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DTAB V1.03 Beta Testing |
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By Kevin Picone 21,May,2011 |
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DTAB V1.03 Work In Progress
Work is progressing nicely on the next upgrade of DTAB. Our focus for V1.03, is improving the user friendliness of the application. One of area that's needed work is the mouse interface in the tab editor. Which now supporst for the scroll wheel. The wheels action is context driven, so it'll respond differently depending upon where you use it. The current implementation sees the wheel acting not only as a navigation tool through the drum tab, but as an alternative note selection tool. Selecting notes is as easy as moving the mouse over a staff line then rolling it forward / back through the available note heads. A simple change, but one that's improved the mouse interface dramatically.
Some other additions are note head tool tips, new staff lines and some more tweaks the drum tab playback engine. The note head tool tips help address one of the issues with Drum Tabs for new users, that being it can be difficult to work out what the various note heads mean at first glance. The tips give a short description about note head under the mouse. These can be turned off in the preferences, but they should help new users get up to speed.
One of the biggest new features on the horizon will be the introduction of some web support to dtab, starting with some simple things to help people keep up to date, through to the more complex tab downloader feature. The download feature is an extension drum tab importing frame work. The purpose of the downloader is to fetch a tab from a remote site. The fetching process attempts to get any extra information that may have been removed from the tab body and insert it back. Unfortunately sites often remove the song name and artist information from drum tabs, which just adds another little chore for the user when importing, or just download in general. This just makes it easier!
Hopefully, that's give you some insights on what you'll find in the next Dtab upgrade. Make sure you drop by the DTAB facebook page or check our forums all the latest info on the upgrade.
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