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I think I'll put in a help system, similar to Trinity's, for these kinds of things that are undoubtedly easy to miss!
No I mean, when the app calculates the BPM from the selection's length, it should round the BPM to maybe 0.5 or 1 BPM. Otherwise, you'd have to make an extremely precise selection, which would be very tedious. Most music will have a BPM that is spot-on a whole number, or maybe 130.5 BPM. But never 125.824239842. Or an I misunderstanding?
OK. More meaningful ruler markings / snapping when zoomed in further in general is something I'll explore.
OK.
Alright. It might have crashed while in the background due to other reasons then. In any case, proper session restore is of course needed and will be added!
Oh 😂
It might be cos I’m on iPhone and haven’t tried on iPad yet. I haven’t used twisted wave for ages tbf, but distinctly remember spending ages zooming right in and painstakingly selecting the perfect in out points then losing it all with one miss tap.
It’s like the piano roll in xequence. So much easier using bigger handles to move the notes around rather than zooming in and out trying to tap on the notes and drag them, without accidentally getting the ‘make smaller’ hit point.
Yes, that margin is integral to how the UI is designed
I might even make this margin configurable. I wanted to avoid a "Preferences" menu for now, but I'm sure it'll be needed at some point.
Cheers!
Yes, I'm generally fond of the "Handles" concept as you can see. But I get others' viewpoints as well. I might offer both in the future and make it configurable. But for now, this is already there and will probably stick to it for the first release.
If there's any significant sales from the app (i.e. more than EUR 30 per month), I will keep updating it
iOS 15.8.1 Happy to test it for ya
Right, thanks, I do expect problems but it'll be good to confirm. Will try to push out the update today or tomorrow at the latest
Here's something for the brainstorming list. I think it would be a nice distinguishing feature that I don't think other editors have.
I'd love to see a "wrap edit". By that I mean a way to move the audio within a selection but have it wrap around, preserving the length of the audio but wrapping the end to the beginning as you move it right and the beginning to the end as you move it left.
Think of a loop where your timing was early starting it, so that the initial transient is at the end and the start is late. Move the audio to the right until the starting transient wraps around to the beginning and is in the correct position. That kind of thing.
Great name btw!
Just an inspiration? Or is there an acronym in there somewhere?
My guess is you have a cat that loves to try to walk on your keyboard when you're working.
Thanks for sharing and being involved again @SevenSystems
Sampling is the vast majority of my workflow so I’ll 100% be putting this through its paces. I’m stoked, this looks like it has potential to be my go-to for this kind of thing.
Haha, exactly what @Samu requested too. I think I need to bump this on the roadmap! 🛣
Well, I never "properly" had a cat, but random cats always appear where I live or even just have my regular walks, and I'm quite fond of them indeed 😊 I actually had a "Meow" startup sound in mind (sampled from one of not-my cats!), but maybe that would be slightly annoying. But I do have something small along those lines for the next beta update...
No acronym. Just Meow! 'nuff said. 🍻
Sounds good! I was actually working on the internal "Record" feature today, I hope to be able to squeeze it in until tomorrow.
I think you are misunderstanding. I am talking about the user having made a precise perfectly looping selection. Then telling Meow that the selection is 8 beats long. If you round to 1/2 bpm or 1 bpm, that would be a problem.
It's very catchy. 👍🏼
I'll be hunting for the Easter egg that unlocks the Hello Kitty inspired theme.
OK, I think I get it now. I thought you meant a quick way to set the BPM by setting a quick selection that roughly represents eg. 1 bar and then having the app calculate the roundabout BPM from that, instead of the user slowly adjusting the BPM slider until the grid lines match up with the waveform.
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I mean the user carefully adjusts the selection by dragging the start and stop points till the loop is perfect then telling meow: “calculate the bpm from the selection “. The user would need a way to tell more how many beats long the selection is.
Got it! Thanks!
Don't ever let it in the house. 😂
😄 awesome. Too late though!
I'm gonna go on record as saying I prefer the tap on the bracket thing for moving the selection over tapping directly on the waveform. I think you'll get lots of requests for tapping on the waveform directly, but IMO that method sucks compared to your method.
So ... just confirming ... you can't please everyone.
👍 yes, I do get both viewpoints. That's why I'll have to add options shmoptions...
By the way. Is anyone using Meow with a keyboard and/or mouse? The app has also been designed with desktop in mind, so I'd be happy to hear opinions.
With a fade out and/or fade in set, tapping outside the wave-form selection clears the fades.
Will there be any way (or did I just miss it?) to save a project in-process without exporting to a wav file? Often I'm interrupted or want to return to something I was working on earlier.
I think the file open and save dialogs should default to the last folder used.
Yes, that's intentional -- the fades are currently cleared on all "major" selection operations:
It's a bit of a tough one. When does the user "intend" to ditch the old fades? I suspect in all of the above scenarios (tapping outside the selection invokes "Select None"). I could of course always leave the fades intact and have the user always clear them manually by dragging, but to me, setting fades is more of a "temporary" thing, like before exporting the selection, or for quickly doing a fade and then hitting "Process -> Apply Fades", so I don't think it would be good if they stayed there all the time, especially not when you switch into a different "mindset", which is indicated by a major selection change.
That is the reasoning behind this behaviour.
There is a concept of "Project" in the app including project-related settings etc., but currently there is no way to load or save projects. I might add this at some point, and what definitely will be added for the first release is automatic session restore when the app was killed in the background by iOS.
I've done a fair run-through on the iPad. I'm super impressed so far! It's amazingly responsive and fluid. A real pleasure to use. Enough so that I can pretty much forgive the "no plugin" ethos. 😎
Next up - testing with keyboard, then on my current iPhone and my retired iPhone 7. I'll fire up the older iPad too.