4.6.1 wishlist

[boonier]

lest not forget the Aggrevated Device scary bug

or the popping /clicking audio when using multiple devices in the Hardware setup

[pcm]

like in protools, a way to keep a plugin at the forefront of the windows. Opening a compressor, then making an edit, then trying to find that compressor window again is annoying.
I could just get another monitor though....

I agree. And, like PT, let's have ONE plugin window open at a time. I remember in version 3.x, you have the option to have many open, or just one. With many, DP would slow down. I don't see why that would be any different now. In PT, if you want more than one open, you just hold down the shift key while opening another plugin. I think this is a better design choice than the current one.

[RCcola]

Punt the audio monitor and let's use the meters in the mixer, even when in direct HW play through.... too many windows.....

Second! At least as an option.

[jstjohn]

A "Hide Tracks" command would be nice.

This is available in Pro tools and is great for cleaning up the tracks window when concentrating on only a few tracks.

John

[sdfalk]

If your talking about the sequencer window, you can hide tracks.
All you need to do is click on the "expand" button near the top
left hand corner of the sequence window near the camera button.
You'll get a running list of all your active tracks which you can
"select to show" or "de-select" to hide.

[jstjohn]

No, I was talking about the "tracks" window - you cannot hide tracks.

You can in the sequence window, just as you say, and do it in other windows too. But nowhere is there a command to do this in the tracks window as you can in PT.

John

[pcm]

little pan/volume faders in the sequence overview on the left. no need to go to the mixer then.

You mean like Pro Tools?

Seriously, that would be a move in the right direction.

[pcm]

I would like to see a SOLO button in any and all plugin windows. In a real studio envirionment, engineers frequenly solo tracks when tweaking eq and/or outboard stuff. How much easier would that be if the solo button was right where you were tweaking?

[sdfalk]

I would like to see a SOLO button in any and all plugin windows. In a real studio envirionment, engineers frequenly solo tracks when tweaking eq and/or outboard stuff. How much easier would that be if the solo button was right where you were tweaking?

Absolutely.

As for the little mini faders/pan stuff, sure.
As long as it doesn't become as cluttered as Sonar.
I had the absolute displeasure of working in that environment
not to long ago, and there was so much crap cluttering the interface,
I had a headache after 20 minutes.
Powerful, flexible app, but just an awful GUI.
Obviously many people like it, I just hope DP never goes
that road

[boonier]

1. MIDI displayed as blocks like soundbites

when in the Sequence editor it would be nice to be able to display the phrases also. This could be selected in the popup menu (the little arrow next to the record icon in the track name bar.)

This would be mega useful.

2. A small possibily irrelevant request, make the Play icon the same colour as in the tracks list (currently blue) or vice-versa....I've noticed little indescrepancies (chek spelling) between various windows with things like, for example, in the waveform editor the List / Info / Edit buttons look like they belong to a different app.

dont get me wrong i thiink the UI is wicked and i guess there are far more pressing issues at hand for the developers!

It would be just be nice to do an audit and just have an interface designer tighten things up to unify it a bit more and make this kick arse app even more kick arse...if i come up with any mmore really useful recommendations i'll post em here

[briangorrell]

Please add drum notation as an option in the Quickscribe. This would save me much time jumping into Finale - etc...

Thanks,
Brian G

[WSVP]

1. Would like to see a chromatic instrument tuner plugin.

2. Also switchable track level input monitoring of record enabled tracks. This was very common in almost all tape based multitrack recorders. Allows for sound-check or rehearsal with already recorded tracks without recording the rehearsal or using an aux track.

3. Improved waveform editor, particularly we could use a cursor in the wave editor. Also would be nice to put markers into individual soundbites which would be visible in the sequence editor, this capability already exhists in the SDII format. They currently only allow one sync-point.

Overall MOTU seems to be very good at reading my mind, seems like every time I am thinking about an improvement in DP it shows up in the next update, in addition they are often free. This has been the case since 1987 when I started with Performer 2.3.

WSVP

[dbwohl]

Happy New Year, everyone. I'm new to the board.

It would be nice to be able to quantize markers, both on the input (Input Quantize) and post-input. Very useful for groove oriented beds.

dbwohl

[dbwohl]

And....be able to view controller data (e.g. sustain pedal 64) in the Quickscribe window...Unless someone already knows how that might be done. If so, I'd like to hear it. Thanks.

dbwohl

[jantoman]

And....be able to view controller data (e.g. sustain pedal 64) in the Quickscribe window...Unless someone already knows how that might be done. If so, I'd like to hear it.

Yes, it would be quite useful for pianists. I looked through the manual and the upgrade PDFs but I didn't find nothing about it. I'd bet there are more guitarists than pianists in MOTU development' staff...