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transport control buttons
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2017 3:33 pm
by midiw
It seems that the transport control buttons ( upper left hand corner ) are set up wrong.
The 3 buttons in the middle are rewind, stop, play. Should they not be rewind play, stop. In other words, you would hit play before you hit stop.
And also would like to be able to have the entire set of those transport buttons as a window that could be placed at the bottom or anywhere on the screen.
Yes, no, or any other thoughts/comments, please.
Re: transport control buttons
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2017 3:54 pm
by cuttime
I guess that in order to continue the tape machine analogy they have kept stop before play, as all of my tape machines have always been arranged, but usually the FF and REW buttons are grouped together.
You are aware that you can float the control panel out of the Consolidated windows with a preference?
Re: transport control buttons
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2017 8:44 pm
by midiw
Many thanks for your interest/reply to my question/problem.
Understand what you are saying about the tape machine analogy perhaps MOTU should revamp that area to do it the way other DAW's have those buttons.
You are aware that you can float the control panel out of the Consolidated windows with a preference?
Yes, but i completely forgot about using the " float " before i posted.
Re: transport control buttons
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2017 9:07 pm
by cuttime
I just noticed that the Control Panel preference used to have a "transparency" setting that seems gone since what version?
Re: transport control buttons
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2017 6:46 am
by midiw
Some what off topic however i noticed that your OS and iMac is 10.12.4 i7 iMac 16G
My OS is macOS Sierra 10.12.4 and computer is an iMac ( 2009 edition ) with 12G.
Ever since updating to macOS Sierra 10.12.4 from 10.12.3 the available memory has dropped to nearly half of my available 12 G.
Have you noticed a significant drop in available memory with your OS/computer ?
Re: transport control buttons
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2017 10:09 am
by cuttime
midiw wrote:
Have you noticed a significant drop in available memory with your OS/computer ?
No. I keep a pretty good eye on it using Activity Monitor. I would use that to see where it is going. I always see a pretty big chunk going to the kernal_task process that regularly eats up about 800-900 MB on startup. My iMac is a mid 2011.
Re: transport control buttons
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2017 1:24 pm
by daniel.sneed
If you want to keep an eye on available memory and CPU, MenuMeters app is your friend.
I could not work relaxed thru long sessions without.