DP 8.1 Wishlist
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- Prime Mover
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Re: DP 8.1 Wishlist
All our customizable wishes really get me thinking about InDesign, which I'm currently working with now. InDesign is a gargantuan object-oriented beast, almost to a laughable degree, totally different animal from anything I've seen in a DAW. But what if some of that cascading style philosophy rubbed off on the DAW world?
Track is of this genre and tempo, on this album, from this band, each of which have their own cascading sets of preferences and presets, so that by the time you're actually working (InDesign jobs are famous for being about 3/4 setup time), you're practically done!
Maybe a bit extreme, but I always find myself mezmorized when working under cascading style development software, and thinking about what small ways those operations could be carried over to other software environments.
Track is of this genre and tempo, on this album, from this band, each of which have their own cascading sets of preferences and presets, so that by the time you're actually working (InDesign jobs are famous for being about 3/4 setup time), you're practically done!
Maybe a bit extreme, but I always find myself mezmorized when working under cascading style development software, and thinking about what small ways those operations could be carried over to other software environments.
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Re: DP 8.1 Wishlist
Hoping for these new features :
- Paste at original position (like Logic)
- commands to get me directly to a certain CC
- Options for window following other windows
- Paste at original position (like Logic)
- commands to get me directly to a certain CC
- Options for window following other windows
- dave pine
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Re: DP 8.1 Wishlist
channel turns blue when the track is frozen in mixing board
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Re: DP 8.1 Wishlist
I get a little worried when I see a 13 page thread. This will probably get lost and never seen, but here's my two cents:
1 - how can that weird board layout bug that got introduced in DP 6 still be around??? When ever you add a new track to your sequence, it adds it to all of your saved mixing board layouts. What the heck is the point of saving a board layout if DP doesn't recall the correct layout? grrr
2 - please add a key command for Duplicate Take. I mean, there's one for every other take command.
(sorry.... i had a lot of espresso this morning)
1 - how can that weird board layout bug that got introduced in DP 6 still be around??? When ever you add a new track to your sequence, it adds it to all of your saved mixing board layouts. What the heck is the point of saving a board layout if DP doesn't recall the correct layout? grrr
2 - please add a key command for Duplicate Take. I mean, there's one for every other take command.

(sorry.... i had a lot of espresso this morning)
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- MIDI Life Crisis
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Re: DP 8.1 Wishlist
I agree. Long threads are something that my cat used to like to play with but always got trashed in the end, literally and figuratively.
Maybe individual requests per topic are a better idea as we could both gauge interest by responses and kick ideas around in a more focused way that would actually help programmers to understand what more people were interested in seeing in a feature?
You heard it here first! I'm actually suggesting more focused threads. LOL.
Maybe individual requests per topic are a better idea as we could both gauge interest by responses and kick ideas around in a more focused way that would actually help programmers to understand what more people were interested in seeing in a feature?
You heard it here first! I'm actually suggesting more focused threads. LOL.
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Re: DP 8.1 Wishlist
You (and your cat) have inspired me to make a new post MLC.
MIDI Life Crisis wrote:I agree. Long threads are something that my cat used to like to play with but always got trashed in the end, literally and figuratively.
Maybe individual requests per topic are a better idea as we could both gauge interest by responses and kick ideas around in a more focused way that would actually help programmers to understand what more people were interested in seeing in a feature?
You heard it here first! I'm actually suggesting more focused threads. LOL.
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Oh dear. No racy Picts except in PMs.
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- daniel.sneed
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Re: DP 8.1 Wishlist
My first and very old wish: *buffer setting display in control panel!!!*
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- FMiguelez
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Re: DP 8.1 Wishlist
1.- You can do this if you keep (or recall) the selection before pastingjamwerks wrote:Hoping for these new features :
- Paste at original position (like Logic)
- commands to get me directly to a certain CC
- Options for window following other windows
2.- you can do that with QuicKeys
3.- You can do this already (see Preferenes)
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- MIDI Life Crisis
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Re: DP 8.1 Wishlist
Oh man, I gotta buy a third party app (Quickeys) to do specialized stuff? What a ripoff... 

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Re: DP 8.1 Wishlist
Maybe jamwerks is referring to placing a sound bite at the original recorded position? This is covered on page 354 under Original or Use Time Stamp.FMiguelez wrote:jamwerks wrote:Hoping for these new features :
- Paste at original position (like Logic)
1.- You can do this if you keep (or recall) the selection before pasting
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- dave pine
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Re: DP 8.1 Wishlist
it would be nice to be able to set a default crossfade type.
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- dave pine
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Re: DP 8.1 Wishlist
and, when i click on a soundbite in the tracks window, every other window ( mixer, seq editor, etc. ) should scroll to that track if i want it to. and in the mixer window there should be a way to highlight that track so you know exactly which channel it is, at a quick glance.
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Re: DP 8.1 Wishlist
a "less notes" default plugin for all Double Kick Pedal bass drum tracks.


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- toodamnhip
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Re: DP 8.1 Wishlist
+1dave pine wrote:it would be nice to be able to set a default crossfade type.
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