Reply To: Extend Podium’s track hierarchy concept

I’m not sure I follow what you mean by “reverse signal flow”, so my comments here may be of no use whatever!!

In my mind the best way to think of it is as a different way of doing send and return. (sort of!!)

Currently in podium…

[grp 1 [track 1

[      [track 2

[      [track 3

… you can merge signal from track 1,2 & 3 into a single group

My idea is that as well as merge, you could allow “duplicatation” of a signal.

So…

[Track 4 [grp 1 [track 1

[track 5 [      [track 2

[track 6 [      [track 3

Track 1,2 & 3 get merged into group 1

Output of group 1 gets duplicated and sent 3 ways..
1 copy of signal goes to track 4, another copy goes to track 5, another to track 6
Aim of this is to apply different sets of FX, so Track 4 could have some EQ
Track 5 with some reverb and different EQ
Track 6 EQ and delay etc…

Above example is with audio
But same metaphor would be great to have with midi, sending same midi input signals to different devices, which would be amazing if you could also “filter” the midi notes by note ranges etc..

Hope that helps.
And just to restate, this is not something I personally “need” but it was an idea I had that I thought could com under the category of maybe being an attention grabbing feature for new users.

And maybe an easier way of visualising routing options that have also been discussed in other places (Although it may well be that it is less flexible and less easy ot understand!!)