Thank you!

Mostly working on cosmetics now. Should be soon!

BTW, I’m glad to be back, too! That fire got a little too close

Take care,
John

You’re doing fine

#1: SonicMood uses timers to control when notes happen, but there is a random element to that which precludes a beat. It’s meant to be more like wind chimes. But that doesn’t mean that I can’t come up with a setting which allows a beat pattern to be used. I have added your idea to my list of good suggestions.

#2: I do use Audio HiJack Pro sometimes to record Moods. In fact, we’re looking into making some recordings - sort of SonicMood for iTunes. That’s a project that’s going on now.

#3: I could do something like that. For now be aware that you have faders, mute buttons, and pan on the “Instruments” page of the edit window (for the MIDI instruments), and a fader and pan for each soundfile on the “Soundfiles” page. What I would probably do is “mirror” those controls (maybe just one fader for the soundfiles) onto a “mixer” window.

Thanks again for your ideas!
John

Sorry, I don’t speak very well english, it’s not my native language.

#1: Does SonicMood follows a tempo, have you develop it like that? I feel he does a little bit, I would just hear sometimes repetitives claves, less syncopation. But ok, that’s fine. Or I was thinking to a sync with GarageBand, like midi time code or rewire.As a musician, I wish I can include SonicMood into some compositions.

#2:I understand that it can be very difficult to develop audio effect in SonicMood, but he is so wider and beautyfull with. So I recommand using AudioHijack Pro to add some effect. Or the idea sould be to be able to choose audio out driver, because of SoundFlower 2ch, SonicMood could be send to other audio application like GarageBand.

#3: Yes, I was thinking about 3 faders for the instruments and one other for audiofiles available on the window. Actually we have only 2 controls availables.
It’s because sometimes, I need to quickly adjust balance between the three instruments in playing mode. It’s just an idea.

It is just some ideas, and I repeat, you are developing a beautifull software, and I appreciate your constant progression and work. I wish to be a developer.

best,
San

Thank you for your kind compliment

I have added your suggestions to “the list”. I’ll see what can be done to implement them.

Re #1. You can affect the tempo somewhat now using the “Note Pacing” slider that’s just below the pause/play buttons near the top left of the main window. But it doesn’t provide a specific beat per note, just a general speed up or slow down of the notes overall.

Re #2. I did try to add some reverb, etc, but couldn’t seem to make it work. You might want to check out the “sound motion” page in the edit window. You can get a pretty interesting echo effect using “Echo” with a short cycle time.

Re #3. I’m not sure I understand why the edit window isn’t adequate? You don’t have to edit the Mood that’s playing, you know. Are you asking for all the level and pan controls to be in one window? That’s a possibility; but maybe you could describe your thoughts on this in a little more detail?

Thanks for the suggestions!

John

You are developping a great software here.
Thak you.

We’re adding this in order to address Ward’s concerns about pausing SonicMood to listen to something else and then returning to SonicMood’s sounds.

We could add back/forward buttons, a volume control, and the name of the current Mood. What do you think?

BTW, when SonicMood has the focus you can just hit the spacebar to pause SonicMood. That probably doesn’t help you here, since the browser (or whatever) would have focus. You’d still have to switch over to SonicMood before you hit the spacebar…

I’ll see what I can come up with. Thanks for the idea!

Cheers,
John

I can already foresee a problem: while reading a website, I’ll encounter a music clip or video … jump to the Dock to pause SonicMood … play/watch the clip … return to the Dock to resume SonicMood … rinse and repeat.

It would be fabulous if SonicMood could detect other audio and automatically pause for the duration, plus a short period to give me a chance to choose another song/video.

For the time being, I’ll make due with a global QuicKeys keyboard shortcut.

Cheers,
John