if only these few things were fixed....

[jens]

...eXT would appear so much more professional and using it would be so much more enjoyable:


- eXT still doesn't compensate for the asio-latency when recording This is such a terrible thing and it shopldn't be too hard to fix. I really can't understand why this basic neccesity still isn't implemented.

- various performance-problems as mentioned elsewhere
(e.g. incredibly slow gui-reaction when cpu-load >~70%, terrible crashes when switching drivers or changing buffer-sites, etc.)

- there's no redo.

- when clips in the sequencer are overlapping it's still either very difficult or in some cases even impossible to grab the clip which sits 'later' on the timeline.



There are some more things of lesser importance which are a bit 'unellegant' (e.g. you can't simply clone a track, you can't delete a track by use of the delete-key, you can't select several tracks at once) but these four points are imo more important than any neat feature which Jorgen could possibly implement instead of fixing them.


If they also bug you then please stop requesting additional features for a moment and support me here!


(damned - I feel a bit like the voice of reason here - I'm the one who's always got to shout 'NO MORE NEW FEATURES PLEASE BEFORE YOU HAVEN'T CLEANED UP THIS MESS HERE! - no really: it bugs me massively even hough I still get my songs finished!)

[pabloj]

the redo thing is important and i hope that comes along soon.

i'd also like to duplicate a track without having to create a new one and then copy the settings from another channel. well annoying.

[tjvigil66]

Wouldn't the addition of "Redo" into eXT be concidered a feature request???

[jens]

the redo thing is important and i hope that comes along soon.

i'd also like to duplicate a track without having to create a new one and then copy the settings from another channel. well annoying.

But what about this latency problem? Don't you care about this one?

[soma]

I agree that not having redo has got me before. I think that a good way to change the whole undo/redo thing (when or if it ever changes) would be to have a history of actions that you could travel backward and forward in. Photoshop really nailed this one down and I haven't seen anything close to it except for maybe webrowsers.

But what about this latency problem? Don't you care about this one?

I don't do much recording, so it doesn't affect me too much. But can't you just adjust the start point of the recorded clip?

[jens]

Wouldn't the addition of "Redo" into eXT be concidered a feature request???

Technically speaking you're probably right...

[aldi]

asio latency correction is a must!!
also still no way to truncate recorded wavs to what is really used of them in the arrangement. there were some suggestions doing it with render andstuff, but they all don't work. and another thing, when you undo a render selected parts with overwrite track (which would come nearest to what i think must be implemented) it deletes all parts that werent rendered (is simply not possible to undo this kind of rendering)

[disturb]

jens you must have read my mind, the problems you described, appear as ext main issues to my at the moment..

i would also add that in the sequencer, when you add variations, you can't simply copy/paste the sequences from a variation to another (i have to save the midi files and reopen them, maybe i'm missing something?) ; it would also be nice to be able to keep your different tracks when adding an arrangement...

[plastique]

good points .

i just bought minihost to host eXT VSTi to replace the standalone until the reason is found for its weak performance (has no multi-channel audio though) .

[silicon/silicium]

I m with you with this one Jens.

lantency compensation is really needed, and I sometimes get crazy with overlapping clips...

duplicate tracks could be cool.
I don't need redo personnaly

[JoMal]

Count me in on this too. And I'll add another: please let's have standard M:B:T in the piano roll. Editing a long midi sequence and seeing "75" on the timeline is not as helpful as 18:3:0.

J

[disturb]

agreed jomal, i hope jorgen will consider everything that has been mentionned, cause i think everyone made sense so far

[swivel]

i would also add that in the sequencer, when you add variations, you can't simply copy/paste the sequences from a variation to another (i have to save the midi files and reopen them, maybe i'm missing something?) ; it would also be nice to be able to keep your different tracks when adding an arrangement...

you can actually copy/paste one clip at a time between variations (and arrangements) in 1.3.0.


as far as the things jens mentions, I think we all have different priorities. There's one group who uses the sequencer in a midi centered way (no audio), another who is perhaps more audio/recording oriented, and another more modular routing focused with no sequencer. Different users will therefore run into annoyances that are non-issues for others.

I also think jorgen is doing a great job of balancing user-requests, with his vision. For example, when multimode first made its appearance, I was very skeptical and for the first time felt that energyxt was going in a needlessly complex direction that I didn't like. But now that I've discovered how live mode works, it all makes perfect sense! my way of working has changed due to live mode, and some of the FRs I thought were so important - when all there was was single mode - have faded away.

So I guess I'm saying we need to trust jorgen to an extent. But also I agree that it would be nice to be able to distinguish between 'would be nice' FR's and 'annoyances' BR's,FR's. Perhaps we could set up a voting system of some sort with every kvr user getting 50 points that he could distribute among items in a list of FR's/BR's. That way we'd have a kind of running poll of what users think the priorities should be.

[jens]

all the things I have mentioned are rather general problems (i.e. not focused on audio or midi) but basically I agree with you.


b.t.w.: thanks for your support so far, guys!

[Noox]

+1 for fixing before adding (but the audio editor is OK ).