| A few more thoughts - would love to hear Houstons views, especially as he's a Nuendo guy.
Can I just saw how completely and utterly ridulously cool the edit panel is? So easy to set up, I had a blast with that this morning. I found a few cool ways to set it up for adding new tracks to a project, cycle markers etc.
Trying to find a cunning way to let me rename tracks from the editpanel/virtkey without having to use the mouse to double click.
Anyway I would love to see (disclaimer it may do some of this already, it is DEEP!):
The ability to hide the Cubase Dyn/EQ on the main display. I would like these replaced by an enlarged insert and send view, where I can access individual window open buttons for each plug-in on an insert - and turn them on and off, assign sends etc.
With the free screen real estate cleared by removing the EQ/Dyn slots - I would love to see an input source assign. The output assign in the pan section is great but I'd like to see one for assigning inputs.
Which leads on to my next point:
What makes PT so fast is the target specific and sequential assign modes for inputs etc. Now I know some of this is available in other DAWs, but I would love to see the Tango allow me to apply a control to a selection. The way I see Tango - it is like a computer assistant with 100 hands that can press and fade at once, all without the DAW ever knowing. Thus I feel these kind of things could be done. It would even the playing field betwen all platforms.
For example - I would like to select tracks 1-8 by wiping on the Arc or inject points and then perform sequential assigns for inputs... tracking would be very quick. Essentially do the kind of things Duality can do in the analogue routing domain.
I'd like to see copy/paste on inserts - effectively Tango could copy the plugin parameters and then load a new one on a designated track and then paste the settings in, this should be possible on Tango even if the DAW can't (Cubase for example - Logic and PT murder it here).
Route selection would be nice, so I could just wipe across the Arc/Injects to route all my drums to my drumbuss.
Mono tracks in Cubase that go to a mono group still display a pan crosshair - I would love to see that removed to reflect the fact there is no panner in Cubase.
A stereo track with two independant panners (L+R) - not tried yet, but I'm not sure if it displays two pan crosshairs, or how you actually access each side.
On the Arc you can minimise your groups (flatten or expand), which means I can collapse 13 tracks of drums onto a single fader to increase the efficiency of the 8 faders on the controller (once I have the group set) - however whilst the MonArc displays a flattened group, the faders and controller display still see all 13.
Therefore it only saves MonArc space and not fader space, I'm sure this worked in Pyramix when I got a demo?? Anyone? Do i have to wipe mode the channels I want, leaving one on the surface that is in the group?
I found a few issues with Cubase automation today. You can put a track in read or read/write but I couldn't turn auto off once enabled without manually doing it in the DAW, seems like a bug?
-Tom |