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author | Bent Bisballe Nyeng <deva@aasimon.org> | 2019-05-12 13:54:37 +0200 |
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committer | Bent Bisballe Nyeng <deva@aasimon.org> | 2019-05-12 13:54:37 +0200 |
commit | cea71f777f5da0bd159301680b69ce5fed62aba4 (patch) | |
tree | 6091f10c5f5a9823097b9fac288cce5790e0a846 /plugingui/maintab.cc | |
parent | 585999c31627b61b98414e1966847a0e8a98b3ba (diff) |
Add tips for velocity and timing humanizers as well as the visualizer. Prefix all knob labels with 'p'.
Diffstat (limited to 'plugingui/maintab.cc')
-rw-r--r-- | plugingui/maintab.cc | 66 |
1 files changed, 58 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/plugingui/maintab.cc b/plugingui/maintab.cc index e2ea9d2..1582d5c 100644 --- a/plugingui/maintab.cc +++ b/plugingui/maintab.cc @@ -29,6 +29,58 @@ namespace GUI { +constexpr char humanizer_tip[] = "\ +The first two knobs influence how DrumGizmo simulates the\n\ +stamina of a physical drummers, ie. the fact that they\n\ +loose power in their strokes when playing fast notes:\n\ + * pAttack: How quickly the velocity gets reduced when\n\ + playing fast notes.\n\ + Higher value results in faster velocity reduction.\n\ + * pRelease: How quickly the drummer regains the velocity\n\ + when there are spaces between the notes.\n\ + Higher value results in faster regain.\n\ +\n\ +The last knob controls the randomization of the sample selection:\n\ + * pStdDev: The standard-deviation for the sample selection.\n\ + Higher value makes it more likely that a sample further\n\ + away from the input velocity will be played."; + +constexpr char timing_tip[] = "\ +These three knobs influence how DrumGizmo simulates the tightness\n\ +of the drummer. The drifting is defined as the difference between\n\ +the perfect metronome (defined by the note positions) and the 'internal'\n\ +metronome of the drummer which can then drift back and forth in a\n\ +controlled fashion:\n\ + * pTightness: For each note how much is the drummer aloowed to drift.\n\ + Higher value make the drummer more tight, ie. drift less.\n\ + * pTimingRegain: Once the drifted, how fast does the drummer's 'internal'\n\ + metronome get back in sync with the perfect metronome.\n\ + Higher values moves the timng back towards perfect faster.\n\ + * pLaidback: Add or subtract a fixed delay in ms to all notes. This will\n\ + alter the feel of a beat.\n\ + Positive values are up-beat, negative values are back on the beat.\n\ +\n\ +NOTE: Enabling timing humanization will introduce a fixed delay into the\n\ +audio stream. So this feature should be disabled when using DrumGizmo in\n\ +a real-time schenario such as live with a MIDI drumkit."; + +constexpr char sampleselection_tip[] = "\ +These three knobs influence how DrumGizmo selects\n\ +its samples in the following way:\n\ + * pClose: The importance given to choosing a sample close\n\ + to the actual MIDI value (after humanization)\n\ + * pDiversity: The importance given to choosing samples\n\ + which haven't been played recently.\n\ + * pRandom: The amount of randomness added."; + +constexpr char visualizer_tip[] = "\ +This graph visualizes the time and velocity offsets of last note played\n\ +according to it's ideal input time and velocity.\n\ +The green lines indicate the ideal time and velocity positions.\n\ +The pink areas indicate the spread of the position and velocity of the\n\ +next note in line. The wider the area the more the note can move in time\n\ +and velocity."; + MainTab::MainTab(Widget* parent, Settings& settings, SettingsNotifier& settings_notifier, @@ -54,16 +106,14 @@ MainTab::MainTab(Widget* parent, add("Resampling", resampling_frame, resamplingframe_content, 20, 0); add("Velocity Humanizer", humanizer_frame, humanizerframe_content, 10, 1); - humanizer_frame.setHelpText("Hello World\nThis is a nice World\n... I think"); + humanizer_frame.setHelpText(humanizer_tip); add("Timing Humanizer", timing_frame, timingframe_content, 10, 1); - add("Sample Selection", sampleselection_frame, sampleselectionframe_content, 10, 1); - sampleselection_frame.setHelpText( - "These three knobs influence how DrumGizmo selects its samples in the following way:\n" - " * Close: importance given to choosing a sample close to the actual MIDI value (after humanization)\n" - " * Diversity: importance given to choosing samples which haven't been played recently\n" - " * Random: amount of randomness added" - ); + timing_frame.setHelpText(timing_tip); + add("Sample Selection", sampleselection_frame, + sampleselectionframe_content, 10, 1); + sampleselection_frame.setHelpText(sampleselection_tip); add("Visualizer", visualizer_frame, visualizerframe_content, 10, 1); + visualizer_frame.setHelpText(visualizer_tip); add("Bleed Control", bleedcontrol_frame, bleedcontrolframe_content, 9, 1); add("Disk Streaming", diskstreaming_frame, diskstreamingframe_content, 10, 1); |