ProcessPack - Changes in V1.25

  • There is now an Archiving utility. In the Actions menu there is an item ‘Archiving…’. Clicking on this brings up a new window. Typically archiving is used to ‘clear the decks’ prior to beginning a new project. It stores all current sound-files, notes, breakpoint, mix and configuration files into a user-named Archive directory. At a later stage, the Archive can be retrieved to begin working with these materials again. There are three checkboxes for ‘Set New Archive Name’, where the user can enter his or her own name for the archive; ‘Begin Archiving Process’ which stores all the files into the Archive name given, within the Archives directory, and ‘Retrieve Archive’, where the user is prompted to select the Archive he/she wishes to retrieve. If the archive name is set – for example to ‘Blocks1’, clicking OK will set the name, and the Archive window will re-appear with the name placed in the box alongside. Then if the user selects ‘Begin Archiving Process’, and again clicks OK, the archiving is achieved. (Do not be surprised when the left-hand pane, containing all the sound-file names, re-appears empty!  – this is, of course, correct!) The Archive screen does not re-appear at this point – it you wish to retrieve the archive, then you click the Archiving… item in the Actions list again.
  • There is a new item in the Dispersal main screen. This is a checkbox saying ‘Re-use last drawn curves’. If this is checked, then the most recently-drawn curves are used again. This is to avoid the situation where – for example when the user elects to re-run the process because of distortion in the output file – the user is faced with re-drawing curves each time. It may happen that if this checkbox is checked and the number of points in the curves does not match the number of segments selected, that the re-use of the stored curves is not possible. In this case the user is informed that re-drawing is necessary, and the drawing window will appear automatically.
  • Dispersal may now be used to cut out a segment of a specific length from a sound-file without any other modification. To do this, first select ‘None’ for each of the Transposition Functions, External and Internal. Next, select ‘Single’ for Segment Selection and ‘1’ for ‘How many segments?’, ‘Forward’ for the Segment Cut Position, and the start time of the desired segment in the ‘Single Segment Time’ box. The Segment Cut Length may be set to the desired duration from this point to the maximum length of the sound-file.
  • The ‘Sort Soundfiles’ sub-menu of the Actions menu now includes two new items, ‘Show MONO files only’, and ‘Show STEREO files only’.