Sigh… I think I’m over the initial shock now. That was quite something.
I guess there’s no way you could be convinced to make the button roundness setting also apply to all the things on track headers, mixer strips, and the rack…? I understand the implications it would have.
@Zynewave wrote:
I’d appreciate your feedback on the new design.
Are you sure?
Well then, time to put on your graphic designer flame suit, Frits! I hope it has rounded corners. 
– I find it weird that buttons on track headers, mixer strips, and in the rack don’t have (noticable) shadows anymore, whereas all other buttons still do. Personally, I liked it better with shadows, as in 2.35.
– What happened to the frame on mixer strips!? 🙁 Personally, I don’t care whether the selector buttons overlap the frame, or the frame overlaps them – I don’t want to have to look at the top of mixer strips every time to see which one is selected. Besides, it looked really neat. 😉
– I don’t like how the group level color strips are so distinctly separate from the track headers now. I much, much prefer the 2.35 look.
– I don’t like that the space between the input/source selectors and effects is gone.
– It’s funny that the gain/pan fields now always use that small font, even though you said before that better readability compared to the small font on faders was one of the fields’ main advantages. 😉
– I think a logical consequence of mixer strip resizing is that the BSMR buttons should just be centered when they are drawn on top of the meters. I’d say this should also happen on MIDI tracks (that have no meters).
– There’s some space wasted where the B button usually is. Maybe this space could be reclaimed when you don’t actually have a track visible on which bouncing is enabled. If there is one, it would push down the SMR buttons so they’re aligned again on all tracks.
– With the line separating the name and selector buttons on track headers gone now, I think it’d look better if the whole header was colored with the selection color again whenever it’s small enough so that the input, source, etc. buttons aren’t visible. Incidentally, since the separator is gone, there’s no indication of where you can drop things, so would it be possible to change it so that devices can be dropped anywhere on track headers?
– I think hiding the handles in the zPEQ editor miniature when reaching a certain zoom level would be worthwhile. That way you could at least see the EQ curve (you can’t reasonably edit it anyway using that tiny editor).
– Have you ever thought about using dials for pan again? It’s just easier to see, and definitely easier to adjust values on small strips. Unless everyone hates dials. 🙂
– About moving the glass slider option away from color settings… I think it’s something that is more closely related to color setups. This is a really minor thing, though.
Looks like my design preferences just differ greatly from yours sometimes. I apologize for all the bitching. Possibly more to come as I notice things, though 😛
I’m not 100% sure this is what you asked for, but I hope it helps. 😉
The Kore Player instance in the video is not part of a multi-out mapping, as far as I can tell… There are no device mappings on the child tracks, so the MIDI data that is written on them flows up into the single Kore Player instance.
If you want to use a multi-out instance, Podium creates the MIDI inputs and audio outputs separately. I think what you want to do is have audio outputs 1+2 routed to the track that sends MIDI on channel 1 (for example), and so on. This is possible if you edit the device mappings – look for the MIDI and audio configuration:
After you configured everything, you can remove unneeded mappings and maybe save it as a template. Keep in mind that the device mappings’ audio/MIDI assignments are fixed, and can only be changed in the device mapping properties window. It’s therefore not possible to quickly reassign audio out 5+6 and MIDI in 4 to track X, as it’s all dependent to the device mappings.
@LiquidProj3ct wrote:
1. In arrangement view I’ve selected one single clip. I barely can remeber where the others phantom clips are, so I could screw it up (and I did it several times). Please, highlight (no active selection highlight) all phantom copies when you select one.
How about something like this?
It won’t work, of course, if Frits already has plans to change the look of normal event selections. Come to think of it, I think it also won’t work if you have those event headers enabled. :-k
Anyways, I’d prefer any kind of phantom copy highlighting to be optional, as I don’t need it personally.
2. Grid should be more helpful, I had an small problem moving a clip (it isn’t easy see the bar numbers while you’re dragging), also a lot in editors.
To more easily align sequences and events, I still like the idea of optional bars reaching down from the timeline ruler displayed at the beginning and end of events while moving/resizing them. Coloring even/odd bars differently is nice, too, but I’d prefer to have a blend setting to tone it down or even turn it off (already said that in the other thread).
3. Hiding unuseful tracks from arrangement or mixer. Nowadays if you hide a track in the mixer you hide it too from the arrangement view. Those outputs called Drumazon Out could be hided from the arrangement, obtaining extra vertical space. In the mixer few tracks can be minimized, it helps but it isn’t enough.
I don’t think you’d necessarily need another checkbox in the tags dialog (though it might be helpful), or a second check button on tag buttons.
What better place to tag tracks to be shown/hidden in the mixer than the mixer itself!
Think about it – what if tracks that get tagged would be shown in both the arrangement and mixer at first. When you remove a tag from a track in the arrangement, it stays visible in the mixer. The same happens the other way around. Since active selection in the mixer means the track isn’t actively selected in the arrangement anymore, I think there’d be little room for mixups. To again show a track that was, for example, accidentally hidden in the mixer, you could either select it in the arrangement, switch to the mixer region and re-tag it, or deselect the tag to show the track, and re-tag it like usual. You could add a modifier key for the check button to remove a track from both arrangement and mixer if you think it’s going to be cumbersome. Or remove tags from both if the mixer isn’t visible, and remove them only from the arrangement if the mixer is visible and you’re untaggin an arrangement track.
Does any of this sound good or is it still too confusing?
