despite there having been a long thread about I think rendering by far is still not there yet.
- crtl+r now is the shortcut for rename and it seems there's no shortcut for rendering at all
- even if there would be a shortcut: why is 'render to new track' now seperated from the other rendering-command? To be frank this does not make the slightest sense to me. Now you would need two shortcuts instead which makes learning shortcuts more difficult. Als it helps cluttering the interface as I have already mentioned elsewhere.
- in 1.x there were the options 'render between locators' and 'render selected parts' now it's 'render all' instead os selected parts. This is really a major decrease in workflow. With 'render selected parts' it was so easy to quickly create any mixdown but now you need to start soloing or muting tracks.
- I always requested this for 1.x but it never came and In XT2 it's still missing: there's no way XT2 could possibly know, whether or not I need to go through the track's faders when rednering. This totally depends on the respective individual situation hence I really need to be able to control this. In v1 I had to often fiddle with the faders when rendering - please Jorgen, spare me this - an option is direly needed here.
- as I already mentioned it makes no sense to me that 'render to new track is now seperated. In 1.x there was a target-dropdown-menu - very nice, very logical, very user-friendly - as XT2 is going to be an improvement over 1.x I would have thought you'd expand on that, Jorgen. Logical to me would be the additional option 'render to existing track' and if you'd choose this then another dropdown menu would appear which lists all the existing audio-tracks.
So in short:
I think the rendering-function should be identical to 1.x apart from (at least) the following two new options:
- render through the fader(s) / do not render through the fader(s)
- redner to existing track
As it is now it's not an improvement over 1.x but clearly significantly worse instead.
Sorry, but it's the truth.
And to be even more honest I am a bit disappointed that it's initially left unfinished, then worked at again many moons later just to stay unfinished yet again. I think the single features need to be brought into a final shape in which they can stay for XT2 final without us having serious reason to complain anymore. That way the whole application is going to stay a permanent building site which imo needs to be avoided.
(I pity the poor soul who's attempting to write the manual for it
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