I have had some similar problems with simple copy/paste between arrangements.
I really hope that Frits will finish to consolidate the compact mode because it can be actually extremely confusing !
My example consists to copy 2 events on 2 tracks from an arrangement to another one (the two in compact mode).
Copy/pasting has always been strangely convoluted in Podium, but it can now become a total mess.
1. the 2 selected events, the topmost track selected :
2. the 2 events pasted, the topmost track selected, the 2nd event goes on the level automation track, not too bad…
3. second try, 1st arrangement, the second track is now selected before copying the events :
4. the 2 events pasted (second track selected) : the first one doesn’t appear, but it plays :
5. looking at the same arrangement in Expanded mode :
6. unhiding a lane in the first track : it was here !
How a such simple thing as copy/paste of events can result into a so complicated result ?
I know that the answer is because in the 1st arrangement there is a plugin lane on the second track and not in the second arrangement, but it must not be a problem for the user…
The old original Expanded mode, when not hidding lanes !, was at least clear and logical until you had understood the way it worked.
The “new” compact mode seems to be as easy to use as what we find in other DAWS, but the two modes are not well harmonized : the compact mode looks like a workaround to the complexity and automation limits of the hierarchic engine, but actually results in some unlogical behaviours from the point of view of the user.
Finishing the transition between the two modes (and hiding completely the old one ?) seems to me to be a high priority.
