FMiguelez wrote:Shooshie wrote:
I've been begging for a solution to the controllers/notes conundrum for many, many years.
Me too...
Maybe not years, but for a while now.
I still find it ridiculously clumsy to,
instead of being able to temporarily "mute" a MIDI CC (a VSL parameter, for instance) quickly in the Automation Setup window, I have to
duplicate the track, look for the CC I want to mute, delete it, and listen... and then delete the extra track... By the time I do all that, I forget what I wanted to do in the first place! I mean, isn't that a real hassle? Doing it one or two times is fine. But try doing it hundreds of times and, well... it's simply idiotic.
That IS a lot of trouble. While I 100% agree that MOTU needs to do something to make this easier, it's much simpler to double-click one event of the data type you want to mute, then delete. Double-clicking, of course, selects all data of that type. Delete, listen, then hit UNDO to bring it back.
Not the same as "MUTE" or "SOLO," but it's a lot easier than creating and deleting tracks. I do use scratch tracks for this kind of thing, but not for muting. I just delete the data type to remove it and undo when I'm done.
I may be imaging things, but it seems like back in the early 1990s there was a Play Filter. Like the View Filter, it allowed you to types of data and remove them, but unlike the View Filter, it muted the data you deselected in the filter window, but didn't necessarily remove it from sight. I may just have remembered that wrong, but I've thought about it for the past 15 years or so! I've wondered if they removed such a useful feature, or if I just imagined that it used to be there!!! Whatever the case, it's not there now.
Even that would not be as useful as a MIDI mute.
But I have a solution that would work very well for a lot of our problems. If MOTU would add a function to the MIDI Edit Window, we could paste what and where we want, copy to where we want, and mute what we want, all easily done. Look at the picture below. See the track selector? Imagine that by selecting notes, holding down a key and moving the track selector you could move or (adding the option key) copy those notes to another track, or hold down another key and move them to "mute" track. MOTU could go a step further and let us have a MUTE command, which would essentially move the notes to the mute track without actually moving them from view. It would turn them gray, and it would remember which track they came from by virtue of some marker appended to each note's information.
And also, that marker would be visible at the top of the window when we click on a note: its track name would be visible so that we know exactly what track every note is from. Color coding is good, but with limited numbers of colors, and some too faint or dark to be usable, we need track names to be visible with all the other event information.
So, imagine below that I'm going to move the selected Violin note to the Viola. Just hold down a key (let's say V) and drag the "pencil" tool to Viola. "OPTION-V-DRAG the pencil" would copy rather than move it. Or just hit M to mute, OPTION-M to unmute. And imagine that up above, you'd see "VIOLIN" somewhere to tell you that the selected note is in the Violin track.
This is what I've been asking MOTU to do for a long time. I'd appreciate it if anyone who agrees with me would write MOTU (or mention it next time you talk to them) and ask them to take seriously Shooshie's suggestion for the MIDI Graphic Edit Window. It's been put in their suggestion box, it's been sent via tech support ticket, and I've presented it to tech support people over the phone.
This is basic functionality here! It needs to be done, and it needs to be simple. This is simple. Doesn't even require copying and pasting. Just select, then hold a key and move the pencil.
Sorry to sound so fanatical about it, but I'm getting old while waiting for some basic functionality in the Edit window!!! Let's get this done while we are still active users! I've been using this app for about 27 years!!!
Shooshie
