A new Audio Scrub Mode adds to the location facilities, and you can manipulate the Song Position Line directly in order to hear selected portions of the arrangement. The GAM's graphic display of Upbeats and Cuts as shaded areas may help some users come to terms with this extremely powerful, but potentially complex, aspect of the program. Experienced C-Lab users, I believe, may find little practical use for GAM, but then I rather suspect that it wasn't included for their benefit. Rather than spend time zooming in and out, it makes more sense to flip back to the conventional Arrange listing, where numeric data allows ultimate precision. Therein lies the problem with GAM, for me the lowest resolution only just about gives me the number of arrangement bars that I want to see at one time, but the display resolution is then far too low to do any detailed work. A bar number display down the left-hand edge of the screen interacts with a moving Song Position Line to show the current time position.Ĭlicking the Zoom function stretches or compresses the display between 2.5 bars at maximum resolution up to 51 bars, although on displays of over 35 bars only every other bar is indicated. The four arrange levels - 'a', 'b', 'c', and 'd' - are maintained, and you can edit beams in an intuitive manner, dragging them into position and pulling at the bottom right-hand corner to extend their length. The primary advantage is obviously that the size of the vertical block indicates the length of the pattern, whereas in the conventional arrange listing a 1-bar pattern occupies as much space as a 32-bar pattern. It is somewhat like a Cubase display turned through 90 degrees, with the beams representing patterns rather than individual parts. Graphic Arrange Mode (GAM) is really the core feature of V3.1. V3.1 not only fixes this, but also addresses some rather more long-standing problems and peculiarities, as well as offering three major new operating facilities: Graphic Arrange Mode, where the arrangement listing is exchanged for visual representations of the patterns as vertical bars Fostex Mode, which allows remote control of suitably equipped tape recorders and 32-Track View which makes the old '32-Tracks-Per-Pattern' mode a little easier to use. Version 3 was not exactly received with universal acclaim despite a number of powerful new features it also introduced a degree of incompatibility with TOS (the Atari ST operating system), which caused trouble on older machines. Just over a year after its Version 3 update, C-Lab has again upgraded its renowned Notator and Creator MIDI sequencer programs for the Atari, to V3.1.
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