Reply To: Preview 2.23: Redesigned group panel
roninI like the idea of the “live-rack” too. Maybe this could be a separate panel in the inspector? With a select-box to choose which live-rack (one for each plugin and a global one where all track-vst-parameters can be mapped to the eight dials) is shown.
@Group Panel: To put it short: What do all these buttons do? I think some of them can be removed or integrated. I’ll try to give an example.
First there was an empty track 🙂 Gain and pan are set to the only valid position. To distinguish track gain/pan from the effect/send region stuff the panel should use some graphical elements like
fx inserts
fx inserts
. Gain and pan should be placed after/above that region (usually you want to use “insert effects” and control track gain/pan at the end of the chain). The group panel should look like this (probably with these region marks)
****gain & pan****
fx inserts
***D/W dial – FX-chooser slot1***
fx inserts
***VSTi chooser***
***input device chooser***
A D/W knob is a useful thing. The FX-chooser should be a combobox to select the different plugins (it looks already nice in the current screenshots). To show the state of the plugin it could use different colors (red – bypassed, green – editor open, yellow – solo, grey – default). The FX-chooser should have an item “no plugin”. Right-clicking the chooser opens a context menu which shows things like “Add Parameter -> VST ParameterList” and “Bounce” etc.
Drag & drop inserting/reordering should be available too (or these tasks have to be added to the context menu). Left clicking the “fx-name part” of the chooser opens the plugin editor. Left clicking the small triangle on the right (+ a few pixels 🙂 ) opens the menu where the device mappings/plugins can be selected. Maybe this should be two separate buttons which are “glued together” like it is possible with the new transport controls.
And maybe thats all it needs.
I’m not sure about how the initial layout should look like. Somehow you have to add synth, fx and midi/audio input. Three initial/empty slots would probably clutter the layout…