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[sat159p1]

Originally Posted by Jperkinski

Having a few additional tracks is also handy when doing some unexpected edits in the sequencing stage.

I don't know that DSP would need 16 tracks, but having 4 would make for some nice breathing room.

It would be also handy when working with stems.

[sdaino]

Originally Posted by sat159p1

One more - if you load a file and play it and then you want to close it (when playing) clicking red button, file closes but audio is still playing! and you cant stop it. The file isnt available in Window menu anymore. So you must quit whole app to kill the playing process..

well, it may happen, but only if you really wish that, it is not the standard behavior...

Let me explain better: by default, DSP-Quattro closes an audio file when you click on the red button of its window. In this case, if the file is playing, DSP-Quattro stops to play it before to dismiss it from the project. But, if you wish, you can simply 'hide' it instead of closing it using the menu command 'Window->HideCurrentDocument'.

It is very useful when you have loaded a file on the AudoCD layout and you wish to edit the same file on the waveform editor. As soon as you have done, closing the window, DSP-Quattro asks if you really wish to close it (removing it also from the AudioCD layout) or simply to hide it, keeping it loaded into the project and on AudioCD layout.

Using the preferences dialog, you can set that the standard behavior must be to hide but not to close. In this case, if you hide an audio file editor while it is playing, it continues to play also if hidden.

You have not quit DSP-Quattro to stop it playing of course! Just open the Document Manager (click on Docs on the Master window), you will see your audio file listed there (it is still loaded into the project), double click on it to re-open the waveform editor and stop it.

Hoping this will help you,

thanks!

Stefano Daino
www.dsp-quattro.com

[sdaino]

Originally Posted by Jperkinski

Is there a way to have more than 2 stereo tracks to work from in DSP-Quattro? If there is I can't seem to find the setting.

no, there is not. DSP-Quattro is a mono/stereo audio file editor, and its AudioCD layout is not a multitrack editor, it is really an Audio CD timeline.

The internal audio engine allows as many as audio tracks you would like, and you can play at the same time how many audio files, virtual instruments, audio inputs you wish until the CPU will not collapse.

But, about editing, a multichannel editor is scheduled, but I think that a multitrack editor is a different story, there are other amazing applications doing that so well...

BTW, using DSP-Quattro, just open your reference audio file into a waveform editor and put it below the AudioCD layout. Maybe you are not so far away from what you are looking for...


Thanks
Stefano Daino
www.dsp-quattro.com

[Jperkinski]

Originally Posted by sdaino

no, there is not. DSP-Quattro is a mono/stereo audio file editor, and its AudioCD layout is not a multitrack editor, it is really an Audio CD timeline.

The internal audio engine allows as many as audio tracks you would like, and you can play at the same time how many audio files, virtual instruments, audio inputs you wish until the CPU will not collapse.

But, about editing, a multichannel editor is scheduled, but I think that a multitrack editor is a different story, there are other amazing applications doing that so well...

BTW, using DSP-Quattro, just open your reference audio file into a waveform editor and put it below the AudioCD layout. Maybe you are not so far away from what you are looking for...


Thanks
Stefano Daino
www.dsp-quattro.com

Good idea about moving the wave editor window below the layout. That should work well enough for that purpose. Excellent idea.

Thanks.

[Twerk]

Stefano, any chance you can make it so the audio file format I choose to export to, can become the default? I always export to Wave, so it would be nice to avoid the additional dialog.

[sdaino]

Originally Posted by Twerk

Stefano, any chance you can make it so the audio file format I choose to export to, can become the default? I always export to Wave, so it would be nice to avoid the additional dialog.

yes it is also easy to do. Very good suggestion. The next version of DSP-Quattro will keep the last setting when showing again the export dialog.

Thanks!
Stefano Daino
www.dsp-quattro.com

[Twerk]

Originally Posted by sdaino

yes it is also easy to do. Very good suggestion. The next version of DSP-Quattro will keep the last setting when showing again the export dialog.

Thanks!
Stefano Daino
www.dsp-quattro.com

Thanks! Sorry to hijack the OP and turn it into a feature request thread.

Stefano, you are the man.