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Doggiebox
Doggiebox 2.0
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Versatile drum machine.   Shareware ($39)
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Doggiebox is a versatile percussion sequencer for the Mac, designed with power and ease-of-use in mind. Whether you are a hobbyist or a professional musician, Doggiebox provides the flexibility and precision to create realistic drum tracks in minutes.

With Doggiebox, you can:
  • Create percussion tracks of unlimited length and complexity, including arbitrary tempo and time signature changes.
  • Input and adjust events using the mouse, the keyboard, or any MIDI input
What's New
Version 2.0:

Doggiebox 2.0 is a significant and long-awaited update that brings a number of new features, improvements and bug fixes.

Improved song and pattern editing:
  • Navigation and editing controls are now in a floating tool palette
  • Playback begins at the insertion point, and the playhead can now be moved around freely using cursor keys or the mouse
  • The current playhead position is now shown, in bars and beats as well as minutes and seconds
  • New drag and drop support in the pattern editor lets you re-arrange bars by dragging them, or make a copy by holding the Option key
  • The drum kit palette is now a floating window, with better arrangement. Drum shortcut keys are shown in tool tips
  • New contextual (right-click) menus are available in many places, including in the pattern editor as well as the section and playlists
  • A new recording mode allows drums to be inserted at the playhead location by pressing their shortcut keys, or in response to MIDI messages
  • An arbitrary sample rate and bit depth may now be chosen when exporting audio files
  • It is now possible to export a separate mix for each of the instrument groups assigned in the drum kit
  • Significant improvements during drum kit reconciliation when switching kits in a song. In particular, your mapping choices are now remembered and used as defaults
Improved drum kit editing:
  • Sound files of any sample rate and bit depth may now be assigned to instruments. (Previously, only 44.1 kHz mono or stereo sounds were supported.)
  • Drum kits can now feature any number of instrument groups; the pattern editor will change accordingly. (Previously, there were always five.)
  • The drum kit components are now presented in a column-based view, allowing for easier management
  • Undo and redo is now supported for all actions, as well as multi-row selection for copy/paste and drag & drop operations
  • New contextual (right-click) menus are available in many places throughout the drum kit editor
General improvements:
  • Doggiebox will now check for and install new software updates automatically
  • Documents that were left open on last quit are now automatically re-opened. The position and size of document windows are now also saved and restored
  • Richer information is now exported to MIDI files, including time signature changes as well as song name and notes
  • Changes made to preferences are now reflected immediately
  • The Doggiebox User's Guide has been entirely rewritten
Other user interface changes:

A number of lesser details have changed slightly, which might be of note if you are upgrading from Doggiebox 1.4.3.

  • Zooming now behaves more conventionally. You can hold the Option key to zoom the selected pattern(s) independently of the rest
  • To cycle through an instrument's variants with the keyboard, you must now press the Option key along with its shortcut
  • The File menu's Export commands now export the entire song. Use the new Export Selection commands to export arbitrary patterns
  • The beat selection cursor is now exposed when hovering the mouse near the top of the pattern, rather than by holding the Option key as previously
  • Pressing the Home/End keys (or Command-Up/Down) will now go to the top and bottom, respectively, in the pattern editor as well as the section list and playlist
  • Looping and mono fold-down modes are now global, instead of on a per-song basis
  • Added a preference to toggle MIDI MMC/MTC output, so it can be turned off if not needed
  • The master tempo slider, as well as several vestigial preferences options, have been removed
  • Various cosmetic improvements throughout

In addition to the above, a numerous assortment of other bugs have also been fixed.

Version 2.0:

Doggiebox 2.0 is a significant and long-awaited update that brings a number of new features, improvements and bug fixes.

Improved song and pattern editing:
  • Navigation and editing controls are now in a floating tool palette
  • Playback begins at the insertion point, and the playhead can now be moved around freely using cursor keys or the mouse
  • more...
Requirements
  • PPC / Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 or later is required
  • Mac OS X 10.6 or 10.7 are recommended







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Doggiebox User Discussion (Write a Review)
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Anonymous reviewed on 21 Mar 2004
Heh heh! Wicked little drum machine for my mac! It's fun to fart around with it, now that my buddy scammed both of my 202's...
[Version 1.1]


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Anonymous reviewed on 24 Oct 2003
I just tried to run Doggiebox under 10.2.8 and it will not open. I have tried reloading etc but nothing seems to work. I hope there is going to be an update. This sounds like a great program.
[Version 1.0.4]

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burypromote

Anonymous commented on 08 Nov 2003
What exactly happens when "it will not open"?

Chances are you unstuffed it using Stuffit Expander 8.0, which is broken. It fubar's the permissions on files. Get the latest version and try again.

If it still fails, please contact me directly at support at doggiebox dot com and I'll work through the problem with you.

-ben
burypromote


Anonymous reviewed on 03 Mar 2003
My bad. I was running it off of a non-bootable partiton. As soon as I moved the app to my startup partition it exported like a charm. Thanks again Ben!
[Version 1.0.1]


burypromote


Anonymous reviewed on 03 Mar 2003
Just tried to export various formats (2 types of AIFFS & a WAV) & continually got an error message - "Doggiebox has detected a problem, most likely the application is damaged..."

At least this time the "save as" comes up once I go to "export" :-)
[Version 1.0.1]


burypromote


Anonymous reviewed on 03 Mar 2003
No prob. Zy. Thanks for checking the posts here so quickly! ;-) Now to go export my little test song...
[Version 1.0.1]


burypromote


Anonymous reviewed on 03 Mar 2003
Export was broken in the original posting of 1.0.1 (build 1A8); it has since been fixed and replaced with build 1A9. Please re-download; thanks for mentioning this!
[Version 1.0.1]


burypromote


Anonymous reviewed on 03 Mar 2003
Maybe it's just me, but every time I try to export audio nothing happens. Could "export" be disabled?
[Version 1.0.1]


burypromote


Anonymous reviewed on 16 Dec 2002
This software is AWESOME!! With the new version, you can export your songs into an AIFF, WAV, etc. and the best part is that it's FREE! Hats off to Zygoat!
[Version 1.0cB1A5]


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Downloads:14,508
Version Downloads:165
Type:Multimedia & Design : Audio
License:Shareware
Date:22 Aug 2011
Platform:PPC / Intel
Price: $39.00
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Doggiebox is a versatile percussion sequencer for the Mac, designed with power and ease-of-use in mind. Whether you are a hobbyist or a professional musician, Doggiebox provides the flexibility and precision to create realistic drum tracks in minutes.

With Doggiebox, you can:
  • Create percussion tracks of unlimited length and complexity, including arbitrary tempo and time signature changes.
  • Input and adjust events using the mouse, the keyboard, or any MIDI input device.
  • Define, arrange and re-use sections (such as verses and choruses) by dragging and dropping, for efficient song building.
  • Export songs as audio files, or play them back in real time through any MIDI-compliant device or application.
  • Create and customize drum kits using your own sounds and iconography, and try out different kits while working on a song.
  • And more…
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