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Annoyances you have with your programs? (pg. 4)
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| Synchronicity |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
There's only one real annoyance I have with Cubase, which is that when you click on the timeline at the top of the arrangement to jog the track, the jog hotspot is about 2 pixels away from the hotspot for setting track start/end markers. I can't count how many times I've accidentally lost the markers and had to re-select the proper range. The worst part is that it's not an undoable action.
Steinberg needs to brush up on some of the fundamentals of UI design: user precision with the mouse is low, therefore targets should always be big and spaced as far apart as possible. Even when I don't mess up the markers, it's a pain trying to make sure I hit a "sweet spot" that's not even clearly marked.
As for all the talk about samplers, I'm just fine using Battery. I'd rather use a good 3rd-party drum sampler than have a ty integrated one within the sequencer. Samplers are, in general, very mature products; we really don't need a half-baked substitute. |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
Heh, that was a good larf.
As I mentioned earlier - samplers! I don't draw kicks for 8 minutes, I import it once into Battery, click 4 times on the drum sheet, and loop it as many times as necessary. Drawing in every kick would be ridiculous, yes, but nobody actually does that (I think).
FL's step sequencer is really just a simplified sampler. |
Sorry, but I thought you normally kept on track in your opinions diginut. As much as I'm far from perfect - you're doing that really annoying thing that so many other people do.:tongue2
Your 'making up' and then arguing against it!!! For example how can you say you'd rather use a 3-rd party sampler than a 'half baked' 'ty integrated' one? It's like you're saying that I DO want a 'half baked' 'ty integrated' one!
So because it's not relevant to what I said in the first place, as far as I'm concerned you might as well have posted that you like tuna more than salmon.:happy2: |
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| DJ Shibby |
| quote: | Originally posted by Subtle
thats why i dropped learning FL.. its horrible not being able to cut or edit a block. |
You can...
SHIFT key, CONTROL key. FL does everything you need for cutting and pasting.
Unless you mean in the drum machine interface... in which case you shouldn't really need to cut and paste too much that it would become a problem. |
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| DJ Shibby |
| quote: | Originally posted by Crash
Fl studio
Not being able to sign stuff to the velocity in the piano roll. |
You can... |
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| DJ Shibby |
| quote: | Originally posted by Icone
What does bother me about FL is that it doesn't run on the two cores of my AMD X2... one of the very reasons I actually bought a dual core for.
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The beta version, 6.3, allows dual core. |
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| DJ Shibby |
| quote: | Originally posted by Centra Spike
Actually, thats a limitation of FL. If you were crazy you could draw in 8 mins worth of kicks, otherwise you would draw a few kicks and loop it, similar to how FL works. The main advantage over FL is that you can have as many different patterns as you like on the same track.
..at least in Logic but I'm pretty sure Cubase et al. work the same way. |
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you can have as many different patterns as you like on the same track in FL. |
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| DJ Shibby |
| quote: | Originally posted by david.michael
FL Studio (as of version 5):
Horrible dual-monitor support. I try to use it across two monitors by restoring to a window and dragging it across both screens, but for some reason, Piano Roll and other windows like to start almost all the way off the left side of the screen and I have a very hard time "grabbing" it.
Remember window positions, dammit!
A way to identify "runaway" automations. Perhaps there is a way to do this and I am unaware. But sometimes I will record some knob tweaks, etc. but I will have accidentally selected the actual track of the noise that I want to modify, instead of an automation track (Main Automation, for example). Then I can't find it to change it, delete it, fix it, or it ends prematurely, etc. Perhaps a way to FORCE automations into their own track?
Multiple undos would be nice. |
6.0 solves the undo problem. |
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| DJ Shibby |
| quote: | Originally posted by staticblue
FL Studio (and probably some other sequencers)
During playback, when i click on STOP and because the CPU usage is at 100% it keeps playing on and on. Sometimes the whole track plays 5 times before it actually stops. Other times I have to reboot :(
Usually when this happens, I'm so mad I don't produce until the next day :whip: |
In the help menu there is a menu item labeled "PANIC"... when your song goes out of control (because you need to upgrade your processor) just hit the hotkeys for it. |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by Synchronicity
Sorry, but I thought you normally kept on track in your opinions diginut. As much as I'm far from perfect - you're doing that really annoying thing that so many other people do.:tongue2
Your 'making up' and then arguing against it!!! For example how can you say you'd rather use a 3-rd party sampler than a 'half baked' 'ty integrated' one? It's like you're saying that I DO want a 'half baked' 'ty integrated' one!
So because it's not relevant to what I said in the first place, as far as I'm concerned you might as well have posted that you like tuna more than salmon.:happy2: |
Can't say I'm seeing the inconsistency in the posts you quoted or where I got "off track". In one post I said I'd rather use Battery than a simplified built-in sequencer like the step sequencer in FL, and in another post I said... that I do just fine using Battery. Did you misread one of those posts? What exactly was not on track?
My point was - and still is - simply that I see no benefit to having a simplified built-in sampler in Cubase. Since you already said "to get rid of the need for Battery" I have to assume that you're fairly proficient with Battery, and so you should know that it offers far more versatility than an FL-esque sampler while requiring little or no extra effort. Not that Battery is the only option; there are plenty of other good samplers out there, I'm just stating the one I'm most familiar with.
I'm sorry if you didn't like the terminology that I used, but the fact of the matter is that virtually every sampler I've seen included with or integrated into a sequencer has been painfully inadequate, with the possible exception of EXS24 which isn't technically part of Logic. And personally, I would really like to see the Steinberg team spend a lot more time fixing bugs and design flaws than making cute new plugins that offer precious little over well-established 3rd-party software.
Even if they did include what you seem to want, it would just be a VST plugin anyway, like all the other pieces they include. How then would it "get rid of the need" for Battery, as opposed to merely providing a less-established and less-tested alternative, of which there are already several? |
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| david.michael |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Shibby
6.0 solves the undo problem. |
Ah, still running 5.0, wasn't aware... thanks!
+1 to everything else you said though. |
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| Centra Spike |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Shibby
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you can have as many different patterns as you like on the same track in FL. |
FL has changed a lot since I last used it then (version 4). I thought the playlist was still the same. |
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| david.michael |
| quote: | Originally posted by Centra Spike
FL has changed a lot since I last used it then (version 4). I thought the playlist was still the same. |
Maybe I'm missing what you're saying, but this was also possible in 4.0.... |
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| Centra Spike |
| Well I just checked in case theres something badly wrong with my memory, but nope... In fact it says quite clearly in the manual "each track represents one pattern". |
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