Dev Log #49 - Upcoming transport controls (Patreon)

A good samaritan has offered to send me their old motherboard and CPU so hopefully I will be back up and running on Windows soon. In the meantime I have been continuing to work on macOS but won't be able to release any new builds yet.

The next build will have some additional ways to manipulate the project playback, some of which are shown in the video. Hopefully the changes to the start block will feel intuitive but here is a detailed explanation of the changes as they currently stand:

• Multiple start blocks can be added to the project (Right click on track -> "Add Start Block")
• Right clicking on a start block and enabling "Auto-restart" will automatically trigger a restart event when the playback stops, but only when that block is set as the current "home block".
  
• The home block
  • Clicking on either the play or reset button on a start block sets that block as the current home block
  • The current home block is indicated by a small arrow indicator on the right edge of the block
  • The home block is simply where the playback will jump back to whenever a restart event occurs
  • If there is no current home block when the playback is restarted, it will jump back to the song start block. If there is no current song start block, it will jump back to the zero position.
  • Starting  the playback from the cursor position (default: Tab), or setting the playback to the current cursor position (default: X) will clear the current home block
    
• Song start block
  • Only one start block at a time can be set as the "song start". To do this, right click on the block and enable "Is song start"
  • The song start block is indicated by the treble clef icon, which also acts as the playback restart button.
  • If a song start is set, the song exporter will render the project from that position.