On to the feature request... Seems to me that Mackie listens to it's userbase regarding which features are most dear to us here at the Raw Material Forum. I hope they take note and make the users' priorities their own. But, I feel sure they must also balance demand for any given request with the time needed to implement that request. I would love to see acid-like looping capabilities but I realize its implementation might take much longer a new key shortcut's for example.
When looking at the favorite feature request...
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121 Folder Tracks
85 Clip Based Automation (and/or Linking)
50 ACID-like Loop Functionality
46 Clip Grouping
37 Loop Record Preroll / Count-in
31 All Audio Features, Functions Work w/ MIDI
23 Native Timestrech
20 Ghost Clips
19 Additional Freeze Options / Improved Freeze
12 Full Screen MIDI Editing (and/or Locked Size)
12 Improved Sampler
9 Full MMC / MIDI Clock Implementation
8 Bezier Curve Handles on Automation Points
7 Destructive Edits on Single Clips
7 VSTi per MIDI Clip
6 Marker Jumping and Sequence Render
6 Mixer
6 Smoother GUI Movements
6 Snapshots
6 Relative Snap
5 Separate Time Window
5 Native Beatslicer
4 Additional Assignable Shortcut Keys
4 Convert Between Multi and Single Clips
4 Linux
4 Additional MIDI Function Key Bindings
4 Drum Editor
3 Ability to Set Default MIDI Tool
3 Aftertouch Support
3 Export w/ Embedded VST dll's
3 Hide/Unhide Lower Pane
3 Lockable Track Size
3 Clip Muting
2 Deleting Single Point from Automation Curves
2 Destructive Pitch-Shifting
2 Shortcut Key / Fix Return Focus to Tracktion
2 Shortcut Key to Reverse Clips
2 Standard Tree View in Project Page
I feel confident that Mackie has some of their own ideas and features in development, ones that they believe will help bring Tracktion to a broader market and they may even have more features in the works which will offer additional support for their hardware products. I don't ever remember any clamor on the forum for Mackie HDR File support, Do you? But, hey, that's fine and good, I don't fault them for that at all.
One thing I hope that Mackie doesn't do is delay the introduction of new features in order to spread them out across multiple paid upgrades. I hope they will add the most requested new feature as soon as they can. IMO, making new converts by bringing the best Tracktion possible will raise more money for Mackie that will stringing along multiple updates. Don't get me wrong I expect to and am willing to pay for upgrades in the future, but I sincerely hope that Mackie will not prolong Tracktion's development based on marketing goals.
Finally, I appreciate Beno's attitude towards the users here and hope that the new programmers share his openness. I also hope they have the same enthusiastic desire to see Tracktion reach its full potential that Jules demonstrated in the past.
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