[nama] Re: Hotkeys

  • From: Joy Bausch <joybausch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Julien Claassen <julien@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 01:25:40 -0500

@Julien:
yep, now we're talking. :) :) Command-line control, Hotkey control.
Would be killer! 'Nuff said.

Joy

2013/7/20, Julien Claassen <julien@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi Joy!
>    How about this: you have the good old mode with all its commands. Then in
>
> any mode you can switch from command to hotkey. In hotkey mode you can:
> change tracks, easily adjust vol/pan, switch between other effects, adjust
> effect parameters.
>    For examples sake:
> livemix
> shift+up-arrow: track up (tracks are listed by numbers)
> shift+dwn: one track down
> shift+right: next effect on current track
> shift+left: previous effect on current track
> right: next parameter
> left: previous parameter
> up: increase parameter value fine
> down: decrease fine
> pageup: increase coarse
> ...
> s: decrease volume fine
> d: increase volume fine
> a/f: de/increase volume coarse
> m: mute
> shift+m: unmute
> x: solo
> X: unsolo
>    Something like that. Whynot the different modes? They could be a little
> confusing and I'm not sure, how well you could maintain more than one hotkey
>
> mode.
>    Besides: this is not a mode in terms of processing as in doodle, preview,
>
> arm, mixdown. Even the midish_mode is a little different.
>    The disadvantage of my idea: you'd have more hotkeys and you'd have to
> really think the keys through to make them easy to remember and the whole
> thing really intuitive and fast.
>    The plus: you could have "fast realtime" acess inany of Nama's modes. You
>
> could even carry through SPACE for start and stop and think about moving
> other
> features into this mode, as we go down the road. It won't be able to handle
>
> everything, as I have pinted out, adding effects and everything, that
> requires
> names, labels and paths, but all your typical live adjustment could in
> theory
> be put into such a mode.
>    Sorry Joel, if I seem to go very fast here, but it's only for argument's
>
> sake right now. and once a hotkey mode is in place, a lot of things could be
>
> carried through. In my opinion it wouldn't even be too hard, since you could
 >
> reuse a lot of functions, that already are present in the code.
>    Warmly yours
>           Julien
>
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