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07-28-2020, 10:37 AM
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Originally Posted by puddi
That's how Bitwig does it:
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I like it more like in Ableton.
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07-28-2020, 10:41 AM
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#82
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Originally Posted by ferropop
Is this not infinitely better? You can clearly see the connection between origin and destination.
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For sure. If it will move with AS.
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07-28-2020, 10:41 AM
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#83
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and yeah eventually we might get "lock horizontal/vertical" when doing these types of things
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As one who almost never complains, I miss this everyday. Queue that action/shortcut fix no one ever told me about.
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07-28-2020, 10:51 AM
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#84
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Originally Posted by vitalker
For sure. If it will move with AS.
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Quit difficult because this indication has to do with track selection, not item selection. It could happen if when we move the selected items to another track, to select automatically the track where the items are in AS.
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07-28-2020, 11:19 AM
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#85
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Originally Posted by Vagelis
Quit difficult because this indication has to do with track selection, not item selection. It could happen if when we move the selected items to another track, to select automatically the track where the items are in AS.
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No track selection, just coloring track lanes.
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07-28-2020, 11:30 AM
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#86
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Quote:
Originally Posted by vitalker
I like it more like in Ableton.
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Totally agree.
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07-28-2020, 11:43 AM
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#87
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Quote:
Originally Posted by vitalker
For sure. If it will move with AS.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by vitalker
No track selection, just coloring track lanes.
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Maybe I misunderstood ferropop's gif, but I thought the whole point was that the selected tracks would always remain highlighted in the arrange area so that when you move things by dragging you'd had a clearer picture of where stuff would land with respect to the original selection. Otherwise when doing a long horizontal move like in the gif, it can be difficult to tell if you're maintaining the vertical position you'd like. Having dealt with this exact frustration many times, that's what would make the most sense to me.
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07-28-2020, 12:06 PM
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#88
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Originally Posted by Coachz
You actually use Reaper with just the arrange view and no TCP or mixer visible? It seems like it would be really hard to do much I guess anything's possible.
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In regular use, never. Much like Robin said, that could also be one way to maximize the workspace when needed, but I would be quickly lost without TCP or MCP being there as a guide.
However, if I want to see just couple of tracks maximized, that's one more way to fully utilize the space. There I don't need to see from anywhere what tracks I have selected, I made an intentional selection to maximize just them to begin with.
More than anything else, in my part mentioning it was just acknowledging the existence of a feature, which could also be helped by seeing the track selection. But I'm actually testing right now how the thick line already works to this end. One more window set just created and saved; Full Arrange.
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07-28-2020, 12:15 PM
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#89
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RobinGShore
Maybe I misunderstood ferropop's gif, but I thought the whole point was that the selected tracks would always remain highlighted in the arrange area so that when you move things by dragging you'd had a clearer picture of where stuff would land with respect to the original selection. Otherwise when doing a long horizontal move like in the gif, it can be difficult to tell if you're maintaining the vertical position you'd like. Having dealt with this exact frustration many times, that's what would make the most sense to me.
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I don’t know how many times a day I manage to paste items on the wrong track. If for one welcome our new thick line overlords.
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07-28-2020, 01:02 PM
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I'm suggesting that tinting tracks is useful in many cases. One being while dragging an Area Selection...if you drag a 4-track area selection vertically, during the drag it could tint the 4 tracks currently occupied by the AS. This way you always have a reference of where you're coming from and where you're going, and you can assess "am I lined up with the original tracks?" or in the case that you're actually pasting to a new set of tracks "am I lined up to my desired tracks?".
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07-28-2020, 03:19 PM
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#91
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Originally Posted by Sibben
I don’t know how many times a day I manage to paste items on the wrong track. If for one welcome our new thick line overlords.
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OPTIONALLY of course !!!
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07-28-2020, 05:57 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Coachz
OPTIONALLY of course !!!
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Thick line overlords give no options, silly.
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07-28-2020, 06:39 PM
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This is how I envision tinting with respect to both Active Track Selection (initial state) and Area Selection (during move/duplication).
vs (current behaviour):
(yes I'm awful at Adobe Premiere haha).
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07-29-2020, 03:53 AM
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^ i like everything about that, except that it looks like items are getting tinted as well as track background. we don't need that to happen, and it shouldn't. that might just be a symptom of your mockup, but it's worth mentioning
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07-29-2020, 04:05 AM
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Originally Posted by mccrabney
^ i like everything about that, except that it looks like items are getting tinted as well as track background. we don't need that to happen, and it shouldn't. that might just be a symptom of your mockup, but it's worth mentioning
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They would be tinted if they are a selected item
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07-29-2020, 04:24 AM
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#96
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no, area selected objects do not and should not get tinted like normally selected objects.
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07-29-2020, 04:41 AM
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#97
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ferropop
This is how I envision tinting with respect to both Active Track Selection (initial state) and Area Selection (during move/duplication).
vs (current behaviour):
(yes I'm awful at Adobe Premiere haha).
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would be so good if items / ais / envelopes where not showed while dragging and just show the square (area selection borders) and a sign if possible or not to drop. Then after drop , then yes make it final ...
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07-29-2020, 04:50 AM
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^ mild disagree, i benefit from seeing the outline of the objects being copied. i do agree that these should just be ghosts, though, and not playable by the play cursor until they are dropped.
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07-29-2020, 04:58 AM
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#99
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Quote:
Originally Posted by deeb
would be so good if items / ais / envelopes where not showed while dragging and just show the square (area selection borders) and a sign if possible or not to drop. Then after drop , then yes make it final ...
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But if you have selected more than one items or envelopes from various tracks, how would you know where to drop it ? Especially moving envelope shapes, it's nice to see the shape you're moving to another place. For example i want to paste multiple times a Saw shape with 1/32 speed, between some other shapes with 1/8 speed.
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07-29-2020, 05:12 AM
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I'm just bad at Premiere, i just want the backgrounds tinted.
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07-29-2020, 05:42 AM
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#101
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Vagelis
But if you have selected more than one items or envelopes from various tracks, how would you know where to drop it ?
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everything is the same , .. we know where it comes from (the visible and outlined source) , and while dragging just the area selection shape would be showed and signal of droppable or not) on the target. After the drop and if target is a valid droppable target then yes commit else do nothing / keep original area selection.
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07-29-2020, 05:49 AM
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#102
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mccrabney
^ mild disagree, i benefit from seeing the outline of the objects being copied. i do agree that these should just be ghosts, though, and not playable by the play cursor until they are dropped.
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well i agree with you! that is the only thing i would like and a sign of droppable or not - if is possible to combine with "the outline of the objects being copied" then great. Maybe a different dragging outline for the area selection state:
if dropppable then area selection borders in green
if not droppable then red .. something like that could work
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07-29-2020, 06:38 AM
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#103
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ferropop
This type of paste happens Regularly, and yeah eventually we might get "lock horizontal/vertical" when doing these types of things
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There are already mouse modifier actions for both media items and area selection to move (only) vertically, but not horizontally.
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07-29-2020, 08:51 AM
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#104
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We need to separate the idea of visual indicators for selected tracks,for dropping audio etc, and visual indicators for area selections. These features are not linked, and should not be.
I LOVE the idea of tinting selected track arrange backgrounds, for clarity. In my opinion, this is preferable to having a blinking cursor. Many other DAWs do it, and it's just SO clear and unambiguous.
But this feature, if implemented, should never be confused with target visualization for area selection drops. These are two completely different things, and melding them together won't work.
If you want to lock the area selection movement to the original tracks, then this is the FR. There's no need to tint tracks for something this basic.
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07-29-2020, 12:49 PM
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#105
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ramses
We need to separate the idea of visual indicators for selected tracks,for dropping audio etc, and visual indicators for area selections. These features are not linked, and should not be.
I LOVE the idea of tinting selected track arrange backgrounds, for clarity. In my opinion, this is preferable to having a blinking cursor. Many other DAWs do it, and it's just SO clear and unambiguous.
But this feature, if implemented, should never be confused with target visualization for area selection drops. These are two completely different things, and melding them together won't work.
If you want to lock the area selection movement to the original tracks, then this is the FR. There's no need to tint tracks for something this basic.
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Unless you do want to move a selection horizontally and vertically, and then it’s a wonderful visual aid across this scope of arrange window real estate -why not an option?
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07-29-2020, 12:51 PM
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#106
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As of +dev0729 you can theme the edit cursor where it crosses the last touched track via cursor_seltrack.png. If there is no theme image, the 3-pixel thick cursor will be used. We will eventually add an option for this, but only after it sits in development for a while, because if it's an opt-in option then fewer people will test the feature!
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07-29-2020, 12:57 PM
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#107
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Quote:
Originally Posted by schwa
As of +dev0729 you can theme the edit cursor where it crosses the last touched track via cursor_seltrack.png. If there is no theme image, the 3-pixel thick cursor will be used. We will eventually add an option for this, but only after it sits in development for a while, because if it's an opt-in option then fewer people will test the feature!
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So we won't see other implementation of this feature?
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07-29-2020, 01:11 PM
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#108
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Quote:
Originally Posted by vitalker
So we won't see other implementation of this feature?
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You can theme it however you want.
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07-29-2020, 01:20 PM
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#109
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Originally Posted by schwa
You can theme it however you want.
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Yeah, thank you. I meant rather something like blinking/flickering part of the edit cursor or something similar.
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07-29-2020, 01:55 PM
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#110
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Quote:
Originally Posted by schwa
As of +dev0729 you can theme the edit cursor where it crosses the last touched track via cursor_seltrack.png. If there is no theme image, the 3-pixel thick cursor will be used. We will eventually add an option for this, but only after it sits in development for a while, because if it's an opt-in option then fewer people will test the feature!
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Thank you very much ! I cleared mine out (sans the pink) and I'm back to a straight line like the good old days. Thank you for the option.
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07-29-2020, 03:33 PM
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#111
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If there is no theme image, the 3-pixel thick cursor will be used.
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Is it not better to only brighten up the cursor?
3 pixels thick cursor can be confuse with a very litte item and 3 pixels thick cursor is not accurate because the paste of an item will not be placed after the 3 pixels thick but inside the cursor.
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07-29-2020, 03:47 PM
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#112
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ovnis
Is it not better to only brighten up the cursor?
3 pixels thick cursor can be confuse with a very litte item and 3 pixels thick cursor it not accurate because the past of an item will not be placed after the 3 pixels thick but inside the cursor.
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I agree. I think it would be better from a user interface point of view to brighten that section rather than thicken it.
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07-30-2020, 01:40 PM
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#113
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bright good. thick bad.
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07-30-2020, 06:50 PM
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#114
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Quote:
Originally Posted by schwa
As of +dev0729 you can theme the edit cursor where it crosses the last touched track via cursor_seltrack.png. If there is no theme image, the 3-pixel thick cursor will be used. We will eventually add an option for this, but only after it sits in development for a while, because if it's an opt-in option then fewer people will test the feature!
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Thanks!
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07-30-2020, 11:36 PM
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#115
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Quote:
Originally Posted by schwa
As of +dev0729 you can theme the edit cursor where it crosses the last touched track via cursor_seltrack.png. If there is no theme image, the 3-pixel thick cursor will be used. We will eventually add an option for this, but only after it sits in development for a while, because if it's an opt-in option then fewer people will test the feature!
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Let me know specifically what you want testing, I will smash it after the weekend.
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07-31-2020, 03:45 AM
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#116
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Originally Posted by Win Conway
Let me know specifically what you want testing, I will smash it after the weekend.
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Me too
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