Tracktion 2 Wishlist 1.2

[Lunch Money]

It are exactly these 30 seconds or a few mouse-clicks, what are that disturbing. Following that argumentation, nobody would need a freeze function.
Freeze is cool and so are Channel-Presets like in Logic7.

I can see what you mean, but I don't think the argument 'follows' 100%. Maybe 80%. The difference I see is that once a rack is created, it's there for all your projects, whereas freeze is a function specific to individual tracks in individual projects.

But still-- even following your argument, you're pretty much correct, and there ARE plenty of Tracktioneers who do NOT use freeze, because they find the functionality of rendering to be more suited to their needs. I think the functionality of setting up a rack and then saving it to be more flexible and ultimately more useful than simply grouping effects, and the tradeoff in time justifies it. A more intelligent auto-wrap would be handy, though, for sure, and the end result would be exactly what you're looking for.

Greg

[jtxx000]

I think the functionality of setting up a rack and then saving it to be more flexible and ultimately more useful than simply grouping effects, and the tradeoff in time justifies it. A more intelligent auto-wrap would be handy, though, for sure, and the end result would be exactly what you're looking for.

Greg

Not quite. If you group effects then you could save the chain as a preset, and it's more flexible because you can change the order of the plugs without disconnecting and reconnecting.

[aldi]

my wish for t2 : that its been released

[Lunch Money]

I think the functionality of setting up a rack and then saving it to be more flexible and ultimately more useful than simply grouping effects, and the tradeoff in time justifies it. A more intelligent auto-wrap would be handy, though, for sure, and the end result would be exactly what you're looking for.

Greg

Not quite. If you group effects then you could save the chain as a preset, and it's more flexible because you can change the order of the plugs without disconnecting and reconnecting.

Point! You have a point there!

However, if the intelligence of the wrapping is improved (ie. I'm just talking pipe dream, but so is grouped effects) then it will be EXACTLY what you're looking for, except wrapped in a rack. Then, the people who want to mangle the signal paths a bit still have the option, unlike grouped effects.

Greg

[jtxx000]

Well if there was grouped effects, then there probably would be an option to transfer to a rack. I'm not at all saying that there shouldn't be a way too wrap multiple filters in a rack, I'm saying that for simple chains having groups would be more effective than wraping them in racks.

[Lunch Money]

6 of 1, half-dozen of the other. At the end of the day, I guess what I'm saying is that I can see why grouped FX would be a useful function, and the only thing I would like to see is that groups are just auto-wrapped in a rack instead of as a new type of element.

Greg

[120mg]

Non-destructive reverse for audio clips!
Better strech algorithm.
Scale, as in Sonar:
- Scale note lengths, velocity, aftertouch etc. in relative % or fixed value.

[lshea]

My wish is that mutes and solos could be automated.

[bongo_x]

Better file management. At least a "save as self contained" sort of thing like Live. I'm really tired of trying to account for all the audio in a track. I know I could make an archive (which is cool), but I just want all the stuff that goes with a track to be in the folder with the track, all the time. Yes, even though it would mean multiple copies of audio files. No, I don't care about the space. Is there something to do with archiving that already does this that I missed?

And speaking of file management, I want to be able to name the audio from within T. This doesn't work on the Mac at least as far as I can figure out. There's an option that says "renaming the clip renames the source item" but that doesn't seem to happen. I'm talking about the actual audio file on the hard drive when I look in that folder. They're all just named some crazy T naming scheme and I have to quit T (cause I can't just close the session like other mac programs, ugh) to rename the audio and then point to it again in the session. If I've rendered a piece several times different ways I would like to be able to just look at the audio files and know which one was which. And dates on the edits please.

Hide / disable tracks a la Pro Tools. If I'm working on a track with a lot of stuff going on I usually just render it, I really never use the freeze. But I would like to save that track in case I want to go back and re-render later. I can mute it and make it small, but I have to make sure I don't unmute it and it's still taking up screen space. I can't then unmute all tracks or make all tracks the same height because the one I don't want to hear (or see) will pop up. So disable turns the track off and hide puts it away somewhere.

I would love to see the different sections of the screen (filters, transport, menus, etc) have a button to open/close them as in Live. This is so great for maximizing the workable screen space. Very important on a 12" iBook!

Better song ideas. If T could come up with some really good songs for me that would be great. Make them sound nice too.

That's all I got right now. Yeah I 've said the same things before. I just didn't want anyone to forget.

Billy

[Mr. Tingle]

more colour palettes for clips. bright palattes, golden palettes, grey palettes and a white please.

oh, and the ability to colour the track background, so we can allocate colours for the different uses that tracks have ie. audio/midi, group tracks, automisation tracks, master effect tracks, old rendered tracks, aux tracks etc........

[jtxx000]

Here's an interesting idea: inner edits. Lets say you want to take a track with midi and render it to audio. You could use render track, but then you can't go back and change the original. You could freeze the track, but the more tracks you freeze the longer it takes to freeze and you can't manipulate the audio. Another option is to create a new edit, put the track in it, and then render it from there and stick it in the edit you were working on. This is the most flexible, but it also takes the most time. What if there was an option to wrap a track in an edit? For example, lets say you have a track with midi giong into a softsynth. You wrap the track in an edit, and it renders the track and gives you the audio. However, it gives you the option to jump in, which brings you to an edit with only the original track in it. You can change this around and when you jump out it renders the edit and brings you back to the main edit.

[Sleepwalker]

this feels like throwing a coin in the sea for good luck!

Here we go:

Better midi editing.

.....aaand if I deer ask santaclause: Multi channel drum edit mode.

f-f-f.....f-f-folder ttt-tracks!

...thats all I need, and will be very happy for

[Samosa]

My wish is that mutes and solos could be automated.

amen to that.

and tying automation to clips so they can be moved forwards / backwards without having to redo all automation. could get complicated.

[lshea]

Groundhoggers...

Expanding on the automated mute/solo theme, I remember some cheap old loop playing software that enabled you to punch in/out of loops by using your PC keyboard. You'd either press and hold down to mute/unmute and latch this by pressing the space bar.

Being able to busk loops like this is IMHO a splendid thing. Presumably CPU is freed up whilst tracks are muted unlike when one uses volume automation.

Lol

[jtxx000]

I just had another interesting idea... How about being able to group clips together? For example, lets say you split a drum loop into pieces and rearrange them. Then you could group the pieces together to form a clip again.