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From: "Edgar Rothermich" <edgarrothermich@mac.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 at 12:48:40 AM
Subject: [LUG] Klopfgeist made simple
Message #216844
Is it me, or do you think that the implementation of such a simple feature as a Metronome is unnecessary confusing in Logic? I posted the following notes on Apple's Feedback page regarding my suggestions to simplify the Metronome feature in Logic. If you agree with me, please send your own note to Apple or copy/paste my suggestions below, to put a little bit more weight behind it. I know this might not be high on the priority list for many, but it is part of the clean up and simplification process Logic desperately needs on its way to become the "perfect app" that we all want it to be. You can check out my "Photoshop'ed" version of the Metronome Settings page from the following link: http://homepage.mac.com/edgarrothermich/.Public/Screenshots/MetronomeProposa l.jpg Here are my thoughts: First of all, get rid of the "MIDI Metronome Click" Object in the Environment. The current implementation of the Object and its Object Parameters are overlapping with the Metronome Settings in the Song Settings page in a very inconsinsten way. The option to have or have not the Click Object is only confusing. The concept of a Metronome click is (and should be) very simple: 1) The Sequencer (Transport Panel) provides a button to turn on/off the Metronome click 2) The Metronome Setting page provides controls to determine where the click is send to and the way it "clicks" The Layout of the Settings page should provide a clear picture about what controls are affecting what: 1) The Metronome can be send to three destinations: 1a) External MIDI: This sends the click to a external MIDI module connected to the MIDI Interface 1b) Audio Instrument 128 (Klopfgeist): This is where the current system gets confusing. Klopfgeist is just the Audio Instrument "Klopfgeist" loaded into the last Audio Instrument channel 128. You can, and a lot of users do, load an EXS Instrument with their own click sounds. So just lets call this destination what it is "Audio Instrument 128". Klopfgeist can still be loaded as a default. 1c) System Audio: I would label this destination not "Built-in speaker", because the click is sent actually to the System Audio and follows the setting of the "System Preferences > Sound > Output" 2) The settings for each click destination are laid out in 3 columns with similar controls positioned on the same row to make it really clear what settings affect what destination. I'm not sure if you can change system preferences from inside an application, so I listed the output destination of the System Audio as a Read-only setting. 3) The current slider for the "Tonality" affects only the Klopfgeist plug-in on channel 128. If you use any other plug-in, then the slider has no affect.
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