Taking loops out of the search panel

[aMUSEd]

I don't use loops and want to be able to use the search panel to find plugins and presets quickly but every time I open Tracktion I have to remove loops from the search dropdown first to get it to show a usable list of plugins not cluttered up by loops. So I would like Tracktion to be able to remember my option to remove loops from search. I preferred it when these were separate tbh. Plugins and presets go together but loops should be separate.

[dRowAudio]

If you don't use loops can you just clear your loop library by deleting the "LoopLibrary.xml" file from your settings directory?

Changing the order of libraries that are displayed in this list is something we may add soon which should also help the problem. At least then the audio files would appear at the bottom.

The other thing you could do is set up a macro to focus on the search panel and disable the loop library. E.g.

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Tracktion.showSidePanel ('search');
Tracktion.enableSearchLibrary ('loop', false);
Tracktion.enableSearchLibrary ('preset', true);
Tracktion.enableSearchLibrary ('plugin', true);
Tracktion.setSearchPanelText ('');

[aMUSEd]

Yeah I have done that but there's a difference between choosing not using loops and making it harder to use loops if I do ever want to use some. I do want the functionality there, I just don't want to have to deselect it from the drop down every time I open Tracktion. How would the macro help me, would it run automatically when I open Tracktion or would I have to activate it, which would be the same as deselecting it in this search box. Why can't it just retain my setting?

[dRowAudio]

Well you'd just assign the macro to a key command and use that when you want to search. That way you know it won't search loops whenever you use that macro. You don't have to think about if they're enabled or not.

But yes, I agree it would be nice if it remembered that setting. I'll add it to the list.

[aMUSEd]

tbh I really think the problem is that you merged the loops browser with the plugins/presets browser - they should really be separate things, putting them together just makes for a cluttered up browser and huge bloated tag cloud because it incorporates all the tags given to loops, most of which have no relation to the sort of tags I have given to my plugins and presets. If they were separate browsers I could also have loops in the left and plugins/presets on the right of my screen, which would be more efficient.