Movable and Fixed Audio Clips and/or Instruments

[Jean-Francois Arseneau]

It would be nice to be able to select how Jokosher deals with audio clips that does not have the place to squeeze in between two other audio clips. As it is now, if you try to import an audio clip where there is no space to fit the clip, Jokosher appends it after in the next available spot. I'll call this "fixed" behaviour until a better term comes along.

Now "movable" would be that, if your audio clips would be set as movable, if I come in and import an audio clip between two audio clips and there is not enough space for it, if the clip on the right of the clip trying to be imported is set to movable, it would nudge itself rightward to make space for the new one, that is, if the clip after that isn't fixed. I guess to make things simpler, we could just make instruments change between "fixed" behaviour and "movable" behaviour, so all the clips on that instrument would be nudged rightward to make space, keeping in proportion with the gaps and everything, unless the clip could fit in that gap (at which point, it would just import the clip and not move anything)

Unless, hm, if you'd want movable and you'd want to keep gaps, you'd have to add in "gap clips" or something...

[Laszlo Pandy (laszlok)]

I like this idea, and it would not be terribly difficult to implement. The only problem would by trying to explain this to the user. We could put something in preferences like "Select Audio Clip Moving Behaviour" and a combo with the three types mentioned, but I doubt any user would understand this without a detailed explaination and an example.