Originally Posted By: Rustyspoon#
JJJ,
This:
"3) right-click those bars and select regenerate for the track I want to change which changes ONLY THE SELECTED BARS ON THE SELECTED TRACK"

Having hard time imagining this. I get how you would select a "bar(s)" but how would you select a specific track to regenerate? I assume you click the actual single track tab after you make your bar selection?

I guess, your request by default assumes all tracks will remain the same (Frozen!) after first generation, only allowing for selective regeneration.

Another thought why "partial bar freeze" might work better. Imagine a song with 3 choruses / 3 verses. If you want to regenerate all 3 choruses at once, you simply would select stuff you want to change,freezing the rest. A bar selection in MULTIPLE places would be needed. A tool that was available in many graphics programs for many years "Inverse Selection" also might be a very useful.

*And with partial freeze, you can have the option to "unfreeze" all to have the effect of randomness for the whole track, as we have now.

*There also should be an option to regenerate all tracks within selected bars.

To me and I am sure to many average users, just logic is not enough. It has to be done nicely, with design in mind, not just a function.
Ease of use! The "feature" that was currently implemented, "multiriffs for BIAB"., Idea is good, implementation, well...to put it gently, desires maturity. What I am trying to say, just to "have the feature" is not enough, it has to be thought out well. To me, this (bar by bar or partial freeze) is a HUGE feature, and if it ever gets implemented, I want it implemented the right way.

My goal is to try and define the simplest possible pseudo-code outline that just cannot be misinterpreted! smile I thought previous discussions we have had on this forum were pretty clear as to what was desirable for bar-by-bar regeneration so, frankly, I was surprised and disappointed with the complicated "solution" they came up with.

To clarify, I am talking about a new feature for Regen that does not change ANYTHING with the current Generate & Play feature. In fact, it does not change ANYTHING else in the program to ensure no side effects we don't want or need!

You select your bars and then right-click and the popup has the following choices,
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CLICK TRACK BELOW TO REGENERATE SELECTED BARS
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0 Bass
0 Piano
0 Drums
0 Guitar
0 Strings
0 Melody
0 Soloist
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You select one and BAM it regenerates ONLY the selected bars on ONLY the selected track. No button to click after selecting. Just select bars and then select track and BAM...it regenerates ONLY what you chose and returns you to the program. Now you are sitting right where you were before with NOTHING changed except what you chose to change. You can listen to the changed section and if you like it freeze that track and save your file. If you don't like it select the bars and repeat.

To me this seems so simple from a user's perspective and not difficult to program.

Last edited by JohnJohnJohn; 01/03/20 08:10 AM.