feature request list for 2002

[MARVINBASS]

A virtual dummy light to let you know if you are in input or auto monitoring.

[DigiDawg]

All good ideas. My wish list would be for a toggle key for tracks other than Waveform and Volume. The "-" is awesome but I find myself wanting the same thing for panning and specifically for plug-in automation. Having to dive back and under those little menus for a plug-in with heavy automation is a bit of a drag.

Also, nested folders for the regions list would be unbelievably great.

Just my .02

Thanks,


DigiDawg

[DigiTechSupt]

I would have to agree with most of these requests but some of them are already there...

- Keyboard shortcut for Auto/Input monitoring is Optoin, K

- "A virtual dummy light to let you know if you are in input or auto monitoring."
It's already there, the record button becomes a light shade of green when Input monitoring is on.

- Multiprocessor support is supposed to come with OSX support.

- Reason support, talk to Propellerheads about that one.

- "Eliminate all those annoying dialogs when you're removing unused audio". If I understand this one correctly, you can hold the option key when you hit "Yes" on the first one and you won't get any more "are you sure?" dialogues.

- VST plugin support. Just my opinion here... there are many great VST plugins but there are also many "not so great" VST plugins. Consider that the integrity of your system ( it's stability, whether it crashes or not and how often) is on the line with every piece of sofware (each plugin) you add to it. Digidesign has strict standards for who can make plugins and how they are made. The downside of this is that there may be fewer TDM, RTAS and Audiosuite plugins available but the upside is that TDM, RTAS, AudioSuite are reliable, great sounding and don't crash your system.

- "Individual Track offsets (MIDI & Audio)"
Midi tracks can be offset on a per track basis in the "Midi track offset" window. This can be found under the "Windows" menu. If you don't have this you need to upgrade your version of Pro Tools to the latest version. Audio tracks can be offset by either using the "Time Adjuster" plugin or nudging the track using a small nudge increment.

- "Get the latency thing buttoned up" [when using plugins]. Use Time adjuster plugin. Keep in mind that automatically adjusting for plugin latency is no easy task especially when you consider how many plugins may exist in a session. Also keep in mind that there is no such thing in the analog domain and any digital system that I know of, and correct me if I'm wrong, that does it costs a whole lot of money. All that to say, I agree with you it would be nice to have.

Also, if you are on a TDM system and you assign a track to a specific voice, as opposed to using "Auto voice", Pro Tools will automatically compensate for RTAS plugin latency.

- "Multiple Video clip support" is there if you have AV Option or AV Option XL and Pro Tools 5.1.1 or greater.

Jon Connolly
Digidesign Product Specialist

[Targon]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR> - VST plugin support. Just my opinion here... there are many great VST plugins but there are also many "not so great" VST plugins. Consider that the integrity of your system ( it's stability, whether it crashes or not and how often) is on the line with every piece of sofware (each plugin) you add to it. Digidesign has strict standards for who can make plugins and how they are made. The downside of this is that there may be fewer TDM, RTAS and Audiosuite plugins available but the upside is that TDM, RTAS, AudioSuite are reliable, great sounding and don't crash your system. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Jon, So whats the big deal here? We only want to buy and use the GREAT, plugs not the crap ones. My opinion is that the VST system provides a larger variety of proccessors instead of the usual compressors,limiters, eq's. Ect. If we had VST support the likes of many wouldnt have to deal with Logic/Spewbase just for some of the more unusual proccessors.

RTAS plugs are great but i never see any sik phasers, distortions, and other cool bits which seem to be available in VST. There are a few filters but nothing to cream over. VST plugs cover alot of differnt ground to what the RTAS do and these are great for audio manipulations. Most positively does this add to the flexibility of the program as far as the home studio recording guys are concerned. Maybe give PTLE VST support and provide no support for VST in the TDM version. Thats only fair i think and a great compromise for the two different target markets.

My List some apply only to PT LE

BiG ONE-Db markings along side the Gas meters also a numerical read out of the max level each track hits. Most waves plugs do this.

Smpte TC ruler-duh LE

Key stroke for Bounce to disk.

Ability to assign Midi Controllers to parameters on plugins within the actual plugin. So we can use a Doepfer Drebank or some other box with knobs...fader boxs arent really suitable for this.

Aux tracks should have a VOL level of 0Db upon the creation of. So many times have i created an AUX wondering why i aint hearin not audio that is streaming thru to a bussed audio track only to remember the AUX is created with the fader down...ack [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img]

CPU meter and PCI meter box should be intergrated into the main Edit window just to the right of the"grid/nudge" counter. Also disk space used and remaining up there as well. Individual windows for these 2 make the interface cluttered. There is the perfect amount of room up ther..why not use it for something useful?

There is literaly NO help system in Pro Tools. It would be great to select "Show Balloons" from the Help menu and to hold the cursor over a button, function in the preferences or an itemin the menu's themselves to obtain info on them. Motu DP has an extensive and great Ballon Help. DUC support guys here may not have to answer repeatedly the same questions over an again!!!

Resizable Movies once imported into Pro Tools. I dont understand why a normal Quicktime movie (that can be resized in QT player) that is imported cant be resized. Besides PT uses QT here.

Another approach on the Plugin arangement idea at the application level not Finder level.

How bout a plugins window similar to the "arrange or manage bookmarks" window in most browsers. Here you can create folders named "Compressors" for example, u get all your comps an put them in this folder. Also you should be able to add a line break for ppl that may want to have a folder for each companies different plugs. ie in between 2 line breaks there may be 5 Compressor folders named "Waves Compressors", Drwamer Compressors etc Then after the line break Waves Reverbs, Digi Reverbs etc.

Pro Tools is still way ahead of the pack when it comes to interface operation.

Targon

[Kenny Gioia]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by DigiTechSupt:

- "Eliminate all those annoying dialogs when you're removing unused audio". If I understand this one correctly, you can hold the option key when you hit "Yes" on the first one and you won't get any more "are you sure?" dialogues.

Jon Connolly
Digidesign Product Specialist<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

When you option click the Delete key, it only stops asking if you are sure you want to delete (good warning). It still gives you all the dialogs that say - You can't delete this file because some regions are being used, do you want to remove them.

Am I missing something.

Thanks for replying to this board.

[EthanMorse]

I personally think the VST plugs stink~...

[uno1234]

Plug in latency is a REAL PROBLEM when using plugins like DINR and Pitch Doctor, that have a very obvious effect on the rhythm/sound, as opposed to just phasing.

I understand this is not available in the analog world, but part of the point of the digital world is to make our lives easier. (one would only hope).

For example. I have a vocal track with pitch doctor assigned to it. I nudge it back 89 ms (and don't tell me time adjuster is an option-- I'm not going to nudge 60 other tracks forward 89 ms). Now I want to edit this vocal against the background vocals. Well, I can't. I create a dummy vocal track with the audio regions visually aligned in the right place, and then I edit it against the BGVs. Then I drop it into my "live" vocal track and nudge it back 89 ms. If you have alot of edits to do, this is better than getting rid of the plugin (especially if the singer sucks).

I can't tell you how many times I've gotten the nudging screwed up in one way or another. It is just something else to keep track of. And of course the client always freaks out if I forget to nudge the vocal track back in position once I've taken off the plugin.

These are mistakes I would like Pro Tools to catch for me. So maybe it doesn't automatically compensate for the delay. How about just a track nudge value for every track? We could make is positive OR negative, so the track can be shifted EARLIER IN TIME. We'll adjust it manually, but at least the audio will LOOK right in the edit window, and you can't screw things up too much. Option-clicking on the nudge value will return it to zero.

Please Digi. You might not think this is very important, but for us that deal with this EVERY DAY with pro clients (and not-so-pro singers)... it's a big pain in the ass.

Thanks.

ps... also, in addition to the trim plugin, there should be a pre/post selectable plugin trim on every track. We shouldn't have to instantiate a plugin just to get trim. Look at the SSLs. They got it right.

[uno1234]

Here's some links to feature request list gone by. Not much has been implemented yet. For Digi's convenience:
http://duc.digidesign.com/cgi-bin/ub...&f=16&t=009508
http://duc.digidesign.com/cgi-bin/ub...c&f=1&t=002199
http://duc.digidesign.com/cgi-bin/ub...c&f=1&t=003202
http://duc.digidesign.com/cgi-bin/ub...&f=16&t=004397

A lot of great contributions here. I had some good ideas about the memory locations window but can't find it on the search right now.

[JamerJ]

Thanks Jon (Digidesign),

I appreciate your direct insight and suggestions. With the new CPU's RTAS
is far more viable, with all the ram and
proccessing power these days, so I will
try to do more in that domain to clear
up the subtle latency issue.

Thanks again for the DIRECT support!

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[branco]

I'd like to see different approach to fader grouping. Could just ONE fader be the Group Master, affecting slaves, while letting us move other group members independently, without affecting others? Like on MCI 500 series, or SSL?
Branko