After FL6, what?

[rbet]

Just wondering. What do the devs have in mind? What more features can be integrated into FL? What is planned? This thread is a spinoff from the 'what's missing for you in FL' thread, I know.

[arke]

Start over from scratch. Take the nice step sequencer. Now, however, instead of assigning to mixer tracks, each instrument automatically has a mixer track and you can add more as you wish. Then, have a playlist that is still pattern oriented but per instrument, that means each instrument is in a "folder" where the patterns for notes and automation reside. Add audio tracks integrated into the playlist. Add automation clips as overlays onto the actual thing. Also, add folder tracks which act as instruments (so you group your drum samples together like that preventing you from having one mixer for every one, or whatever).

[jens]

Start over from scratch.

yup - best advice that can be given in this case...

[Kriminal]

After FL6, what?

FL7 ?

[Reverse Engineer]

After FL6, what?

FL7 ?

Or FL 6.5?

[soulkraka]

After FL6, what?

FL7 ?

FL 6.016378d more likely though.

[Shane Sanders]

Start over from scratch. Take the nice step sequencer. Now, however, instead of assigning to mixer tracks, each instrument automatically has a mixer track and you can add more as you wish.

I don't have it in front of me, but I think you can set a preference which will automatically assign each newly added VSTi to the next available mixer slot. Is that what you're after?

Also, add folder tracks which act as instruments (so you group your drum samples together like that preventing you from having one mixer for every one, or whatever).

Hmmm. This would seem to contradict your first request on some level as you'd be getting each new instrument auto-assigned. Also, and I think you know this already, but even though each instrument has its own property panel, they don't really have their own mixer channel unless you assign it (which is a good thing, imo). So, you can load up a number of soundfonts (or whatever) of various drum collections and assign them to any number of mixer outputs. Then, because FLS will let you onion-skin in the piano roll, you can see all your drum parts as if they were one. Not ideal, but still quite a step up from most sequencers which don't allow onion-skinning.

edit: I should also add that using the drop down menu from within the piano roll is the way to then quickly change from one instrument to another. Your folder idea is cool, though, but it still is only a birds-eye view of what you have conceptually grouped together and not a view of how the notes relate. Thus, the FLS onion-skinning that would make that possible is already there.

Additionally, and I haven't bothered with this because I work mentally a different way, but someone said it is possible to hide the intruments not used that are associated with a pattern. Me, I just leave them all visible and just think of it as a list of all that is potentially available to me in a given set of measures (or pattern, depending on how ya look at it).

[rbet]

After FL6, what?

FL7 ?

Thought so!

I hope JMC or Gol can contribute to this thread by talking about any planned features.

[headquest]

After FL6 perhaps they could release FL3 for people who want to get back to basics? That could be the real killer simple pattern sequencer

[Dj Mu7!L80R]

FL6...do you know when will be released ???

[Jason Brian Merrill]

tonite

[lion_cub]

Is FL6 the version to end all versions ?

[Jason Brian Merrill]

.. of all sequencers,hosts, and governments.

[tERMoBLUe]

h5n1 ?...

[crimsontider]

They need to drop support for those stupid ass VSTI's