There are some very good suggestions here. If you don't mind, I'd like to comment.
Basstrup wrote:My wishlist, and I know some of this has been mentioned above.
UI:
Add track, even the new create track feature is great, I still would like to see a more stream lines UI for Add Track. Today if you hold down Option while in the Add Track dropdown, you can select multiple MIDI, mono and stereo tracks. If hold down option + shift you can also add multiple aux tracks. But no way you can make multiple master faders. I'd like to see the option to add multiple what ever when holding down the option key.
In the mixing board holding control while clicking on the track name you can change track color. In Track you need to hold down command. Same for the Sequence window, where you have to be very careful to click the first few pixels. Worst though is option + click in the Tracks window and the color scheme editor shows up. Personally I do never change the Color Scheme when working in a project, and I spend more time clicking away from the color scheme editor when trying to change track color in the Track window.
Both these suggestions are about consistency in the UI. I've often wished for the very same things, and I especially hate trying to remember which keys to press in which window to change the color, or to avoid the color editor, which should not be
so accessible in any window, except by deliberate key command.
It should not be difficult to do either of these. Just tighten up the interface commands between windows. It should be the same command, no matter which window you're in, and that probably can be applied to other things as well.
As for the adding of multiple tracks, again I agree with Basstrup: the option key should give you a multiple of ANYTHING in the menus.
Basstrup wrote:
New features:
Be able to have sets of markers and be able organize markers like layers in Photoshop.
Be able to turn sets of markers on and off. Be able to assign a color to specific set of markers
Add take selector in the Mixing Board. Add a dropdown over the input button
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Option for "100mm" faders in the Mixing Board
Being able to rename bus from other places than the bundles window. Like when you select bus in a send.
Hear! Hear! I totally agree! I've asked for this before, too.
And I love the idea of sets of markers. I'd like to be able to copy marker sets and store them in the clippings window for other projects. Often, my markers are simply the basic layout of a song. Intro, verse 1, verse 2, bridge, etc. Sometimes it doesn't make sense to copy them from one project to another, because the measure numbers differ slightly, but perhaps we could SHIFT marker sets to get them lined up.
Basstrup wrote:
Being able to move tracks to a specific tracks folder
Add a Show Tracks for side bar and add functionality to Load Board Layout. And add a
Select all unused tracks function.
I left the pictures in this because I think it's such a good idea. (not that the others were less good)
This would be very helpful.
Basstrup wrote:
Being able to find overlapping notes. I have noticed in some projects I receive there are overlapping MIDI notes, Almost duplicate but not exactly the same. One note might be one of a few ticks longer than the other. This creates an issue with running out of voices on some instruments, specially outboard MIDI synths. Also be able to find MIDI notes that extend beyond the beginning of the next note (same note) - seems this happen easily when editing that long note then will extend into the following note after editing.
This could EASILY be added to the Search Window. In fact, it may be there already. I haven't checked. But it should be an easy addition which would actually encourage people to explore and utilize this amazing feature. How many DAWs have a Search window? How many DAWs allow you to search for rhythms, notes, ranges, an dozens of other parameters? This is one of the reasons I love DP!
The rest of your suggestions are good. No problem with them. In fact, I've no problem with ANY of these suggestions, and I've wished for them more times than I can remember. MOTU, are you listening? These would not be hard to do. For most of them, they are probably 5 minute fixes in the code, providing it doesn't step on something else.
I love the idea of an overlapping notes search, but I also need to point out that there IS a feature to delete duplicate notes; it's not the same thing, so don't figure we already have what's being asked for here. Just to see all the overlapping notes in a track highlighted for fix or removal would be a relief to anyone who works in detailed MIDI.
Thanks for the great suggestions, Basstrup!
Shooshie