FR - Arranging in Tracktion?

[glurgle]

Personally I don't know that I'd use it. Though the idea of dragging out tails from the existing markers is genius.

I'd probably use it to knock up quick arrangements, export them and then track it over. What would be really cool is some way to 'apply' the sequence so that tracktion lays out a bunch of copies of all the clips in the correct order. then it just makes that whole sequence the new section '0' and you can add more. That would make laying out a song extremely fast.

[clueless]

"create new edit of sequence"

[Rock]

This feature would actually come in quite handy in what I am doing right now... all the verses are too long I would love a way to quickly experiments with various trims.

[clueless]

Jules? Have you read this? Perhaps Rock should send him a polite email?

Wouldn't he listen to me?

[clueless]

This feature would actually come in quite handy in what I am doing right now... all the verses are too long I would love a way to quickly experiments with various trims.

I'd also use it for roughing out song structures, and then replacing the raw building blocks (verse, chorus etc)with more developed variations (verse 1, verse 2, etc) as work progressed.

You could also use it as a sort of linear version of folder tracks. Pity automation data doesn't copy/paste with clip data yet...

[Rock]

I think this is becoming pretty clear in my head. Markers would work as they now do. When the marker is set the tail would be at the same location as the marker . The user could then drag the tail to create a section which could be selected and named as mentioned before.

Jules?

[Rock]

Sorry to bump a thread, but I hate to let it die without hearing from Jules.

[optilude]

I agree, Jules should definitely have a look at this.

[Mr. Tingle]

Easier handling of large track count projects (by what ever means) would be most welcome.

[gizmo]

I like this whole thread a lot and it seems very Tracktion. It's a great idea and great ideas don't die even if it sometimes takes a while for them to sprout.

[prupert]

Great idea this, I like it a lot. I dunno if anyone has mentioned it, but if it was possible to assign the sections, or whatever you are calling them (you know, the things with tails) to a MIDI keyboard or a normal PC/Mac keyboard, so they could be triggered like Live, that would be super cool. Allowing you to build up a song in real-time.

I know that is completely copying from Live though, so if it was implemented without this feature, it would still be cool.

A T 2.5 feature maybe, roll on the day..

[Rock]

Would the midi trigger the start or would it place them in a queue to be played?

[pHz]

if it follows the live paradigm (there - i said it) then surely it places them in a queue to be triggered at the next available 'loop' start point ???

slainte rob

[Rock]

It wouldn't be impossible to have both with different midi triggers.

[haydxn]

this has made me think about when i started using Tracktion.

i played with the demo and thought "oh this is cool", then i started experimenting, and i kept getting these weird "buggering christ that's amazing" discoveries that made me want to buy it.

When i discovered the way looping works, and how you can drag the white marker to automatically repeat a small piece audio clip for making stuttery effects, something which has normally taken me hours of painstaking handslice editing...

and when i discovered about putting filters on clips...

and exporting as an archive for collaborative work...

_this_ would be one of those features. i'd love T to be able to do something like this, just as a handy "wow/timesaver/inspiration" tool.