobs cannot be linked to another controller. When I am
trying to do that it says that a loop is detected. I understand that this is
a workaround so that something does not go crazy, however, in FL Studio I've
linked controllers to each other (which can be extremely useful) and it was
fine. Also, I do not see what loop can be created. If I link an amount knob
to another controller - what can go wrong? I might be missing something
here, but linking at least some parameters of controllers themselves should
be possible.
Usability feedback
1. The BB editor badly needs grouping tracks or auto shrinking once it
encounters boundaries, like in FL Studio. It gets long very fast and it is
very difficult to scroll through it. Sometimes it will be out of bounds, but
the main LMMS workplace for some reason will not create a scroll bar and you
have to press F6 again and then scroll. The point is that it is more okay to
loose the bottom parts of BB editor, but the top one has got to always stay
in view.
2. Sometimes the theme of LMMS would suddenly change to standard gray.
Usually, a reaction to other applications being opened, like browsers.
Couple of times it happened while I was working with RemoteZyn, once when I
was browsing Internet with Firefox in parallel.
3. Giving color to individual blocks in the song editor makes sense,
especially given that you can create unqiue blocks in one row, but it would
also be nice to be able to give color to the whole row at once. Right now if
you decide to color the blocks later, you have to do it one by one or
replace them.
4. When painting the song editor blocks, if you add custom color in color
dialog it will add the color to the selected block. By default the first one
is selected and you end up erasing it all the time. Suggested fix would be
to add to the next empty slot automatically.
5. When exporting the song there is no "end" token to put so almost all
exports of a song cut off the ending sounds, especially if you have long
volume envelope tails and delay effects. The workaround is to put an empty
pattern in the end, but would be nice to be able to define the ending point
of the export yourself.
Hope this helps!
Louigi Verona.
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