[Jsonar] a little introduction, and a question about the fx bin

[Scott Chesworth]

Hi Tim,

Yep, that cracked it, I was set to display custom before.  Thanks for the tip!

Scott

On 10/4/08, Tim Burgess <tim at raisedbar.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Make sure you're displaying all of the columns in the Track View by pressing
> Shift+Left (or Right) Arrow until you hear "All".  If you then save your
> project, this view setting will be preserved and you should be able to
> navigate to all of your fields.  Better yet, load up your Normal.CWT file,
> then make the same change and save - this will mean that all future projects
> based on this default template will already be prepared for being friendly.
>
> Best wishes.
>
> Tim Burgess
> Raised Bar Ltd
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: jsonar-bounces at jsonar.org [mailto:jsonar-bounces at jsonar.org] On Behalf
> Of Scott Chesworth
> Sent: 04 October 2008 11:21
> To: JSonar -- JAWS Scripts for Sonar list
> Subject: Re: [Jsonar] a little introduction, and a question about the fx bin
>
> Hi Vic - thanks for the reply man.  I have this working now, though not
> reading quite as I'd expected, just wanted to check whether what I'm getting
> is the normal behaviour.
>
> When I use track inspector view to reach the fx bin, each time I arrow right
> or left I just get the message "fx bin, press applications key to insert or
> delete effects" announced.  There's nothing to indicate which effect is
> highlighted.  The ctrl+shift+f keystroke works for me, and it seems to be
> reading out the effects in the right order too, so using that I can figure
> out which effect is where in the chain so far, but hitting the keystroke
> twice just gives me a "field not found"
> message.  When I arrow along a strip, I'm not finding anything to do with
> effects currently, so I guess I'll need to modify what is being displayed in
> each strip so that the fx bin is available in both views for ctrl+shift+f
> twice to start working.  Any nudges toward the right place to do that would
> be handy, and hopefully once that's done it'll start reading which effect is
> highlighted from the track inspector too?
>
> Scott
>
> On 10/3/08, Victor Tsaran <vtsaran at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Scott,
>> When you are on a track, arrow to the effect bin (or press
>> CTRL+SHIFT+F twice). Then use right and left arrows to move between
>> all the effects present on that track.
>> If you want to open those effects in a plug-in window, then hit ENTER
>> on one of those effects.
>> If you want to access parameters through Track Inspector, then switch
>> to it, arrow down to where your effects are inserted, and then use
>> right and left arrows to move between all effects inserted on that track.
>> Vic
>>
>> Scott Chesworth wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I took the plunge today and installed jsonar 7.1.  Just had a few
>>> hours to tinker with it, mostly it's just been me blundering around
>>> with the announce help messages option firmly set to on!  I'm coming
>>> at this having been a Pro Tools user on mac for the last 5-6 years,
>>> so at the moment the change of interface is all pretty mind-blowing
>>> for me.  That said, I seem to be slowly getting a feel for the layout.
>>> I'm feeling pretty confident that I've grasped most of the stuff to
>>> do with basic selection by chopping up a song and doing some
>>> rearranging and suchlike.  I thought I'd have a delve into a few of
>>> these effects cakewalk have kindly supplied too, which is where I've
>>> run in to my first problem.  I can figure out how to have multiple
>>> effects on one track, what I can't figure out is how to access the
>>> parameters for anything more than the most recent effect I've put on
>>> there.  To give you an example - I have a section in this song that's
>>> just fairly roomy drums.  Imagine I wanted to compress the hell out
>>> of them to really bring out the room.  Then imagine that just wasn't
>>> enough room so I might want to ad some extra from a Lexicon plugin.
>>> Finally, imagine I'm having a particularly poppy Friday night and I
>>> want some sort of sweeping filter over that new squashed drum sound
>>> to bring this song in.  What I'd currently do based on todays
>>> learning would be to select the track with this clip of drums, hit
>>> tab to go to the track inspector, go down to fx bin, hit application
>>> and insert my first effect the compressor.  When I'm happy with how
>>> that's set, I'd repeat the steps and insert the lexicon, you get the
>>> idea.  What I can't figure out is, supposing all 3 of these effects
>>> are in but suddenly I decide I want to change the lexicon preset or
>>> even see what it sounds like with the compression bypassed, how do I
>>> get back from controlling the most recent effect in the chain?
>>>
>>> Sorry it's a long one folks, I tend to ramble on when I'm excited
>>> about something new.  Thanks in advance to anyone who made it to the
>>> end and still has the will to help!
>>>
>>> Scott
>>>
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