You know, on a similar note, I wound up making a plugin not too long ago for
the purpose of registering qtz files and plugins from an arbitrary location. It
could pretty easily be edited to allow a user to load qtz's into the patch list
from their own folder, separate from the Quartz Composer Patches stuff, which
would be good for the sake of organization. If there's any interest in that,
I'd consider cleaning that up and releasing as time allows.
Doesn't help your desire to flatten per patch, but I'm reminded of the issues
you were having on Migration, and having to sort Apple stuff from personal
stuff. You could keep one folder in Documents or something, to load personal
stuff from, for example.
-gt
On May 18, 2012, at 10:54 AM, Alastair Leith wrote:
> Thanks George. I was hoping to convert on an individual-patch-basis when I
> determine that I need to make a one-off change to a regularly used Virtual
> Macro… Guess I have to choose Edit Patch… in Patch Library window's menu and
> select-all, copy, paste, make macro, rewire noodles from old patch. Or use
> flatten if that suits the situation.
>
> Strange the Release Notes reference to default behaviour ("By default, macros
> added…") when there doesn't seem to be any other behaviour available. Unless
> it's a nod to the fact that, as you indicated, Clips can be added to Library.
> Although I haven't been able to confirm that one.
>
> I tried copying my Clips from OLD_HD/Library/Application
> Support/Apple/Developer Tools/Quartz Composer/Clips to
> Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Apple/Developer Tools/Quartz
> Composer/Clips (which already had 4 clips that must have been migrated from
> somewhere the BCM2000 ones (Behringer) but none of these clips are appearing
> in QC's Library after a reboot of QC… :-\
>
>
> The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but
> plunges him more deeply into them.
> Antoine de Saint-Exupery
>
> On 18/05/2012, at 11:14 PM, George Toledo wrote:
>
>> You flatten the composition.
>>
>> You should be able to choose "Option" while looking at the Save menu, and
>> there should be an option to save a flattened version of the qtz file. That
>> will make the previously "virtual patches" turn into regular, editable
>> macros.
>>
>> Clips behavior is still active, just not present in the GUI. If you store
>> your macros in the valid clip folder (can't remember where that is at the
>> moment), QC will still load the macro into the Patch Library and let you use
>> it like a clip.
>>
>> -gt
>>
>> On May 18, 2012, at 9:13 AM, Alastair Leith wrote:
>>
>>> In the release notes for QC 4.6:
>>> A Virtual Macro is a reference to a composition that allows the composition
>>> to be used in multiple places, requiring only changes to the original
>>> composition when updates are needed. By default, macros added to a
>>> composition from the Patch Library are added as Virtual Macros.
>>>
>>> I can't find anyway to get a 'non-default' behaviour from the Patch Library
>>> does it exist?
>>>
>>> A way to add a Virtual Macro converted to a regular Macro (as clips were in
>>> QC 3) would be nice. Even better the ability to embed a virtual macro
>>> already used in the composition as a normal macro that can be opened and
>>> edited would be great. There's a way to do this, right?
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