skinning XT2

[soma]

My dream gui for eXT2 would be on one single page : seq at the top, with underneath a dock with a part editor tab and mixer tab.
Double clicking a part would automatically bring the part editor tab in focus, and everything in depth would be accessable from there...

Me too. Pictures coming soon.

[undef]

+1 - love the idea of xt2 as an "one-window-app" !!!!!!

[insane]

me? i love all undocked !! the total caos, in fact the browser could be undocked too .

[jorgen]

I think I found a way to expand the object bar, look out for the next upload

cheers
jorgen

[vikis]

My suggestion is to get rid of the Move part from the Object Bar completely. You can move parts already by click+drag and by Ctrl+arrows and to have third option to perform the same task is IMHO over the top. As to what a moving of tracks is concern, I would used same option, click+drag track header up and down or Ctrl+arrows. This way you would established full consistency in the moving function and saved same space. And i found this small arrows in the Object Bar quite cluttering any way.
By the way as it is now Ctrl+arrows doesn't work for vertical movement of clips, I think it should. Peace.

$0.02

[djsubject]

My dream gui for eXT2 would be on one single page : seq at the top, with underneath a dock with a part editor tab and mixer tab.
Double clicking a part would automatically bring the part editor tab in focus, and everything in depth would be accessable from there...

Me too. Pictures coming soon.

as optional this would be way cool!

[vikis]

...to continue my rant from above i would got rid of that arrow for changing length either. You can change length by click+drag the object or by clicking inside the Length box and drag the mouse vertically and I would say that it should be sufficient .. and you've got another space saved.
You can tell by now how i dislike small arrows

[silicon/silicium]

me? i love all undocked !!

same here in fact, I love midi popup editor, and was very satisfied with F3. but if the browser have to be docked, please, find a more handy way to work with it. now in its small vertical lane, it's almost useless (but needed as you can't insert vst, or samples with anything else). to me it has to have one directory panel, and one "folder tree" panel.

You can move parts already by click+drag and by Ctrl+arrows and to have third option to perform the same task is IMHO over the top. As to what a moving of tracks is concern, I would used same option, click+drag track header up and down or Ctrl+arrows.

totally agree

[djsubject]

me? i love all undocked !!

same here in fact, I love midi popup editor, and was very satisfied with F3. but if the browser have to be docked, please, find a more handy way to work with it. now in its small vertical lane, it's almost useless (but needed as you can't insert vst, or samples with anything else). to me it has to have one directory panel, and one "folder tree" panel.

+1

[lowkey]

Would it possible to have the information scalable? Trackton does this very well.

[soma]

me? i love all undocked !!

same here in fact, I love midi popup editor, and was very satisfied with F3. but if the browser have to be docked, please, find a more handy way to work with it. now in its small vertical lane, it's almost useless (but needed as you can't insert vst, or samples with anything else). to me it has to have one directory panel, and one "folder tree" panel.

+1

-1

[soma]

One thing I would like to see in the sequencer window is a small strip that is bascially a zoomed out view of the entire arangement. You could navigate here and set the loop points. If you are familiar with vegas, wave edit, After effects or Live, I know those have it. I assume many other programs do too.

[Guckli]

One thing I would like to see in the sequencer window is a small strip that is bascially a zoomed out view of the entire arangement. You could navigate here and set the loop points. If you are familiar with vegas, wave edit, After effects or Live, I know those have it. I assume many other programs do too.

+1. With tags (from the live arranger maybe) just above. Or superimposed maybe.

[M1]

i like the browser the way it is... you won't get lost if you organize your folders also if you ARE in a long list of samples then you can just grab the scrollbar on the right and zip right up. to me having to scroll is worth the trade-off of having to wait for a right click to load all my vsts, sometimes i was waiting like 20 seconds. but if you must change the brwoser here are a couple of ideas... 1.)you could split it horizontally. this way you could have one for plugins/projects/presets and one for samples. 2.)this is the better of the two ideas i think; when scrolling down if you have a folder open, the folder name would "stick" at the top of the list once it reaches the top, this way you could close it without ever having to worry about scrolling up. i must say that i see no problem with the current browser though. i also agree with whoever said that the space up top is ok for now... it leaves room for future growth, but maybe you could do fuction dock there if you want to fill it? it could be like customizing toolbars in word. this might be alot of work though, but you could also do an optional bitmap icon for functions... that would be alot of work for skinners especially but would be pretty cool. just a silly idea, though.

[M1]

One thing I would like to see in the sequencer window is a small strip that is bascially a zoomed out view of the entire arangement. You could navigate here and set the loop points. If you are familiar with vegas, wave edit, After effects or Live, I know those have it. I assume many other programs do too.

+1 i've used live and really like the zoomed out song nav bar thingy, it's very fast to work with