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in terms of what people are familiar with, I think ‘phantom’ or ‘ghost’ is better. But technically, something like ‘reference’ woudl be better IMO. ‘Reference’ seems to capture the essence of this functionality IMO, as would something like ‘master’ ie ‘master clip’ but it may become confused with the master output and/or mastering?

If you end up leaving it as ‘phantom’ I think that would be fine as it has the same meaning as ‘ghost’ anyway. I’m quite happy with the term ‘phantom copy’

regarding ALT key and segment tool, I don’t use this much either, so I’d be happy for the ALT key to be used elsewhere. I personally use the insert key to create phantom copies.

Hi Frits, the new zoom and scroll bars buttons and functionality are really nice! 8)

my only new suggestion would be that when you click on a sequence and it appears in the sequence profile, that any midi data is centered vertically in the display. It’s a very minor thing, only to prevent a bit of unnecessary scrolling

actually one more thing, maybe the sequence profile needs it’s own horizontal scroll bar and zoom controls… or did you not put this in because it would look confusing having two lots of scroll bar controls with one just above the other?

might be handy to have the arrangement and individual sequences zoomed in at different levels, because in the current version 1.44 they both have the same horizontal zoom (but independent vertical zoom)

PS the horizontal zoom for the sequences could begin just after the vertical “visual keyboard” in the sequence, so it wouldn’t be as wide as the arrangement editor’s horizontal scroll bar, so it wouldn’t be so confusing. Also, the sequence horizontal scroll bar could be vertically smaller as well. I notice when you adjust the Profile Properties and add “Scrollbar” to the region list, it adds a horiz scroll bar which is disabled… you could simply enable this scroll bar, as it appears smaller anyway? though it might be better at the bottom of the sequence profile instead of the top?

Thanks, oh mighty uber-developer
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@Zynewave wrote:

The tool icons are now smaller and anti-aliased. To me this looks better. I’ve always been unhappy with the sharp pixelized look of the old icons, which was a direct copy of the tool mouse cursor images.

I hate to rock the boat, but I preferred the old icons too. Sure, they were aliased and stood out, but that’s a good thing 😉 I think they look a bit too blurry now. In my opinion, you should try using a darker stroke around the icon elements so they look a bit crisper… Look at the examples below, in the second one I used a 1 pixel black stroke at 43% opacity

Before:

After:

Just my opinion (as a part time Graphic Designer). The example images I did are pretty rough (did them in 5 minutes) but it helps to keep the icons looking crisp IMO