4.6.1 wishlist

[dix]

I'd like to see some serious attention paid fixing what ever is causing these CPU spikes. It was rarely an issue for me before 4.6. Now it's a constant annoyance.

[Pappy725]

Markers that have the hour:min:sec:hundredths. I record live groups for 2 hour or longer sets in one long sequence. Hit record and let 'er roll. When I set markers for beginnings and ends of songs, after I pass the hour mark I can't select the times in the marker window and change them. They go back to
02:00:00 minutes into the sequence instead of 1:02:00:00. Anyway, 4.6 rocks!

[Timeline]

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Icon 1 posted July 09, 2005 10:52 AM Profile for TheHopiWay Email TheHopiWay Edit/Delete Post Reply With Quote Five wishes;
1- Make DCPUM switchable.
2- Make DCPUM switchable.
3- Make DCPUM switchable.
4- Make DCPUM switchable.
5- Make DCPUM switchable.[/QUOTE]

A big thanks for posting this Hopi.

I also apeal to MOTU again for an (UPDATE TO END)
command butto, switch or whatever so automation shortcuts are available.

(DESCRIPTION: Update to end is a keystroke or button that would take anything being updated in the automation during playback dand extend the update items to the end of the mix without the need to graphically or manually play to end of song. To confirm the 'update, DP would have to flash something or stop playback)

Thanks again

[Sylver]

Distributed proccessing. It would be great to be able to off load VIs and plugs to an iMac or a ebay bargin PowerMac G4!

[FMiguelez]

Someone mentioned this already, but I‘d also BEG for being able to switch between different colors on the same track. I can bet that most composers who, like me, work with large orchestral sequences doing film scoring or TV stuff would scream with joy if they implement it. This is especially usefull during the orchestration and mixing process. For instance, being able to color-code the soundbites/MIDI bites to red for the melody lines, blue for secondary melodies, green for harmony pads, etc. would give you and instant graphical global view (in the tracks window) of your orchestral texture, and when mixing doubled lines among many instruments (wood winds in octaves, for instance) you can instantly see who is playing what, and when (asumming you bothered to color code the sound/MIDI bite) you want to revise your orchestrations it would be so easy to calculate the relative weight of the different lines for credible orchestrations. Again, this is especially usefull for large orchestral scores where a lot of doubling and counterpoint is going on.
This feature alone, would speed up at least 30% of the orchestration time (you could see who plays what) and 50% mixing time (just trying to get all the instruments that double a certain line in the sequence editor for fine-detailed-mixing takes for ever). It really stops the work flow by you needing to dig into tracks to find these melody snipets all over the place
My work around so far has been to do some template layouts where I have on paper what looks like the tracks window and do what I described manually using colors. The time I spend doing that really pays off during orchestrating and mixing stages.
PLEASE! Implement this feature on the next update. PORFAVOR!!!!

[shepherdgary]

I find the Song mode baffling still - can't get any audio sound out of it - unless I convert the song chain to a chunk - which I could do far easier by cutting and pasting. So I find this function (which is how I used to work in Vision DSP - chaining sequences together) still crap. Am I doing something wrong - or does MOYU need to improve this function in a later version ?

[shepherdgary]

sorry mean MOTU of course!

[kwiz]

Originally posted by Sylver:
Distributed proccessing. It would be great to be able to off load VIs and plugs to an iMac or a ebay bargin PowerMac G4!

I agree. That would be an incredible feature in DP!
http://www.apple.com/logicpro/distributedaudio.html

[Fibes]

BWAV Support.

It's time, it's the future...

[sdfalk]

BWAV Support.

Apparently when Motu demoed some of these new
features (pitch correction etc)
Someone noted that there appeared to be BWAV
files in the session.
Perhaps that ones around the corner.

[sdfalk]

Make DCPUM switchable.

...Oh and I'd have to agree and sent off my 2 cents
to Motu requesting it as well

[dtobocman]

Been waiting for this feature for over a decade...

The ability to group a number of adjacent tracks in the tracks window and move them AS A UNIT up or down. This would save me so much time, eyesight, and brainpower. Please.

[mess]

Originally posted by dtobocman:
Been waiting for this feature for over a decade...

The ability to group a number of adjacent tracks in the tracks window and move them AS A UNIT up or down. This would save me so much time, eyesight, and brainpower. Please.

Control-Page Up and Control-Page Down will move selected tracks up or down together. Look in the commands window under Track Commands, there's a few commands for moving and organizing tracks.

[wonder]

a "INSTANT GROUPIES" button....could be handy on those LOOONNNGG sessions.

[dtobocman]

Originally posted by mess:

Originally posted by dtobocman:
Been waiting for this feature for over a decade...

The ability to group a number of adjacent tracks in the tracks window and move them AS A UNIT up or down. This would save me so much time, eyesight, and brainpower. Please.

Control-Page Up and Control-Page Down will move selected tracks up or down together. Look in the commands window under Track Commands, there's a few commands for moving and organizing tracks.

F*ck me. Thanks!