Textquencer session notes kludge?

GUB

Would Textquencer make a serviceable session notepad for ApeMatrix/ AUv3-hosting daws? I don't know how the former works, but assuming it saves presets that are strings of text, is there any reason it wouldn't work as a session-specific note pad? I assume it doesn't have any formatting options. Are there other limitations?

wim

I don't have an answer, but that's a clever idea.

I've long wanted to make an AU notepad for such purposes. I had hopes for Session Notes AU, but it's not suitable for that purpose since it only allows you to recall pre-made notes and doesn't save/recall the note in the host session.

GUB

Yeah, I saw those criticisms floating around. So, once you create a note, you can't later edit it? And eventually you end up with potentially a super-long list of notes available in each session?

I was thinking Textquencer might address the save/recall issue that SN AU has. Plus, I can't really justify buying another midi generator. I have a folder full of them that I have yet to really touch. But I could use a notepad that sticks notes to sessions... especially if it incidentally produced midi streams

@wim said:
I don't have an answer, but that's a clever idea.

I've long wanted to make an AU notepad for such purposes. I had hopes for Session Notes AU, but it's not suitable for that purpose since it only allows you to recall pre-made notes and doesn't save/recall the note in the host session.

wim

@GUB said:
Yeah, I saw those criticisms floating around. So, once you create a note, you can't later edit it? And eventually you end up with potentially a super-long list of notes available in each session?

You can edit notes after you create them in Session Notes. But yes, you just end up with a long, flat list of notes. The app doesn't re-load the note that was displayed when you saved the host session. So to make any use of it you'd have to save the note with a title that matched the session name, and you'd have to scroll through the list to find the note you need to display every time. Even saving presets in the host doesn't reload the note.

Unfortunately, just not practical for anything that I can think of.

I was thinking Textquencer might address the save/recall issue that SN AU has. Plus, I can't really justify buying another midi generator. I have a folder full of them that I have yet to really touch. But I could use a notepad that sticks notes to sessions... especially if it incidentally produced midi streams

I found some time to try it, and it works. It's nice too because you can have many patterns, each a page of notes. So, you could even automate displaying multiple pages as a song progressed by sending a selectable midi CC to it.

There's no formatting options other than line feeds, but it could still be very useful.

GUB

That’s awesome, thanks for checking. I just bought Textquencer so now I can document every session in great detail. Ha ha if I have the discipline…

@wim said:

@GUB said:
Yeah, I saw those criticisms floating around. So, once you create a note, you can't later edit it? And eventually you end up with potentially a super-long list of notes available in each session?

You can edit notes after you create them in Session Notes. But yes, you just end up with a long, flat list of notes. The app doesn't re-load the note that was displayed when you saved the host session. So to make any use of it you'd have to save the note with a title that matched the session name, and you'd have to scroll through the list to find the note you need to display every time. Even saving presets in the host doesn't reload the note.

Unfortunately, just not practical for anything that I can think of.

I was thinking Textquencer might address the save/recall issue that SN AU has. Plus, I can't really justify buying another midi generator. I have a folder full of them that I have yet to really touch. But I could use a notepad that sticks notes to sessions... especially if it incidentally produced midi streams

I found some time to try it, and it works. It's nice too because you can have many patterns, each a page of notes. So, you could even automate displaying multiple pages as a song progressed by sending a selectable midi CC to it.

There's no formatting options other than line feeds, but it could still be very useful.

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GUB

I'm really happy with the way it's working as a way to document things. I see that @cem_olcay considered adding formatting, but it looks like user response was one of underwhelment. I don't think it's necessary, but if a couple of formatting tools are still under consideration, add me as a late YES vote on that question. Cem, you'd have the first usable AUV3 session notes app... who could resist that? not even people with natural GAS immunity, that's who

wim

Better yet, @cem_olcay - how about a full notebook app?? You've got all the basics already done. If you added markdown and html formatting this would be super useful for all kinds of things such as displaying lyrics and having pages turn from a foot switch or from sequenced midi. Bonus points if it could display and scale PDF's and images.

cokomairena

cokomairena

GUB

I just want bolding, underlining, font/background color... basic formatting tools. I'm happy for that, and hoping it might not require that much work. I worry that big asks like PDF scaling might scuttle modest requests that could be implemented with minimal effort in favor of "this would make it perfect" features that sound like more effort than a dev might be wanting to invest. Also, I fear the slippery slope of feature bloat, but one man's bloat is another man's bueno, as they say. And after all, what do I know?

@wim said:
Better yet, @cem_olcay - how about a full notebook app?? You've got all the basics already done. If you added markdown and html formatting this would be super useful for all kinds of things such as displaying lyrics and having pages turn from a foot switch or from sequenced midi. Bonus points if it could display and scale PDF's and images.