[Ardour-Dev] Automation control point problem in A3

[Thomas Vecchione]

I think that Mixbus's behavior could be looked at here, where you can click
and drag L/R to create a range, then click and drag up/down so that you
create a total of four points, one just outside the range on either side at
the original values, and one just inside at the new values.  When I want to
maintain the original values on either side of an edit, it is exceedingly
rare I want just a single point, but instead want to raise or lower a
section, so I would find this preferable.

On the other hand, if I am drawing in automation manually, I am more like
John in that I wouldn't want points in on either side, I find if I am
single clicking to create a point, this is most often what I am doing.  A
modifier may or may not be appropriate here I suppose to get this action,
it is certainly the lesser of the actions I usually take as I often draw in
automation by writing a fader, but not always.

      Seablade


On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 6:48 AM, Jörn Nettingsmeier <
nettings at stackingdwarves.net> wrote:

> On 02/15/2014 11:21 AM, John Rigg wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 09:46:25AM +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 09:12:27AM +0000, John Rigg wrote:
>>>
>>>  Manually deleting the second point every time
>>>> is too much of a slowdown in work flow.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Moving it to some convenient spot will be faster. But yes, being
>>> able to create just a single point would be a good thing.
>>>
>>
>> I often need to move the extra point more than a short distance.
>> I much prefer Ardour 2's behaviour here. As only one other user apart
>> from me has mentioned this issue on Mantis, I guess I'm in a very small
>> minority (hence my interest in modifying my own copy of 3.0).
>>
>
> i would like to see both. maybe a modifier-click could be used to create
> two points, and the default is one point? and i agree with fons that some
> separation between the points would help a lot, but then the question is:
> what zoom level do you assume? something like "1/50 of the editor canvas
> width" would be cool, but i guess that'd be hairy to implement... perhaps
> make a fixed offset configurable and put the burden on the user?
>
>
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