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I know this has been touched on before, I think it'd be nice to get a broad idea of what the kinks in the Push browsing experience are, and what various peoples' idea of an ideal browsing experience from Push would involve.

Also ideas on how they imagine features relating to the browser might realistically be implemented.

I don't know if the Ableton team would really read this but in the small chance that they might, perhaps it'd give them a taste for direction.


I guess a couple of my ideas are:

1. Have the actual Live browser have a button specifically for Push functions and organization. Then you can customize what you see when you hit Browse on Push (aside from hot swapping, which is a powerful feature with lots of potential already!!). I believe Maschine has the slight advantage of their software browser being deliberately dedicated to their hardware, where as Live is handling two concepts at once. (DAW/Live performance browsing and then hardware browsing)

2. Faster access to individual elements of longer lists, maybe a horizontal scrolling mode so you have a list of devices and many buttons for loading them quickly instead of aiming and pressing (especially for quickly adding fx to channels!) or at least a kind of 'favorites' in this fashion.

1. Stop sorting things by what pack they are in, and instead focus on sound type.

Tarekith wrote:1. Stop sorting things by what pack they are in, and instead focus on sound type.

^^ That

This was the most confusing thing I hit when Live 9 came out. I installed all the new "packs" but now if I want a simple snare for instance I have my onwn samples library, the drums section and the packs section. Couldn't really give a fig about packs I would rather have the patches and samples just show up under the categories.

A tag system would be a dream. Being able to tag files to sort would be quite handy.

Also, a "library manager" feature where you could easily manage files and even "deselect" files with a simple checkbox which would not delete the file from the library but maybe grey it out, place it at the end of all lists and exclude it from searches (exclude it from the push interface).

I believe Ableton will improve the browser. It is usable , just a bit clunky. I can see they want to make sure it performs with huge library's before fiddling with new features so I am cool for them to take some time to do it right (just not years).

Tarekith wrote:1. Stop sorting things by what pack they are in, and instead focus on sound type.

+2. that and the ability to ignore ableton's presets and categories altogether and i'd be happy.

I'm so generic

I like the way it's laid out pretty much. Though I think the tag idea is a really useful one.