Hi All, Wow, lots of questions - I thought news of a new version would spark discussion, it's good.
1. Bugs. Brian, you know I don't normally admit what bugs I've found, I just fix them ... or try to. I might confirm that something is a bug if someone else finds it though. But on this occasion, I'll say what it was: moving to previous and next data in the track view wasn't reliable. No-one found it, does no-one use CTRL+LEFT and RIGHT? Well, they wouldn't if it didn't work properly! 2. Swing. Arthur has described this well. But I'll try and explain, without using time signatures: A regularly quantised series of notes will all be the same length, like this (now this should get interesting with speech synthesisers for those who use them): dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, If you swing that, you would get one long note, then a shorter one, like this: dum,, duh dum,, duh dum,, duh dum,, The amount of swing can be varied from what we shall call "straight", meaning totally regular, right through to totally over the top where the second note is played at the same time as the third, the fourth and fifth together and so on. You can even do a "reverse swing", where notes are moved earlier instead of later like this: duh dum,, duh dum,, duh dum,, duh Oh this is beginning to get confusing again, I'll stop writing. It's easier explained when you have the function to experiment with. 3. Auto channel split. Yes Leonard, this suggestion is on the list. It would be quite useful if you work a lot with type 0 MIDI files, but I find it quite quick to press ALT T M S. 4. Block operations. Copy and pasting of multiple tracks is also on the suggestions list. I still need to work out how best to do this though because a simplistic approach could result in what you were trying to copy getting zapped during the process. 5. HTML Help. Yes, the HTML Help viewer does work better with Hal/Supernova than the older WinHelp system, but my primary reason is that apparently Vista no longer supports Windows Help (.HLP), only HTML help (CM). Hence my question, how many people are using Vista? Well, that's enough for now. Hope this helps. James. To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com
