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Nice DP organizing tip...

Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2014 2:40 pm
by FMiguelez
Hello.

This morning a friend of mine stopped by, and while we were working on a DP thing, he noticed something that he loved about my Audio Bundles. I was surprised he was surprised because I think it's kind of obvious and probably most of you do it already, but in case you don't, I thought you may find it useful...

Instead of seeing this:

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You can see this. Notice how much easier it is to at a glance find the things you need, thanks to the separation a "dummy bundle" allows...

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This is what the Bundles window looks like too (easy to find your way around many bundles):

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And since we don't have Chunk Folders, one can also organize chunks a little better with "dummy" ones to separate them, just like with the Bundles:

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Hopefully this will help someone see and find things a little easier in DP.

Re: Nice DP organizing tip...

Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2014 5:52 pm
by Prime Mover
Lol, your tip really makes it simple... while your naming conventions give me an aneurism! What the heck? Glad my projects aren't that complicated.

Re: Nice DP organizing tip...

Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2014 6:46 pm
by BKK-OZ
Excellent idea, and no, it wasn't an obvious idea to me until I saw your topic, thanx.

Even things that seem obvious sometimes aren't, I guess even the wheel had to be thought up by someone originally.

Mind you, it would be better if MOTU gave us separators and (more) folders, but until then, this is a good way to do things.

Re: Nice DP organizing tip...

Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2014 7:10 pm
by bayswater
I do that with clippings. It didn't occur to me to do it with bundles too (duh).

Re: Nice DP organizing tip...

Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 6:05 am
by delcosmos
Nice tip.
Gracias!

Re: Nice DP organizing tip...

Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 6:21 am
by labman
Hey FM. Thats exactly how we do it! Except we have a macro to type ======. Older folks need double lines :) You young whippersnappers with the good eyes. :woohoo:

Re: Nice DP organizing tip...

Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 10:01 am
by frankf
+1 on never thought of this with bundles. I use "dummy" MIDI tracks as separators: color white, no name, or I/O assigns, track inactive. Helps me a lot with old eyes, labman.


Frank Ferrucci

Re: Nice DP organizing tip...

Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 12:45 pm
by Dwetmaster
Very good tip Thanks. I never thought of doing that.

Now if I could just take the time to work on that template... :)

Re: Nice DP organizing tip...

Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 1:12 pm
by Dwetmaster
Very good tip Thanks. I never thought of doing that.

Now if I could just take the time to work on that template... :)

Re: Nice DP organizing tip...

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 3:48 am
by doodles
great tip! thnx!

Re: Nice DP organizing tip...

Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 7:37 am
by MOTU_TechSupport
Hey FMiguelez,

Nice tip! Mind if we use this as a Tip of the Day on our FaceBook page? Would really like to share this technique.

Re: Nice DP organizing tip...

Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 8:12 am
by HCMarkus
FM, you are famous! :D

Re: Nice DP organizing tip...

Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 8:12 am
by MIDI Life Crisis
Your 15 has arrived FM. Savor it!

Re: Nice DP organizing tip...

Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 8:44 am
by bayswater
Make sure they spell your name correctly.

Re: Nice DP organizing tip...

Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 9:49 am
by Tritonemusic
Can I have your autograph? :koolaid: