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i haven't got 5, still got 4, casue when iheard 6 was coming out at the end of the year, i thought i'd wait. so its possible that thing i'm talking about are in 5 already.
automation! when automating in either windows you can only have one paramter up at a time. this i think is time consuming and having multiple paramters open for editing is common in other apps. with that in mind, when editing automation after say a recording, it would be good if the paramters you have just tweaked were only available in the drop down window or even say at the top so you dont have to scroll through a big list to find the parameter you just tweaked to edit it. so yeah, some sort of automation window with all and or only the parameters you have tweak there to view easily for editing.

other than that there isnt really anything else i would like to see, with the exception of say some more instrumetns or developemts on the ones available. a drum sampler/loop slicer with say all the same freely assignable controls that there are on the simpler but per drum channel, so you could say automate loop start stop positions on a single drum channel, it the same wya you can on the simpler, and more drums channels on the impulse.

oh and more colours for clips.

oh yeah, and something else really important actually i forgot to mention. saving warp marker setting so you can paste them onto other clips. for examples. if you have recorded a drummer on say 4 tracks, a simple two snare mics, kick drum and hithat, and you want to really warp the whole take to get it as tight as possible(like i do sometimes cause i'm fussy like that) then from my experience, unless i'm doing something wrong, i have had to warp each track individually which has resulted in fluctuations. to resolve this i have had to mix down my drums to one track and warp that, which sometimes can sound quite bad. it would be great if you could warp one track and save the warp marker positions, so you can paste them onto other tracks from the same take. even saving common warp marker settings as templates so you can say "drag and drop"them into a clip to save you doing something you find yourself doing all the time.

for me. live has saved me so much time in so many areas, particularly with midi and just general arranging, but the are some areas where i think this amount of efficieny really could to be applied.

oh yeah, something else, a fairly comprehensive eq on each track, and tabable like the sends and stuff, whcih maybe you can toggle for where it goes in the chain, like before you record or after you record.

it would be great if you could warp one track and save the warp marker positions, so you can paste them onto other tracks from the same take.

you can do that already by replacing the audiofile within a clip. You could take e.g. the track with the overhead-mic and warp it first. Then you make a copy of that warped clip, change the name into e.g. "bassdrum" and drag the audio-track with the bassdrum from the browser onto/into the clip, lower right corner on the "sample"-named section of the clip editor. The warp markers should be kept, but the audio file is replaced.

pepezabala wrote:

it would be great if you could warp one track and save the warp marker positions, so you can paste them onto other tracks from the same take.

you can do that already by replacing the audiofile within a clip. You could take e.g. the track with the overhead-mic and warp it first. Then you make a copy of that warped clip, change the name into e.g. "bassdrum" and drag the audio-track with the bassdrum from the browser onto/into the clip, lower right corner on the "sample"-named section of the clip editor. The warp markers should be kept, but the audio file is replaced.

fair play to you sir. i wouldn't have thought of that and will mos def be trying that out tonight. seems kind of obvious really. there are clearly things i dont know about as much as i thought i did. cheers.

rude_NHS wrote:oh yeah, something else, a fairly comprehensive eq on each track, and tabable like the sends and stuff, whcih maybe you can toggle for where it goes in the chain, like before you record or after you record.

How comprehensive? There are 3 & 4 band eq's available that you can apply to each track. Or do you mean a 16 band EQ or something along those lines?