Adding Timings to songs - would be like a tapper wizard

[ricopico]

I was building my first sequence, and saw that if a tapper wizard was introduced, it would take a lot of the work out of adding the timings to a new sequence.  Right now its pretty easy, but adding this feature would make it even easier.  Right now, you have to make sure that you don't highlight over a previous timed part of the sequence, and then stretch out the time window to match up to the end of the previous.
If a wizard was added, you could start the wizard, play the sequence, and each tap would show a contiguous time with timing ticks for each time the mouse was clicked, or the space bar pressed.

[MrChristmas2000]

Have you ever checked out the XLTap on the releases page?

http://nutcracker123.com/nutcracker/releases/

It is easy, produces a timings file easily imported into Nutcracker or even edited in Audacity.

[danj]

I second the thought on the xltap app; works really well.   I have used it for a bunch of my XL sequences.

[sean]

in the future we will embed xltap into xlights, probably for XL 4.2 like june/july timeframe

[BobinWV]

Thank you Sean!!  Being able to see the waveform and get visual cues when marking timing is is real plus for me.

BobinWV

[Gilrock]

Not sure if it will make it in 4.0.14 but I just checked in a change that allows you to add timings while the sequence is playing.  You just hit the 't' key like you would normally.  It was mentioned earlier that you can't insert a timing mark over a region where timing already exists but that is only true if you are trying t insert a range.  If you select a single point it will insert and that's the same logic that I'm using to let you place marks wherever the playback marker is.  So if the playback marker is active that is where marks will get entered.  This does prevent inserting somewhere other than the play marker during a pause though so like with most changes I probably make 10 people happy and 5 people upset....lol.