.As you may know the track inspector is currently embedded in the left edge of the tracks region. Originally the track inspector only had the five object panels. The space requirements have grown with the addition of embedded plugin editors and recently the group panel. I’m experimenting with removing the inspector from the tracks region, and instead embedding it at the left edge of the browser window. See screenshot below. The “Inspector” tab at the top works just like the current “List” tab. This provides the maximum available vertical space for the inspector. I think it also cleans up the graphics of the tracks region, embedded sequence editor and the mixer, which now aligns nicely. Another benefit is that the inspector can be shown in browser windows where you e.g. only show mixers.
I would prefer to get rid of the old embedded inspector, so please reply if you have a good reason for keeping the old embedded inspector.
@estwing wrote:
Hi Frits
obviously I get the signal flow approach, in this case mda piano-zPEQ-Send2-Send1
but if you look at the mda Piano group track lane in expanded mode the gain and pan dials would be read below the title”mda Piano”,opposite to the way in the inspector. Sorry but i was just trying to illustrate this with my previous post.
Mart
Totally agree with this. I also understand the thinking behind it Frits, but it just looks odd.
To illustrate it further…
Clearly one can see that the Gain and Pan for the Trilogy track are placed under the Track header in the arranger view but also over it in the GP. It’s inconsistent.
I will say this though…in Compact mode the Gain and Pan controls are placed above track headers or in the Track chain panel headers above all other tracks. This works very well IMO. But go to Expanded mode and you have the graphical inconsistency that estwing brought up.
As the Gain and Pan above track headers is a new design then going forward maybe you could…
a. Bring the new Gain and Pan sliders into the GP to replace the dials and also add them to Expanded mode track headers for consistency.
b. Place the current Gain and Pan dials below the track headers in the GP (in Expanded mode) so that they mirror the graphical layout of Tracks in the arrange view.
c. Add the new Gain and Pan sliders to the GP and do away with Expanded mode altogether. Adding any remaining functionality found in that mode to Compact mode. So effectively there would be one default mode.
