COLOR: This is how I wish we could make DP's mixer look...

[philbrown]

I like the last suggestion a lot. Having that sort of ghosted color right thru the track would make it much easier to work with - but if they do that, I would hope that they would give you some control over saturation. If you could either dial up/down how much color was showing, or have a couple of options (light/medium/heavy) to chose from, it would make it more practical for people working in different lighting conditions, etc.

Overall, +1.

Agree 100%. Really like the last one, FM. Great idea.

[stubbsonic]

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[Radiogal]

My smallest ever wish list:

1) Colored mixing channels á la ProTools

2) Info/notation fields under each mixing board channel á la ProTools and Logic Pro.

[jlaudon]

I'd think these are pretty simple things to implement?

[TinenTech]

I have to use both DP and PT in my work, and the colors in the Edit and Mix windows of PT can be very handy on large sessions. I agree.

Note also that the colors follow groups: the drum group will be one, vocal group another, etc.

[bongo_x]

Note also that the colors follow groups: the drum group will be one, vocal group another, etc.

That’s how I use it, but you can set it up for different things.

[csiaudio]

+1

[SixStringGeek]

Yes please. Love that.

[waterstrum]

+1

[lito]

My smallest ever wish list:

1) Colored mixing channels á la ProTools

2) Info/notation fields under each mixing board channel á la ProTools and Logic Pro.

and in the Sequence Editor an automatically numeration when I change the place between the Takes

[HCMarkus]

+1 to the color extending thru mixer track strips

[Killahurts]

Yep, +1 more.

The whole mixer needs a revamp, but the color thing would help a lot in my setup!

[wonder]

this might not be on anyone else's wish list...

but many times I'm arranging around a song AFTER multiple takes on multiple tracks ... i.e. adding 4 bars here, removing 2 bars there...

allowing ALL the takes to be moved along with the active take would be KILLER! that way, i don't have to manually move 7 vocal takes and 4 drum takes.

[FMiguelez]

this might not be on anyone else's wish list...

but many times I'm arranging around a song AFTER multiple takes on multiple tracks ... i.e. adding 4 bars here, removing 2 bars there...

allowing ALL the takes to be moved along with the active take would be KILLER! that way, i don't have to manually move 7 vocal takes and 4 drum takes.

I agree.

In this sense, DP7 (or was it DP6?) was better. We could make time range selections to include or exclude what was inside folders, depending on a preference, IIRC.

Having an option to include the MIDI and audio takes in time range selections would be a KILLER feature!
Who needs exploding every track when this could be automatically done with a simple preference? I always forget to explode the takes when moving things around, and by the time I remember it's already too late...

[Shooshie]

I agree.

In this sense, DP7 (or was it DP6?) was better. We could make time range selections to include or exclude what was inside folders, depending on a preference, IIRC.

Having an option to include the MIDI and audio takes in time range selections would be a KILLER feature!
Who needs exploding every track when this could be automatically done with a simple preference? I always forget to explode the takes when moving things around, and by the time I remember it's already too late...

I'm a little shocked that a time-range selection in the Tracks Overview window does not get all the takes. It leaves what appears to be an empty track when you move the time-range contents to another track. In reality, it may be full of invisible non-active takes. It should be optional to move all takes together no matter which window you're in, but the Tracks Overview? Of all windows, this should be possible there.

If there is some reason why MOTU made it that way, then there should also be a preference "Takes stay together."

I'm really, really appalled at this oversight. While we're at it, I think the MIDI Graphic Edit Window should have a provision for changing the track of a selection — the equivalent of copy/pasting the selection into the other track without having to go through several steps to make it happen. Just something like CONTROL-CLICK the little "pencil" marker beside the destination track name, and it simply changes track. CONTROL-OPTION-CLICK would duplicate it to that track, leaving you with the original selection in its original track, plus a copy in the destination track.

That just makes sense. And talk about track mutes? The workaround of putting selected notes into a scratch track would probably become the EASY, preferable way if it were that simple to change the track of a selection.

Shooshie