TamTam:Development Tasks

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TODO

General/sounds

• Mike recording to be re-implemented!
• Make a TamTam Edit Video
• Make a portable/ exchangeable system for TamTam files, perhaps, like James suggested, built on a revised idea of the csound deamon.
• Revise instrument loops
• Add more sounds
• New sound category: Loops to be streched with tempo!
• Move all PNG's to SVG's
• Sugar integration

TamTam Player Screen

• Implement TamTamPlayer!!!
• a new activity?

miniTamTam

• Make the beat generate "fills" or variations for one bar every 16 betas or so and then get back to its original.
• mike recording to reimplement. Maybe this ought to be feasible in Edit and synthLab as well.

TamTam Edit

• LOAD & SAVE !!!
• Keyboard recording!
• RollOver state for all slider knobs. (better wait for this as we might switch to SVG, Nat)
• mic and synthLab icons are too small for the trackView. We see an half of another .png

• Algo issues
  • Algo should offer ways to use algorythmically chosen "orchestras"

• Toolbar Issues
  • Property popup window needs completion.
  • WE HAVE TO EXPLAIN HOW PAGE SELECTION (ctrl) WORKS!
    • Perhaps add the possibility to add to selection using right mouse button.
  • Are the arrow buttons in noteedit really useful if we have the arrow keys mapped?
  • Add button should be placed next to the erase button in page edit mode.
  • Add a "paint" tool that would paint notes spaced according to the quantize grid value. set grid value...
  • In noteEdit mode, make steps for volume change much larger (perhaps 10 steps total )

• PageView issues
  • Property popup window needs completion.
  • Beats-per-page needs implementation (perhaps in page properties as opposed to a button?)
  • spacebar starts/stops
  • There should be a line in the trackview for each 16th note.
  • The drum track horizontal grid needs to be divided by 12 steps instead of 24.
  • Keyboard arrows shoudl be mapped to pitch and amp when in note slection mode, up-down on track change and left-right on page change when in tack or page edit mode
  • Shift-keyboard up-down arrows should be mapped to amplitude and shift-left-right should be mapped to duration.

SynthLab

• Saving sounds
• Saving Patches

Documentation and training

• HTML documentation
• Tutorials

Bugs

General/sounds

• Serious performance degradation when not running as root.
• Adjust keyboard latency in ALSA (-b smaller)
• TamTam icon, once launched, does not appear on the donut nor in the top frame...
• Instrument volume normalization (drums in particular)
• Click at the end of sounds
• Add vibrato/tremolo to sustain sounds?

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TamTam Edit

• The "first note" bug. Randomly the first note on a page goes silent. it is there and responds to mouse interaction but is silent when playing. This happens after some editing operaitons of copy/generate/move etc. it can happen with a single page or multiple pages. It is always the first note on a track but that note doesn;t have to be directly on the downbeat of the first beat. It can be on just one or more track.
• The generation window as a popup is a problem since it closes on the first mouseup event, meaning any action on the 2D sliders causes the window to close. AM
• Sometimes volume sliders stop working...
• Track instruments are only changed when you regenerate.
• Soloing a track requires the user to press stop and play again to hear the track in solo
• recording fails and leaves an unremovable silent instrument that looks like a baby (OS build 303 on B2)

• Toolbar Issues
  • When first opening TamTam edit, the icons overlap (Adrian)
  • Using the toolbar arrows to go back to a different mode should be reflected in the selection. ie: if the toolbar shows page deiting mode, the selection should be deselected (whether tracks or notes) -- actually Adrian succefully argued against this idea
  • Looping parameter button. This should probably be dropped as it brings confusion. Looping will simply be of the page(s) selected.
  • The button icons in noteedit mode look terrible

• PageView issues
  • When a note(s) is/are selected, deselect them when clicking anywhere else but on the selected note(s)
  • When adjusting note pitches in trackview, the notes shoudl sound for the full duration.
• Make tempo from 30bpm to 180bpm. 240 is not useful.
• I generated with the rock drum kit and I can hear the "ooooh" of the electronic kit, can't repro though.
• mic and synthLab icons are too small for the trackView. We see an half of another .png
• generate doesn't handle several orchestras, it took the first one for all the tune

SynthLab

• Sources need to be placed leftmost in the object bank. Its not important for now and we need to talk about that! - Oli
• Make the 6 synthLab sound slots beside the length slider
• Push maximum length of sound slots to 10 seconds
• Icons for the 6 record Buttons
• starting a connection on an input is not suposed to be allowed