Hi, I like to use F10 a fair bit to loop highlighted sections of a song. I found what appears to be a weakness in the process that I suspect needs some programming to fix. If I am correct that it needs to be programmed the programming is about as easy as programming can get yet the improvement alone is probably enough to get me to upgrade because it will get me using the feature a lot more often :-)

The problem is the fact that the difference between the highlighted chord view cells and the cell that is playing right now within the loop is so slight that it becomes very difficult to know which cell is the current cell playing and this is important to know at a glance if one gets lost or if one just wants to tend to something else then get back to working with the loop. I would recommend simply changing the current cell playing background colour to (light yellow against black letters) to contrast with the (black background with white letters) of the highlighted section. You might want to make this the default option with the option to change the background colour to other light colors such as light blue or light green that contrast well with the black letters.

I thought there was a work around but unfortunately not:
Okay so I discovered that once the loop is playing and while it continues to play I could highlight a cell outside the loop and I could easily see the current cell playing within the loop. However this creates two problems and is a very poor work around. 1/ there is no way to pause the loop such that I can restart it with F10 only (the loop is lost and F10 restarts the song from the beginning). I tried both space bar and ESC and they both stop the loop but again pressing F10 restarts from the beginning of the song (not good). 2/ Highlighting outside the loop so one can see the current bar playing can cause one to forget where they set the loop. So it is better to keep the loop area highlighted as it currently is now and have the current bar playing be changed as I describe above.

That's it, I would give this a high priority if I was in PG-Music's shoes simply because it is so easy to change yet could get someone to upgrade (in other words the payback period could be within a day if people are notified of this fix). Notifying specific people of fixes they have requested is a good idea but a lot harder :-) I have requested a few things and have no idea if they are in (I get so busy).

Thanks,
John

Last edited by bowlesj; 09/26/20 04:56 AM.
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