{"id":11,"date":"2012-02-21T10:48:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T15:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oscillicious.com\/blog\/beatcleaver-12-zoom\/"},"modified":"2012-02-21T10:48:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T15:48:07","slug":"beatcleaver-12-zoom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oscillicious.com\/blog\/beatcleaver-12-zoom\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoooooooooooooom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To continue showcasing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/oscillicious.tumblr.com\/post\/17602159560\/beatcleaver-whats-next\">what&#8217;s new<\/a> in the next version BeatCleaver, here&#8217;s a peek our next big feature: Zoom!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zoom, seriously? Why is that exciting? Why didn&#8217;t BeatCleaver have this before?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Zoom in BeatCleaver 1.2 is exciting because it&#8217;s slick, intuitive, and incredibly easy to use. We spent a lot of time carefully considering how to implement zoom because we think it&#8217;s the first place where the design of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audacity.org\">other wave editors<\/a>\u00a0starts to go wrong. To continue to make BeatCleaver easy to use, we wanted to take a different approach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BeatCleaver&#8217;s waveform zoom is better because it&#8217;s completely fluid, &#8220;tool-less&#8221;, and frustration-free.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>See for yourself:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mo1NB3bBn_M?rel=0]<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no juggling between tools, holding modifier keys, or jarring &#8220;snapping&#8221; of the zoom. To zoom in BeatCleaver, just:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>scroll your mousewheel,<\/li>\n<li>do two-finger scrolling on Mac trackpads,\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>or grab the zoom bar at the bottom and drag up.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(The two-finger scrolling works both horizontally to scroll and vertically to zoom in\/out &#8211; it feels fantastic!)<\/p>\n<p><strong>So why didn&#8217;t BeatCleaver have zoom before?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Initially, our primary use case was slicing short WAV drum loops, for which zoom wasn&#8217;t essential. We also thought that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/oscillicious.tumblr.com\/post\/17602159560\/beatcleaver-whats-next\">MP3\/M4A support<\/a> was a more useful feature, and that zoom would make the most sense after BeatCleaver could handle bigger files. <strong>So for the next release of BeatCleaver, we&#8217;ve added all of that!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the video above, you might also notice our revamped our file loading code, which renders files as we load them, so you never have to wait. Need to load a 20 minute long song to slice from? No problem. Want to slice up some cool sounds from your last epic jam session? Piece of cake.<\/p>\n<p>As we touched on before, there&#8217;s now an overview waveform at the bottom which can be grabbed and dragged to control scrolling and zoom. We spent a lot of time tweaking the exact feel of this &#8220;zoombar&#8221;, and we think it beats the pants off everything else out there. When our new release is out, give it a shot and let us know what you think!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re now starting closed beta testing for this new version of BeatCleaver, and if that goes well, we should be nearing a release. But before that, we&#8217;ve got one more little feature to reveal\u00a0here on the blog before we launch, <strong>so stay tuned!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To continue showcasing\u00a0what&#8217;s new in the next version BeatCleaver, here&#8217;s a peek our next big feature: Zoom! Zoom, seriously? Why is that exciting? Why didn&#8217;t BeatCleaver have this before? Zoom in BeatCleaver 1.2 is exciting because it&#8217;s slick, intuitive, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oscillicious.com\/blog\/beatcleaver-12-zoom\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,12,17,15,16],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beatcleaver","tag-features","tag-preview","tag-sampling","tag-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oscillicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oscillicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oscillicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oscillicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oscillicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oscillicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oscillicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oscillicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oscillicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}