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kmatheussen / radium

A graphical music editor. A next generation tracker.
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Save/load block/track #462

Open kmatheussen opened 8 years ago

kmatheussen commented 7 years ago

Is it important that the saved blocks/tracks include instruments?

Lykdraft commented 7 years ago

Good question. I would think no, not that important. Because the main thing is that it is easy to save/load note patterns and melody lines for later use in a quick fashion.

Of course it would be of advantage if you have a pattern that is bound to a specific instrument/sample so that you can load it directly complete, but we have a preset system now for instruments and whole groups of modules so it is quite easy to work around that "limitation" by just saving all good sounds/module networks anyways.

Saving/loading note data is not that easy to workaround. Especially not if you want to test multiple things from multiple templates/songs.

Lykdraft commented 7 years ago

Another thing would be how to deal with automation data. I think that it is only possible to include automation data in save/load track/block when the instrument is included? (Or there could be an option to "reassign fx text automation to xyz?)

But again, note data and multi-track note data (patterns) save/load is in my mind much more important.

kmatheussen commented 7 years ago

Hmm. Both instruments and imported automation is handled when pasting blocks, even when pasting a block or track copied from an earlier session. I remember vaguely that it was tricky to make work, but hopefully it should be possible to reuse this functionality to save/load blocks and tracks.

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Lykdraft commented 7 years ago

If it would be possible that would just be icing on the cake.

Maybe you just need a format to save the copied block/track to disk like you did with the .rec / .mrec? (i.e. a menu entry: load/save clipboard data from/to disk maybe?)

kmatheussen commented 7 years ago

I've implemented loading and saving of blocks and tracks now, but when loading blocks and tracks, all instruments and automation is stripped of. So it's a first step.