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lucky · Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 2:57 pm Post subject: Hit Colors & Editing Rhythm

Today I discovered that trying to set a certain velocity for a note within a rhythm is actually quite hard in Jamstix 1.x, e.g. setting a softer or loader hit for a note. Though it is easy to drag the velocity with your mouse, it is actually quite hard to see what level the velocity is of the note you are editing: the color gradient goes from dark green to light green. Particular if you want to set a several notes with more a less similar velocity.

My eyes are quite good, but it is still hard to guess what a particular velocity is. And some people's eyes are less color sensitive. Are there any plans to improve this in Jamstix 2? Did I see that there will be a full midi editing window?

An intermediate solution could be to increase the color gradient: for instance going from dark blue to light red. At least you know that when it switches from blue to red you know that you are half way.

EDIT: Sorry, wrong thread, should be under Jamstix 2...

Lucky

Ralph [RZ] · Site Admin Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 13332

When you drag the mouse to adjust velocity, look at the status bar of Jamstix at the bottom. It will show the numeric velocity.
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lucky · Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 6:04 pm Post subject:

Ah, silly me, sometimes I do forget the status bar showing very useful info. Sorry about that.