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where is the Files ???

when i click in the files icon don't see the Files window... i tried to move it to another workspace just to test and i never more see it again.. is any way i can edit to put the "coordinates" of the window ? :S loll i guess i did the impossible!! :p
but could be a nice think!!! for example a sequencer in one workspace and the mixer or other thinks in other workspace ? it is possible? what you think about the possibility to move that windows between different workspaces?

i am using ubuntu hardy 8.04 and its little other problem..for example when i click in "connections" icon i don't see the top bar (to click and move that window) until i hide my ubuntu top panel !! the main window is right... appears down the panel but the other don't..

i want to suggest some thinks to the new version... maybe is good or not but here they are:

- in the "Files window" why don't put a new option in low (where midi and files is) like a Favorite Samples folder .. when we put tha samples on the tracks they automatically goes to Files section..

- in the piano.. when we are in the "write mode" when we click with the right button it can delete the note...
- in the piano.. in the write mode.. he can record the last size of the note and when we put it we don't need to resize it anymore and when it are selected we can move it to left right....

this 2 options is like in FL Studio and makes for me the best piano roll of all daws ... a way too much fast to work

i don't put vst running yet i'm reading stuff about that.. but i tested my Novation x-station synthesizer, and it works fine with qtractor until now!!

i don't know coding in c++ just "know" a little basic concepts of C.. but the qtractor is developed in C++ only? if i wish to start helping coding , for where i could start ? and what i need?

sorry for the poor English but hope you understand... there's no way to talk in Portuguese Rui ?

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- when i click in the files icon don't see the Files window... i tried to move it to another workspace just to test and i never more see it again..

It seems your window manager is making some strange things to the files widget or any other that gets moved to another workspace (desktop?). Which desktop environment is that? I'll assume gnome as its the ubuntu default. I must say that I'm no fan of gnome, quite the contrary :) but in any case there should be a way to fix this. As I have no (personal) way to reproduce the problem, would you please trye whether switching the View/Options.../Display/Keep tool windows always on top option makes it any difference?

[UPDATE:] If all else fails, try editing the configuration file (~/.config/rncbc.org/Qtractor.conf) while you are NOT running qtractor and delete the line that starts with DockWindows... and rerun.

- in the "Files window" why don't put a new option in low (where midi and files is) like a Favorite Samples folder ..

Well, the Files widget serves as a way to organize your audio sample and MIDI sequence files at your own discretion. I know is not the same as a "Favorites" folder, but you can have file groups as folders for you to organize your files. Think of it as the "Files" window is already your session "Favorites" altogether.

- in the piano.. when we are in the "write mode" when we click with the right button it can delete the note...

It is not the first time I argue about the usefulness of this eraser mode or whatever, which I seem to think as yet another annoyance. Right-clicking is most seen to bring a context-menu up for options. Ok, it might be just me, personally again, but let's remember that the official way to delete events is through regular and generic multi/single-selection and pressing the Delete key :).

- in the piano.. in the write mode.. he can record the last size of the note and when we put it we don't need to resize it anymore and when it are selected we can move it to left right....

I'm afraid I find that annoying myself, on my own workflow, when doing some clicky-de-click editing. In fact the code to make that was commented out long ago. I still prefer the current way of having the notes sized from the current snap/beat setting. However, there's always a chance we can agree upon some user configuration option ;)

but the qtractor is developed in C++ only? if i wish to start helping coding , for where i could start ? and what i need?

Yes, it's all old-school C++, that meaning it's more to C-style than super-duper modern high-energy sweetned C++. I can't really tell where to start, but I would suggest you could browse into Jasmin Blanchette's book "C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4", for instance and see if your hair raises that little bit ;) That and more hair raising reading here

Cheers

Just to give you more feedback...

in the piano.. when we are in the "write mode" when we click with the right button it can delete the note...
Oh .. please don't do that Rui. As you already mentioned, the right click should open a menu ... to press DEL is fully enough I think.

i just say in WRITE MODE ... when it was in edit mode .. it can open the menu... its just an opinion .. for example we should start for the principle when we got the "pencil" we wand add/remove notes .. but .. its an opinion e love that.. but if you don't .. ok !! i accept.. but i already tested the
ableton piano roll, cubase piano roll etc.. and i prefer the FL piano roll.. the MUST of FL is the piano roll.. sorry for that.. and if you don't like you don't change sure.. !! i'm not a professional so my opinion don't have so much importance..

i'm having some problems finding some instruments LADSPA.. can anyone give me some help? the names? Is any way to Qtractor comes with one's of the best LADSPA plug ins in the package ? maybe its a little lamme question... but it helps a lot who is start making music, and starting in linux.. cause i want to make music... not spend a lot of time trying to put thinks working.. hope you understand my point of view.

i'm going install now the new version to test it in my new ubuntu 9.04...
best regards !! and happy birthday :p
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You can only have audio fx LADSPA plugins (audio in, audio out). Instrument plugins (MIDI in, audio out) are only available under the DSSI and VST specifications (specifically the later are known as VSTi).

Cheers

just for people who dont know ... there is a site http://www.kvraudio.com where we can make a search for fx/plug ins/applications available for linux... i knew the site.. but din't knew the option ... if we chose the option "Advanced Search" there is a option to make a search by Operative System.. i try to find.. and doesn't really exist manny thinks... except one very good synth!! "discovery" but not free - Price (MSRP) $99 / €75..
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/421.html :(
i'm keep asking if someone knows some good free native plugs ins for linux if u can give the link i appreciate.. cause i only find thinks very "primitive"..
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Did you already stumble over the CALF dssi plugins: http://calf.sourceforge.net ?

noo!!! thank you very much!!!! :) heheh probably use all.. gonna check it better!! but they look good :) thank you! []

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