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[Gabriel_S]

Back in ancient times, I used to use a sequencer called MusicShop. It had a very handy feature called "scrub". Say you have a dense cluster of MIDI notes and you can hear that there's a wrong note in there. "Scrub" allows you to hold down a control key and slowly "scrub" the cursor back and forth across the cluster until you find the offending note. I want this feature.

Totally agree. I think Traction may be one of the only hosts with a very few exceptions that doesn't offer this feature. I know that Sonar, Cubase, Logic, Pro tools etc all have it. I just started dabbling in Ableton Live and haven't really looked for it. Maybe it's time I took a look

[hwhalen]

Editlists

If anyone here has used Pro Tools you know how powerful they can be.

[artlowell]

I'm adding these items as they come up.

I want a way to anchor the position of an edit in an edit widow when I am zooming in and out horizotally.

For instance, I am currently working on a particular two bar phrase and attempting to find a time signature change that will give me dividers for a triplet rhythm at the 16th note level. When I zoom in, the part of the edit that I am focusing on drifts off the screen to the right or to the left. It is then a nuisance to find it and bring it back into the center of the edit window.

I'm not sure that I described this in a coherent way.

[MelodyMan]

I'm adding these items as they come up.

I want a way to anchor the position of an edit in an edit widow when I am zooming in and out horizotally.

For instance, I am currently working on a particular two bar phrase and attempting to find a time signature change that will give me dividers for a triplet rhythm at the 16th note level. When I zoom in, the part of the edit that I am focusing on drifts off the screen to the right or to the left. It is then a nuisance to find it and bring it back into the center of the edit window.

I'm not sure that I described this in a coherent way.

I get that and +1.

[Bosqoue!]

Double clicking a clip zooms in on it vertically and horizontally and centers at the same time. As it is now you always have to do a bit of scrolling and zooming when you wish to edit a clip.

[pough]

1. Mute and solo within folders that works properly.

2. Importing MIDI clips doesn't alter tempo.

3. Different views of MIDI, notably an event list.

4. Editing MIDI clips doesn't default to the write tool.

[chico.co.uk]

Back in ancient times, I used to use a sequencer called MusicShop. It had a very handy feature called "scrub". Say you have a dense cluster of MIDI notes and you can hear that there's a wrong note in there. "Scrub" allows you to hold down a control key and slowly "scrub" the cursor back and forth across the cluster until you find the offending note. I want this feature.

Totally agree. I think Traction may be one of the only hosts with a very few exceptions that doesn't offer this feature. I know that Sonar, Cubase, Logic, Pro tools etc all have it. I just started dabbling in Ableton Live and haven't really looked for it. Maybe it's time I took a look

If you get the time to take a look at Tracktion you'll realise it has this feature.

Under the options menu tick "audible trimming".
Double click inside a track to set the playhead location, scrub left and right.

[artlowell]

Under the options menu tick "audible trimming".
Double click inside a track to set the playhead location, scrub left and right.

Tried that. It looked like it ought to work, but I got no sound.

Double clicking a clip zooms in on it vertically and horizontally and centers at the same time. As it is now you always have to do a bit of scrolling and zooming when you wish to edit a clip.

Actually, I figured out that, if you use a "i" or "o" key to place a marker bar at the position that I want to anchor, I can find that position instantly by using the appropriate bracket key.

[chico.co.uk]

Under the options menu tick "audible trimming".
Double click inside a track to set the playhead location, scrub left and right.

Tried that. It looked like it ought to work, but I got no sound.

Works on my 3 machines. And the manual says that's what it's for - "this can be useful for the purposes of scrubbing" (manuals are great aren't they? Especially if you're wondering whether your sequencer has a scrubbing feature or not. Because you can do a search for "scrubbing" and you either get a hit or you don't)

Have you checked you're not deaf? I mean, no offence if you are, some of my best friends are deaf (actually, that's not true, none of my best friends are deaf, but one of the women in my work canteen is a bit deaf and always misses me telling her not to butter my toast, but i don't hold that against her, so i guess that proves i'm not deafist) but if you're deaf that might explain why you can't hear it

apart from that i'm all out of ideas. You can come and use my machines if you want. But not if you're deaf. Because it would be a bit pointless. Not because i've something against deaf people touching my machines. No.

[artlowell]

Chico,

After recovering from my spastically uncontrollable laugh-riot reaction to your hysterically funny sarcasm, I did look up "audible trimming" in the manual (who knew what "audible trimming" was supposed to mean?). The entry is:

"When this option is enabled, trimming operations on audio clips will be audible.
This can be useful for the purposes of scrubbing."

The operable word here is "AUDIO". I'm not interested in scrubbing passages in "AUDIO" clips. I do very little work with "AUDIO" clips. What I want to be able to scrub is a "MIDI" clip, not an "AUDIO" clip. Unless I have overlooked an entry in the manual relevant to "MIDI" scrubbing, Tracktion does not seem to have this feature and I want it.

I am relieved to learn that I am not, after all, hearing impaired. Perhaps my problem is that I am humor-impaired. I have friends who are somewhat humor-impaired, but they still manage to lead productive lives. It is those who are diplomacy-impaired who seem to have problems in their lives.

[chico.co.uk]

In which case I beg your pardon fine sir, as it seems I cannot read. I just search manuals for the word "scrub". If we polled our strengths we could rule the world.

[artlowell]

No hard feelings. Actually, it was kinda fun.

[t3]

No hard feelings. Actually, it was kinda fun.

yeah, it was. sure for all lurkers of this thread too. thank you sirs - both - for the entertainment...

[motty]

I'd like:

1. a way of inserting silence/empty bars into a mix that that also adds space/bars into the marker and global tracks as well as the main tracks.

2. an easy way of grouping tracks together to mix their levels with one slider. e.g. for when I'm happy with drums and bass, guitar mix and want to lower their volume keeping the mix the same. Maybe this could be done by adding a 'groups' function to the 'volume and pan filter'...

3. to be able to select one or more audio clips on a track and merge them together to become one new clip without having to render the track. I know I can render the track but I'd like merge audio clips like I can merge midi clips.

4. when merging midi clips, automatically 'delete content --> delete notes beyond start and end of clip' for each clip so that they merged correctly. (maybe this is a bug fix rather than a new feature'

To the powers at be: Tracktion is awesome software - please don't let it die!!!

motty

[Gabriel_S]

I'd like:

2. an easy way of grouping tracks together to mix their levels with one slider. e.g. for when I'm happy with drums and bass, guitar mix and want to lower their volume keeping the mix the same. Maybe this could be done by adding a 'groups' function to the 'volume and pan filter'...

motty

Hey motty, You can do this pretty simple like by simply clicking on the tracks you want to group, Right Click on the tracks and choose "Create Folder Track Containing"

You will instantly see a master volume track immediately above your chosen tracks

Gabriel