[Bluemusic-users] Aggregate SoundObjects? (Combi's?)

[Steven Y. <ste...@gm...>]

Hi All,

I just had an idea for soundObjects which I think may be a somewhat
clean way to accomplish something that I think has been on mine and
can answer some of the problems others have mentioned.  I was thinking
of creating a new meta-SoundObject that can contain any number of
other SoundObjects.  The SoundObjects would be bound together to share
the same time properties (start, duration, Time Behavior).

So you could create a Combi (I think I heard that term for Reason
Synthesizer Combinations, maybe we could use a different term?) on the
timeline, click it to bring up the editor.  In the editor, you could
then add SoundObjects (i.e. a PianoRoll and a LineObject) and the
editor would stack up the editors on top of each other.  The user
could adjust the height of the individual editors within the Combi
editor.

Any thoughts?

Also, I am still very interested in parameter automation for
instruments and effects (drawing lines on the timeline itself), but I
can see a real usefulness for this kind of combi in the short term and
also for things where control signals are bound to an object and not
really continuous data (as it would be for parameter automation).

Feedback would be very much appreciated!
steven