SOS Article on Pro Tools Most Requested Features

[DonaldM]

There’s an interesting article in the latest issue of Sound on Sound (May 2017, pg 172-173) on the 5 most requested features from Pro Tools users. They took these off the Pro Tools Ideascale website. It was pretty interesting. If you haven’t looked at Ideascale lately, these are the most requested features:
5. Bus Solo Feature – soloing a track will automatically solo any tracks routed to it. Now you have to solo all the tracks together, which can be a pita at times.
4. A Polarity Switch on Every Channel – Most all hardware mixers have polarity inversion buttons at the top of a channel strip. It would seem natural for PT to have that as well.
3. Markers – As in MORE marker lanes. Right now we can only have one lane of markers. How often have you wished you could have one lane of markers for marking song sections, and another for marking when instruments come in and out and a third for something else (and maybe a fourth or fifth for other things). As the article says, the potential for uses is endless. +1000 for me on this one!
2. Save and Load Plugin Chains – Have a favorite plugin chain you like to use session after session. Wouldn’t it be nice to create your favorite chain and be able to save it as a custom set up and then call it up to place on a track with one click, instead of having to reinstall each one separately each time.
1. And the top vote getter is…drumroll please…Folders in the Clip List. Wouldn’t it be nice to group clips and put them in folders for easy recall later? This would be especially useful for all the post people out there.
The article provides the links to Ideascale for each one of these so you can cast your vote.
Personally, though, I think the article missed the REAL number one most requested feature: STABILITY!

[Sardi]

It's a pretty sad state of affairs when we refer to stability as a feature.


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[DonaldM]

Originally Posted by Electronic1982

Let us organise the plugin menu's to our pleasing! Please see my signature and give it a vote!!!!
thanks.

Done!

[DonaldM]

One improvement I'd like to see is the ability to change the view on individual tracks in the mix window. With larger mixes, I often use narrow view to see more tracks, but I often want the normal view in order to see the other info. Be nice to be able to just have certain tracks in one view or the other depending.

If you agree vote here.

[tonwurm]

Originally Posted by Sardi

It's a pretty sad state of affairs when we refer to stability as a feature.


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exactly

[john1192]

Originally Posted by DonaldM

One improvement I'd like to see is the ability to change the view on individual tracks in the mix window. With larger mixes, I often use narrow view to see more tracks, but I often want the normal view in order to see the other info. Be nice to be able to just have certain tracks in one view or the other depending.

If you agree vote here.

how about a Magnifier .. so that the Track you are currently hovering over becomes Normal or OverSized would be cool ... while in Mini-fader mode .. kinda like what the Dock on a MAC can do .. BUT to take that to the next Level .. it would bring into View All the Busses, Auxes, Tracks, Masters that are associated with the Track .. or even better say you have a Group !! same thing, you have the option to show the entire path ... we have this option in the Clip List now ...

and folders in the clip list has been asked for Since AudioVision Days !!!!!

keep asking .. maybe one day ..

and tossing Pref's is so 20th Century !!! can we get a built in Pref Cleaner that does not change your personal pref's .. just the Bad Things ..

BTW: what the hell are the BAd Pref's that cause us to Always be Tossing them ??????? what kind of software is this .. have you ever, ever had to toss pref's on Microsoft Word or Final Cut Pro ??? or Logic, or Cubase, or "insert program here"

sorry, venting on a saturday ... bad gearslut !!!!

[joachim]

Originally Posted by DonaldM

One improvement I'd like to see is the ability to change the view on individual tracks in the mix window. ...If you agree vote here.[/url]

http://protools.ideascale.com/a/dtd/...is/252512-3779

Similar to this idea of 2016. Maybe "merge" both.

[simonjewel]

Done! Great idea

Originally Posted by DonaldM

One improvement I'd like to see is the ability to change the view on individual tracks in the mix window. With larger mixes, I often use narrow view to see more tracks, but I often want the normal view in order to see the other info. Be nice to be able to just have certain tracks in one view or the other depending.

If you agree vote here.

[DonaldM]

Originally Posted by Electronic1982

Done! Excellent idea, there should also be the option make each level meter thick/thin as well independently

Yes, I agree!


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[Sardi]

Originally Posted by john1192

BTW: what the hell are the BAd Pref's that cause us to Always be Tossing them ??????? what kind of software is this .. have you ever, ever had to toss pref's on Microsoft Word or Final Cut Pro ??? or Logic, or Cubase, or "insert program here"

Very true.

I don't think I've ever encountered any other program that I've had to trash preferences for to get it functioning again.



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