New: A context menu in our player
April 6, 2023
You can now right-click any music in Soundslice to get some useful options:
The idea is to make some of our player’s functionality more discoverable and easy to access. The current options are:
- “Loop this bar” quickly creates a loop for whichever measure you right-clicked on.
- “Zoom...” opens our Settings panel to the Zoom section.
- “Appearance...” opens our Settings panel to the Appearance section.
- “Instruments...” opens our Settings panel to the Instruments section.
- “Transposition...” opens our Settings panel to the Transposition section.
Please note that the Appearance and Instruments options won’t necessarily always be visible. For example, if the music only contains a single instrument, we automatically simplify our Settings panel to hide the Instruments section.
On touchscreen devices, which obviously don’t have a way to right click, you can open this context menu by doing a long press. Just hold your finger down on the music for about a second.
This context menu is currently only available when viewing a slice — not when editing it. We can envision a bunch of useful context-menu features for editing, so that’s on the to-do list.
If you have any ideas for how we can expand this menu (either in view or edit mode), let us know!