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gpvillamil:
The DSP Studio dialog (which should be renamed) could use the standard OK|Cancel buttons. Right now the close button is the only way to dismiss.

jgreen:
I noticed this also in v12, but I went back to 11.1 and it doesn't have a "close" button either, and we never complained.  Currently the developers seem to be conserving buttons, perhaps in anticipation of some future need, some button-riddled box currently under development, I guess.

Matt:
Changes happen as you make them.  There's no apply, and then also no need for cancel.

I never knew there was so much "DSP Studio" baggage.  I like the name Sound Slice-n-Dice.

gpvillamil:

--- Quote from: Matt on June 29, 2006, 10:32:30 am ---Changes happen as you make them.  There's no apply, and then also no need for cancel.

I never knew there was so much "DSP Studio" baggage.  I like the name Sound Slice-n-Dice.

--- End quote ---
Actually there *is* a need for cancel. The options in DSP Studio are quite complex, and a user can accidentally get in a situation where things go strange, and they'd like to back out, and leave things the way they were. This is especially true because (at least on my system) changes *don't* happen as you make them, but a few seconds later as the buffer catches up.

Right now the only way to get rid of the DSP Studio dialog is the close button - which is *not* what most users are trained to expect. Most people expect to exit a dialog via "OK" or "Cancel" (and their associated keyboard shortcuts, Enter and Escape).

I suspect you don't get a lot of comments re DSP Studio because a lot of new users never even go there (can't tell what it does), and the experienced ones have just adapted to it.

Sound Slice & Dice would confuse knowledgeable people who work with computer audio, because a lot of desktop music software does include "beat slicers", which is a very specific function.

Which reminds me, why not support VST plugins in MC12, then you could really "slice & dice"!

jgreen:
Clearly a schism has appeared in the beta test crew:  the pro-studio loyalists and, well, those other guys.  Even though "studio" is definitely a noun, it conveys a verb-like sense of action, of destiny.  Therefore I think it's fine like it is, and maybe jriver ought to name more things "studio".

As for VST plugins, most definitely.  I believe there's currently a workaround for this, using yet another plugin to adapt the VSTs to DirectX.  Elegant?  No.  But you get the functionality.

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