Suggestions for enhancements

[funguitar]

Hi all,

I just started using T so bare with me. I hardly know how to do anything yet. I did RTFM this time hoping to avoid some start up woes. Nice feel to this interface, very easy to environment to work in. javascript:emoticon('8)')
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There may already be good ways to do the following in T, if so please clue me in. If not, here's a few ideas (you might have these on your list already). I recorded myself playing guitar, then tried a few punch-ins to see how this works in T. So, these ideas are mostly around that activity.
- would like to be able to audition the sound I'm about to record before I start. Both aurally (I'd like to hear it) and visually (I'd like to see it in the same db meters it shows up in after I start recording. This dshould be triggered as soon as I arm the track for recording by plugging the source icon into the track.
- would like to be able to save lots more than 9 markers, huge amount more, why limit it?
- would like to be able to setup a punch-in and save it, just like a marker. And give it a name if I want, defaut name being the time.
- would like to be able to set a preroll amount (time or bars & beats) I saw this could sorta be done in the click setting. I'd prefer to have it with the punch-in. So when I save a punch-in the preroll setting for that punch is saved with it.
- same for track height & zoom setting, they should be included in the cluster of parameters I can opt to be saved with each punch. That way I just click on the punch (from a punch/marker list pulldown) and the workspace I was in at the time I set up that punch is restored.
- would like to hear the previously recorded sounds on the track I'm about to punch-in on until the cursor hits the punch-in time. Then hear the input while the punch is actually happening. Then hear the previously recorded sounds on the track again, from there forward.

I'd also like to be debt free, become a rich and famous musician... Surely T can do that for me - but that's a whole other post.
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funguitar

[haydxn]

if 'end to end' is enabled on the audio input device, you can hear what you will record. Click the 'END TO END' button in the bottom right hand corner of the screen, and click the audio input block (the one you connect to the track) and click the 'enable end to end' button on its properties.

you should get the dB meter for that input at all times when the input is selected also.




as for the other things, i know most of them are not present. but why a huge amount more markers??

[DaveMalham]

Hi all,
and especially Jules for writing such a nice piece of software. Having been involved from just about the earliest days of digital audio and having also been involved with writting parts of early DAW's (Composer's Desktop Project, Audio Design's SoundMaestro) I can guess how much sleep you haven't had recently.

So, what do I think would be an enhancement? Well, how about making Tracktion the first simple system to really handle surround system soundfiles properly? By which I mean, treat a 4, 5, 6, 10, 20 .... channel file just the same way you do a stereo one, ie, don't split it into separate tracks, put it all on one track and don't restrict the tracks to fixed configurations such as quad, 5.1, 6.1 7.1, 10.2 and so on, 'cos the range of different configurations is changing all the time. It's only if you are writing panners that you need to worry about the configuration of the track you are panning to. If you're just editing tracks together (and they are all of the same configuration) it shouldn't matter how many channels there in a track are so long as your computer has enough resources to process them all. Even if the tracks have different numbers of channels, by using the patch bay users can make up their own minds where things should go when tracks with lower numbers of channels are mixed into ones with higher numbers ... example; stereo into front left and right of a 5.1 mix. Anthing more sophisticated should be done with plugins.

Dave

[djsubject]

give me record audio wen set to loop & access to my asio outs so i can put fx on them then im happy as c u next tuesday

[djsubject]

p.s yes vally i do no i can use busses to do this