Rayzoon Technologies LLC

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I've made quite a few requests in my short stay here, and there's several more I haven't posted about yet, so I thought I'd sum them up here. You've already solved a ton of things I needed already though, amazing work! Maybe there could be a sticky thread listing all widely requested features with a note as to whether they're possible, impossible, or would have to wait until JS3? Anyway:

-Triplets. Maybe you could do this similarly to how Acoustica Beatcraft handles triplets in its pattern editor (I used this program a long time ago, before I moved up to EZD):



Then along with the option for single, double, and bounce hits in the bar editor, add 'triplet' option to get 32nd note triplets.

-Flams. In the bar editor where you have the option for single, double, and bounce hits, there should also be flam hits.

-Allow modifying length and placement of snare rolls, snare/tom builds, and crash crescendos, so rather than only being able to do a full bar for each you could do a 2-beat crash crescendo starting on beat 2. A couple different styles of snare roll would be nice too.

-It would be nice if you could specify right and left leg for each kick hit in the Classic Kick & Snare grid. You could probably have just one button that would switch between, with right as the default. Having a 'double' button there would be useful as well.

[Ralph [RZ]]

All duly noted. The 'Flam' hit style doesn't work though because a flam uses two limbs.
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Rayzoon Technologies LLC
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Doesn't the 'double' hit use two limbs as well? For instance, if you have a bar that's all 16ths on kick on one limb, the velocity will be pretty low on a lot of those hits, as with a real drummer. However if you have a bar full of 'double' kick hits, the velocity is comparatively constant, as it would be with a drummer playing constant 32nds on double kick. I think this works even if all these double kick hits are on one limb, though I'd have to check; so it seems like the double hits are using two limbs.

[Ralph [RZ]]

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Oh, I've gotta add another one: when you add 'Classic Kick & Snare controls', have the option to have a separate grid for each core bar.

[Marcus2323]

My request would be to widen the GUI and make visible a second bar for editing the notes. This would allow easy editing of 2 bar grooves.

I'm sure I'm dreaming to get this one!
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[Ralph [RZ]]

[Marcus2323]

Oh, now you are really teasing us...."Jamstix 3" ?!?!?

This is still the best program by far. And of course the support is second to none.


Well done Ralph!
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[Xeiver]

I also would like to see a better/bigger pattern editor in JS3. Hate those supersmall symbols!
A way to display triplets like the one in Beatcraft would really be nice!

[Marcus2323]

Maybe an "edit" button that brings up a bigger screen much like the Mixer and Options screens?

That would work!
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Marcus2323
Reaper
Jamstix 3
Intel Quad Core
Win 8.1 64 bit
8GB Ram
EMU PCI 0404

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Adding a whole bunch more (some would have to wait for 3, I'm sure)-

-In the accents tab, a grid similar to the 'Classic' controls, which would control where accents are placed.

-With accents, allow differentiation between crashes, chinas, and splashes. Heavy cymbals seems to do both crashes and chinas, low cymbals chinas and splashes. Sometimes you just want one type of cymbal.

-Since you've said you couldn't have a flam option in the bar editor, how about adding those as an accent? Another accent I'd like to see is simply cymbal on the first beat of each bar; I don't want to have to

-Also, in the power hand and redirection controls, it would be nice to differentiate between every cymbal you have loaded; I don't see any way to do a china groove on just one china, say, or a crash groove on just crash 3 or crash 4. It could be a headache to scroll through all those options with the current selector, though; perhaps change it to a branching drop-down menu (IMO this would make sense for all of those little selectors)?

-For JS 3 I envision, ideally, 'Classic kick/snare' controls greatly expanded. The major things I'd like to see changed in their functionality are: having a separate grid for each core bar, that you could scroll between; and having each button be subdividable into two smaller buttons for 32nds, or into 3 for 32nd triplets, or somehow combined with neighboring buttons and then split back up to create 8th and 16th triplets. I could make some concept images to illustrate what I'm talking about. The classic controls grid is an extremely powerful workflow simplifier, and I'd love to see it expanded so one could basically use it solely, between these ideas and what I mentioned earlier about selecting between right and left for each hit in the grid.

[Ralph [RZ]]

All duly noted. Thanks!
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Ralph Zeuner
Rayzoon Technologies LLC
http://www.rayzoon.com

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One more request- a 'lock limb' option in the bar editor, to lock an entire limb for the current bar or part. If I edit a part in the bar editor and then decide I want, say, a different degree of hihat openness, it will recompose the whole part. Sure, I can set 'manually created events' and so won't remove hits I've added or moved, but it will still recompose hits I've deleted. This way when I want to change the values for one limb in the groove tab, I can prevent it from recomposing the others.

[Ralph [RZ]]

"Lock Limb" is on the list for future updates.
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