paradiddle wrote:I haven't tried the beta yet but the only thing I'm disappointed with the update is the 128 limit thing. At least we should be able to select which parameters we want to automate even if the limit is 128.
Some of my wishes came trough like the time sig, sidechaining, multiple lane, slicing. Rex files is a nice little addon. Drum racks look like the shit, can't wait to try that out.
agreed on the drumracks aye.
but i think the OP forgot something very important:
track grouping.
last week i was working on a remix with a friend of mine. due to the fact that i could group my tracks, i had 4 tracks (baseline, synthline, percussions and vocals) on 4 different tracks set to monitor "on".
after that i had 34 tracks in total with different sections of the track with different mastering and effect setups.
additionally, i also had 6 tracks for effects and another 4 send channels.
sure i rendered them out as much as i could, but all those little parts needed separate tracks most of the time.
at one point i had a total of 43 tracks on my screen, every tracks except the 4 main groups and the effect tracks were dragged in to its minimal space (that is, the play/stop button only). right there i felt that if only i could assigne these tracks to a group, then hide the contents of that group, that would not only save me a bigass headache trying to figure out what track goes where, and where the hell that sepcific synthline track were (clever naming indeed, but really..), and also save me alot of screen space. so that i could for instance open up the tracks so that i could see the knobs, and the meters fully, for level analysing and whatnots.
instead, i ended up make 5 different als files, mastering them all separatly, rendered them out separetly, before making a new live-set with these newly rendered files and continued there.
do note that this was after deciding on the arrangement, which was entirely done in session view, and slightly edited in arrangement view.
heres a screenshot after some optimisation and whatnots, in session view, while mastering the groups a bit, before final editing and render:
as you can clearly see, track groups are needed.
i know this belongs elsewhere, but im drunk so i blame it on that fact.
somewhat related to the UI thread though.
i had to photoshop the picture to make room for all the tracks.
enough said, really.
the TTTTT tracks goes int he percussion groups (or track in this case), the V in the vocals group and so on. the X is the FX tracks, which needs to be separate during this particulare screenshot, due to some painful cut n paste and destroy editing.
ohyeah, did i mention that rendering the whole file out, then playing back the rendered samples in arrangement view, gives me dropouts? -.-
so i had to do it this way.
now if you excuse me, ill go find the right forum for this. hah.
