Dimension Pro: Feature Request - Trigger Delay

Hi Everyone,

I recently purchased the SWA dimension pro video, which is a great intro to Dimension, especially for beginners. 

One thing I noticed after watching was the absence of trigger delays. There may be  times when you wish to delay the triggering of a particular element within a composite sound (e.g. I might want a cymbal/bell to strike say 50-100 ms after the initial key press.) 

Have I missed something? Is there a right click menu that allows for this?

You can simulate a delay of sorts with the EG's by simply adding a node after the attack stage node, dragging that to the time you wish and then creating a new "attack" stage with the EG, but some/most of the waveform's transient information is lost since the wave is still triggered at keypress.  For percussive sounds, this is the most important bit! 

If there is no real workaround for this (bar physically taking the waveform into a wave editor and manually adding the delay :( ) could it be included in the next update to Dimension Pro?

Thanks
Uche :) 

worthy ideas, but I doubt Cakewalk is doing much more work on DimPro.  SFZ, yes (see beatscape), but I expect something new for their paying bass, building upon DP and Rapture.

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uche_eke

One thing I noticed after watching was the absence of trigger delays. There may be  times when you wish to delay the triggering of a particular element within a composite sound (e.g. I might want a cymbal/bell to strike say 50-100 ms after the initial key press.) 

Disclaimer: I'm fairly up to speed on Rapture, but have done very little with DP.  That said, a quick look at the doc suggests that you can use a simple stereo delay on the element you want delayed.  Set the desired delay time, set it to 100% wet, and I think it'll give you the result you're after.
 
If that doesn't work, another possibility is a custom sfz file using the delay parameter.  But just because delay is in the sfz spec, it doesn't guarantee that DP will support that parameter.  Not all sfz parameters are supported by DP and Rapture, and there's no list documenting what is there vs what's not.