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Old 06-11-2009, 01:42 AM   #1
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Default Reaper, the only DAW with annoying track color selection.

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I posted this and it got moved to the beta section. I thought I'd put it here and let that one get buried because v3 is out now.

I want to be able to set a (some key)+click and have the simple color pallet (left most on the image) drop down. And of course you could select multiple tracks and just click any of them to get the menu. right clicking gradient would let you select the 2 colors.

I don't honestly care too much about the big "advanced track management" Just a very clean minimal access to a palette would be wonderful.

the rest is more like ultra ultra advanced templating. Also predefined text that, if you name a track the text you added to the advanced track management window, it will apply a template to the track (color(s), routing, fx chains, track icon, automation knobs, etc).

Now that I'm bigger, I think a better idea would be to include "if" and "then" statements to actions. you could highlight one or all of tracks and apply something like this:

(this would be only one action, btw)

IF
track name = guitar
THEN
apply OnTrack template: guitar_template
IF
track name = guitar1
THEN
apply OnTrack template: guitar_template1
IF
track name = kick
THEN
apply OnTrack template: kick_template
IF
track name = sn top
THEN
apply OnTrack template: snaretop_template



and so on and so forth...
another new action would have to be added (to make it really cool)
"undo last applied template"

so you can add a few shortcuts to various mixes
we'll assume these aren't already mapped for my sake (no, I don't have every mapped shortcut memorized)

ctrl+alt+1 = custom action 1 - apply (if/then template) action 1 to selected tracks
ctrl+alt+2 = custom action 2 - apply (if/then template) action 2 to selected tracks
ctrl+alt+3 = custom action 3 - apply (if/then template) action 3 to selected tracks
ctrl+alt+z = custom action 4 - undo last applied template

Last edited by pixeltarian; 06-11-2009 at 01:49 AM.
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