posted 10 June 2002 07:01            

If you have a sequencer and synth or sampler attached, Or the timeline of a harddisc recorder ,when you hit stop you would expect the output to become totally muted.

If however you had the timeline of the graphical representation of an automated mixing desk (which included FX units), then when you hit stop you would expect the channels to remain open as you would any FX units included. Also if any FX units had LFOs in them, you would expect the LFOs to continue to oscillate.

The Kyma timeline deals with both of the above types at the same time which I believe makes it unique, and as such there is not yet a standardised set of rules for how it should work. One of my suggestions was that pause and stop had two different types of operation where pause would freeze the timeline and stop would mute it. This would mean that you couldn’t use the space bar to toggle between play and (PauseStop). In Pro tools and cubase etc , there is no real difference between Pause and Stop. Another way would be that the user marks each time bar as an "Act Like Midi Sequ" or "Act Like Auto Mixer". But there are plenty of reasons why this would be not so desirable aswell.

I could go on for pages and pages of how one little change has so many other implications and us users would have to learn them all aswell.

So what I’m asking is do you think that the timeline should mute when you stop/pause or do you have another idea ?

Would Apple"K" or the PC equivalent do as good a job?

Do other users think otherwise ?

posted 10 June 2002 13:12            

to answer pete: i haven´t yet slaved kyma timeline to my sequencer. i use program changes to jump around in the timeline.
this brings another question:
i noticed that if i jump from one synth sound to another it happens that the program change triggers a note, which is quite undesireable.
is it possible that this occurs because the midi note was not shut off when the prg.chng is sended?
any ideas to avoid this?

thanks
michael