Good news is that devs are trying to take care of improving ui/ux, as they fine tuned some GUI elements in 4.0. It's beta period. Which means it's good time for suggestions.
Let's gather some UI fine tuning ideas (not new features)
1. Thicker Barlines
2. Shades outside clip region (at least for clip mode)
This is what you get with #1 and #2
Before
After
3. No auto detection of drum mode:
Have you guys got annoyed by auto switching to drum mode in piano roll? It's a feature but not working well because it relies on 3rd party vendors. Some plugin incorrectly implemens (e.g Serum, BBC Symphony Orchestra). Or don't implement (Addictive Drums)
As a plugin host, 3rd party dependent features should be avoided. I think it's better to have per plugin settings rather than auto detection.
4. Note resize handle fine tuning, improvements
- With tiny notes, can't grap resize handle: At least 1 or 2 pixels margin?
- WIth small notes, resize handles are a bit large: maybe 1~2 pixels less?
- Replace stupidly large Logic-influenced cursor icon and replace it with double headed arrow (⬌)
Edit: I found time range resize icon already got double headed arrow, but can we still make it smaller? Or without tiny triangles, I think it's too verbose. - Time range (white time selection) resize handle shouldn't be available around notes: I accidently resize time range when I want to resize a note. It happles a lot and it means bad ux design.
sorry about my english
