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[Phoebe Records]

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'

motty

Yes! This drives me bananas. And it is a BUG that should be fixed, not a new feature to be pursued.

Another BUG would be...can we please use Waves plugins? Please? Thank god for Ctrl-D, otherwise the plugs would be completely unusable instead of just terribly annoying. Figure this thing out and FIX IT! You can't ignore Waves, Mackie!

Oh yeah, and STOP DROPPING NOTES in Akoustik Piano!!!

Now that that's out of the way....



Wish List:

1. A way to combine the "Folder Track" concept with actual audio bussing. In other words, I would like to be able to set up folder tracks that are actual summed audio busses of the tracks they contain. Yes, yes, I know--there's the VCA's. But I want a REAL buss that I can EQ, compress, etc. Which I can get, but it would have to be INSIDE the folder track, and I wouldn't have access to it if the folder was collapsed. I would like the option of clean, compact busses (drums, for example) that are "workable" when collapsed.

2. Allow a momentary 'input lock' for plugins that will only route keyboard input to the plugin and not to Tracktion. This would be HUGELY helpful for (among other things) renaming presets, 'esc'-ing out of input boxes, and scrolling through presets with arrow keys. If that couldn't be worked out, then at LEAST allowing the 'esc' key to be remapped--which should be a non-issue, considering that it's redundant.

3. DRAG TO SELECT! Please. Forcing the In and Out markers to do double or triple duty in Tracktion is a pain, AND it limits their useability.


Those are the big things I can think of.

I sure hope they don't drop the ball with this program. I hope that T will live a long, healthy life, but if the above bugs (especially the Waves thing) don't get fixed soon, I will have to move on, lest my sanity slip.

--Dave

[motty]

another feature I would like is to had a grid overlay that I can turn on and off. I'm editing some bass audio at the moment and I have the standard vertical grid lines at the beginning of every bar.

This is good, but I could do with be able to enable vertical grids line at say 1/4 notes, 1/8 notes and maybe even 1/16 notes as I go through the edit looking for any early or late bass notes...

[metamorphosis]

The only things I would ask are to revert the midi draw tool to it's T1 functionality (much better, and the t2/t3 functionality could be accessable via alt or similar), and to enable selection via drag/draw selection-boxes.

Oh, and bring back the arrow-box selection method for inputs. It's far less cluttered and much more intuitive than the alternative method, although the alternative has an occasional use.
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[artlowell]

another feature I would like is to had a grid overlay that I can turn on and off. I'm editing some bass audio at the moment and I have the standard vertical grid lines at the beginning of every bar.

Good idea! I assume that you're talking about a temporary grid that you customize for your own purposes. It gets pretty tedious counting lines to figure out a rhythm. I've gotten in the habit of creating a visual MIDI "click track" clip that I can put on temporary tracks where I need them. Not a very convenient solution.

[motty]

I assume that you're talking about a temporary grid that you customize for your own purposes.

yes, you would be able to turn it on or off and set the frequency of the grid...

[grozbat]

Some kind of easy-to-use temporary rendering to save CPU cycles, like Cubase's freeze/unfreeze function, would be great.

I'm a developer myself, so I know that the Tracktion developers would just LOVE to get their teeth into new features. But I wonder if there are any developers left working on Tracktion. Mackie seems to have pulled the plug on Tracktion development.

[pough]

Some kind of easy-to-use temporary rendering to save CPU cycles, like Cubase's freeze/unfreeze function, would be great.

You mean like Tracktion's freeze/unfreeze function? The one it's had for years? Now I'm trying to remember which host had the first freeze function. I don't recall if Tracktion had it before Cubase, but it wouldn't surprise me.

[skipkent]

1. Multiple take/comping management feature that doesn't rely on loop recording only. I haven't used Logic 8, but the way they describe theirs sounds great.

2. Ability to put effects on folder tracks.

3. Export audio to multiple tracks (maybe we can already do this, not sure).

4. Session view. (Kidding!)

[grozbat]

Some kind of easy-to-use temporary rendering to save CPU cycles, like Cubase's freeze/unfreeze function, would be great.

You mean like Tracktion's freeze/unfreeze function? The one it's had for years? Now I'm trying to remember which host had the first freeze function. I don't recall if Tracktion had it before Cubase, but it wouldn't surprise me.

I would like a Freeze that doesn't freeze the volume control!

I want to be able to mix tracks when they're frozen!

In fact, ideally I would like to have a "FREEZE FILTER" function. Click on a filter, freeze it, and it freezes everything on the track up to and including that filter. Then you could freeze your CPU-draining synth and leave, say, Reverb and Volume/Pan unfrozen for the final mix.

It's possible to do it with the render function of course, and in fact I do that on all my projects. But you have to split the track into two and render the first half. You end up with twice as many tracks, and it's extra work, and I would love to have it built-in as a simple menu click.

[motty]

I would like a Freeze that doesn't freeze the volume control!

+1 great idea!

[solomute]

When overlay recording mode is selected and i do recording already existing clips are muted. That is not convenient because i need to hear already recorded sound. For example i want to add just several notes using overlay recording. That makes overlay mode not convenient. Using another non-overlay mode is impossible because new recordings are not in time due to latency and in this case you cannot easily select the newly recorded notes as you could do in the overlay clip.