Rayzoon Technologies LLC

[Guitarfish]

I had a good JS2 workout at the weekend and got some good results but still find there are a few things in the interface that strike me as slightly disconnected or counter-intuitive. None of these affect the functionality as such (which is fantastic and constantly improving ), and I'm sure with time I'll get used to them. That said, I think these are examples of small things things that reduce 'usability' and add to the learning curve for new users.

1. On the song sheet, there are check-boxes for automatic fills in the order R->T. In the fill generator the 'length' controls for the two fill types are in the order T->R (the R->T seems more intuitive to me).

2. Fill Generator: there is a 'Simple' control to make fills simpler as it is 'turned up'. This just feels 'wrong' - my brain wants it be called Complex and work the other way round i.e. 'low' values = simple, 'high' values = complex (but other brains may differ...)

3. Recompose: effectively has 2 buttons, the 'bar' toggle and the actual 'recompose' button. This is probably down to my incompetence, but I have accidently recomposed a part several times when I meant to recompose a bar because I forgot to check the 'bar' toggle. An alternative might be to have seperate 'recompose part' and 'recompose bar' buttons - still only 2, but only ever takes 1 click and more 'idiot-proof'? (The 'part / bar' toggle also seems to have been a cause of confusion to a number of new posters on this forum...)

4. Timeline: when I bin or recompose a bar, it moves that bar to first position in the timeline, when 9 times out of 10 I don't want it to - I'd rather the timeline stayed where it was.

5. Select Drummer: I can use up / down keyboard arrows to move through the list but the description doesn't follow the highlighted drummer unless I select them with the the mouse.

6. Select Kit: The 'tree-view' of kits has mappings for many popular sub-hosted VSTs. It's obviously a great feature for those that use them, but I don't have any of them (and am unlikely to buy any soon, given the quality of the recent drumpacks ) so to me it's just 'visual noise' Could there be a 'filter' of some kind to hide them, or even put them all into a single 'sub-hosts' branch of the tree so they can be collapsed by those that aren't interested?

As I said, none of this actually changes what you can do, but if any of these could be built in to future updates they would help me to do it more easily...

[dysfunction]

[Ralph [RZ]]

All duly noted. #4 is already fixed in current 2.2.1 final release.
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Ralph Zeuner
Rayzoon Technologies LLC
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[drybar]

For #6, I created a subfolder in ...VstPlugins\jamstix2\data\kits called 'Not Installed' and moved the kits I'll never own or never use there.

I still have them if I ever need them and it sure makes the list smaller.

[drybar]

For #6, I created a subfolder in ...VstPlugins\jamstix2\data\kits called 'Not Installed' and moved the kits I'll never own or never use there.

I still have them if I ever need them and it sure makes the list smaller.