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Old 08-21-2019, 10:10 AM   #321
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Maybe, I can revamp what those tweaks would be but since I don't use FIPM, I'd have to pull it up and use it to remind myself of what they were.
I would appreciate that, and I'm sure many others would too. During the course of this thread, I have been spending a lot of time in the Reaper Sandbox, testing suggested techniques, trying to piece together vague recommendations made by some posters and making sure I have my terminology on point.

Perhaps we can collectively create a tutorial that would give Reaper users some options with the take system.
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I would appreciate that, and I'm sure many others would too. During the course of this thread, I have been spending a lot of time in the Reaper Sandbox, testing suggested techniques, trying to piece together vague recommendations made by some posters and making sure I have my terminology on point.

Perhaps we can collectively create a tutorial that would give Reaper users some options with the take system.
I can give you a gist of it for the moment... It's similar to cubendo at least when I used it years back Their takes were very similar to FIPM but there were a couple differences:

1. A take always stays in it's lane.
2. With multiple takes, the only one that is audible is the one that is visible from the bottom looking up.

For #2 see below. Hopefully it makes sense, when "looking up" from the bottom, whichever take is exposed (with nothing under it) is the one that plays. We can also fade, resize, snip, clip, move to our heart's desire and things like splitting and resizing etc. are how we expose, hide which parts of which takes are audible. And obviously, splits are take independent.

So below, blue is audible first during playback, then purple, then green, then pink, then purple, then green, then blue, then pink, then green.



I'm far more used to and like the current reaper splits at this juncture but... the above is a pretty slick workflow that removes split containers from the picture entirely. What I don't have time to share right now (I'm at work) is the few caveats that prevent FIPM from working this way, one of them is that by default FIPM plays all takes regardless so that's the first feature addition needed.

There are a couple others though that I'm forgetting (and not sure how it would handle comps) - that said, it at least seems this could possibly solve a lot of complaints AND be less work for the devs because it's already close aka building on what we have vs tearing down and rebuilding things. YMMV.

Now something we lose with the above, is item FX covering all takes - another reason I YMMV like the existing container/split/take system.
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What I don't have time to share right now (I'm at work) is the few caveats that prevent FIPM from working this way, one of them is that by default FIPM plays all takes regardless so that's the first feature addition needed.
Yes, I suppose this is one way to get closer to what ferropop suggested with "Zones." FIPM (Free Item Positioning Mode, for those who are confused by this acronym) would get us in the ball park, IMO. But yeah, all takes play at once, so that's an issue.
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Yes, I suppose this is one way to get closer to what ferropop suggested with "Zones." FIPM (Free Item Positioning Mode, for those who are confused by this acronym) would get us in the ball park, IMO. But yeah, all takes play at once, so that's an issue.
Honestly, I never really understood the value of them being takes and all playing at once. I suppose there is a use case but seems like there is a much larger use case for them not to all play at once. Having to manually mute instead of some automatic method like I mentioned above does is not efficient at all.
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If you view vertical stacks of items in FIPM as "takes" then it makes sense for them to only play one at a time. But if you consider that you might want to align various items in ways where some overlap (and you want them to be heard), I guess FIPM has some advantage in that regard.

I'd much prefer if it had a lane-priority system similar to the example from Cubendo mentioned a few posts ago. Or yeah, use FIPM with "zones".
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Honestly, I never really understood the value of them being takes and all playing at once. I suppose there is a use case but seems like there is a much larger use case for them not to all play at once. Having to manually mute instead of some automatic method like I mentioned above does is not efficient at all.
Yeah, I don't know how it's useful for them to play at once. I thought it was a bug.

There would need to be some additional tweaks to get this to work for punch-ins.

It's funny... there are all these options with takes and tracks, but none of them quite nail it.
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Yea, I thought it was a little odd too. But the containers/splits pretty much nail it for me (like you guys didn't already know that). I could find one or two small gripes but I won't remember until I hit one - it's fairly minor though. I also have non-default settings that make it work for me but those aren't related to most people's complaints.
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Ok I did a bunch of work...here's how I see it:


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Old 08-23-2019, 01:52 PM   #329
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Ok I did a bunch of work...
No reply in over 24 hours. I think you silenced the critics.

Nice work. As I said earlier, this would be a great addition to Free Item Positioning Mode. I hope Cockos takes look at this proposal!
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I 'usually' don't chime in except for things that are inaccurate, misrepresented or misunderstood which obviously isn't always the case. I would add though, that for anything we think up as improving FIPM, there should be some mindfulness and priority on how difficult various ideas would be to implement - just a warning, it's almost always more involved than it looks on the surface (coming from a veteran programmer).
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Changing FIPM so that overlapping items dont play would be a problem for me - having overlapping items all play is the whole point of FIPM as I use it.
Fixing takes within their own system would be great - but I would not want to see another system (FIPM) sacrificed to do that
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Changing FIPM so that overlapping items dont play would be a problem for me - having overlapping items all play is the whole point of FIPM as I use it.
Fixing takes within their own system would be great - but I would not want to see another system (FIPM) sacrificed to do that
Contanierized takes have a setting to play all or play active, FIPM needs a setting to play all or play active in some form, that's the simpler more reasonable path, such as a different "FIPM mode".

Containerized takes aren't broken btw, they just aren't for everyone.
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Contanierized takes have a setting to play all or play active, FIPM needs a setting to play all or play active in some form, that's the simpler more reasonable path, such as a different "FIPM mode".

Containerized takes aren't broken btw, they just aren't for everyone.
that option for FIPM would be good for me too
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I don't think it should be connected to FIPM at all, should just be a lanes implementation ala Cubase etc.
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I 'usually' don't chime in except for things that are inaccurate, misrepresented or misunderstood which obviously isn't always the case. I would add though, that for anything we think up as improving FIPM, there should be some mindfulness and priority on how difficult various ideas would be to implement - just a warning, it's almost always more involved than it looks on the surface (coming from a veteran programmer).
Agreed, it's so easy for us to say "they just need to xyz". Also a CompSci grad here haha, so when I proposed all of this I'm being 100% mindful of that, and I went to great lengths to ensure that almost everything here is leveraging existing functionality rather than having to build anything from scratch. The idea of Zone Markers is essentially exactly that of Splits (almost like Virtual Splits), but one that supersedes item-level splits and operates on a layer above them. In every other way they are the same as item splits, and the way active take selection would work in the exact way it currently does. The only "new" thing here would be lanes...but even lanes are just akin to tracks in a folder.
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No reply in over 24 hours. I think you silenced the critics.

Nice work. As I said earlier, this would be a great addition to Free Item Positioning Mode.

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I don't think it should be connected to FIPM at all, should just be a lanes implementation ala Cubase etc.

So Keith, I guess you're a critic.

If someone is strongly opposed to any change, that's one thing. But if someone is asking for clarification or is saying "I don't understand what benefits it brings", why say that "there's pushback" or that "there are critics".

And just because someone hasn't posted anything contrary in 24 hours, that doesn't mean the idea is perfect and should be implemented. I can still foresee potential problems implementing it into Reaper especially if the "things" within the "zones" aren't actually items as Reaper sees them. Reaper's overall system kind of works based on items.

Since the devs aren't chiming in, and I don't see anything like this in the prereleases, there's no indication it or anything like it will happen. The best that can be done is to further elaborate, and also to consider a way to make it work within the boundaries of which Reaper operates (such as the fact items will have to be used within the system somehow).

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The idea of Zone Markers is essentially exactly that of Splits (almost like Virtual Splits), but one that supersedes item-level splits and operates on a layer above them.
That's the kind of thing I'm talking about, what this sort of thing might mean for the devs to implement. Another layer "above items" might work, or not. But at least it's a place to start. Then the devs can look at the info without having to say anything, and decide if it's worth engaging when they have enough info.
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So Keith, I guess you're a critic.

If someone is strongly opposed to any change, that's one thing. But if someone is asking for clarification or is saying "I don't understand what benefits it brings", why say that "there's pushback" or that "there are critics".

And just because someone hasn't posted anything contrary in 24 hours, that doesn't mean the idea is perfect and should be implemented. I can still foresee potential problems implementing it into Reaper especially if the "things" within the "zones" aren't actually items as Reaper sees them. Reaper's overall system kind of works based on items.

Since the devs aren't chiming in, and I don't see anything like this in the prereleases, there's no indication it or anything like it will happen. The best that can be done is to further elaborate, and also to consider a way to make it work within the boundaries of which Reaper operates (such as the fact items will have to be used within the system somehow).



That's the kind of thing I'm talking about, what this sort of thing might mean for the devs to implement. Another layer "above items" might work, or not. But at least it's a place to start. Then the devs can look at the info without having to say anything, and decide if it's worth engaging when they have enough info.
James, in what I proposed an item is an item in every single currently-implemented way with 2 differences:

1. the takes are in lanes ala every other DAW
2. instead of Splits determining the bounds of takes, it's a new thing I'm calling Zone Markers.

I think that's as clear and simple as it can get. Everything works the same with those 2 exceptions.


I think in the end, all I'm saying is that using Splits as the boundaries for takes is, yes, functional kind-of, but this is better. Splits carries with it so many issues that this resolves.
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Well if you think you've articulated your idea to the best of your ability, including how the devs might implement it, maybe it's time to make a feature request (on the feature requests forum).
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In my opinion, an overhaul of FIPM would be solve many of Reaper's take system complaint. An essential feature would be an autogroup mode for multimic recordings, especially useful when recording various takes of drums: yes, we can use an SWS action for that, but I think it should be native, because I've found a couple of issues that are very annoying, and both of these could be solved with a dedicated, multitake editing mode in FIPM (basically, Protools style playlists)

Issue #1



I grouped various drums takes across tracks, and if I accidentally mute/unmute one item (using the M button on the label)without selecting it before, only that very item will be muted/unmuted, while the other ones (that are part of the same take) will be not affected. This can cause big problems if I don't notice that right away, especially if I have many takes and tracks.


Issue #2



If I move a grouped item up or down in FIPM , only that very item will be moved. This is annoying, because I'll have to manually move each grouped item if, for example,I want to crossfade them with items from other takes.
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If someone is strongly opposed to any change, that's one thing. But if someone is asking for clarification or is saying "I don't understand what benefits it brings", why say that "there's pushback" or that "there are critics".

And just because someone hasn't posted anything contrary in 24 hours, that doesn't mean the idea is perfect and should be implemented.
James, that was a joke. Did you see my "wink" emoji?

Of course, I don't equate those people with "critics". That statement was also meant to be a friendly poke at Karbomusic because we've had some constructive arguments.

And OF COURSE I don't think that there's some weird 24 hour rule for implementation!

Carry on...
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Old 08-25-2019, 02:13 PM   #341
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Interesting, on more than one occasion (in take based threads) I've mentioned that I think that Justin was ahead of the curve with that idea. I can't say it is perfect, nothing is but I do think there is some chance that many are so mentally accustomed to stacked takes and no splits that it can be incredibly difficult to get that light bulb to go off.

If one searches my posting history back far enough, they'll find very similar complaints from me (because I came from similar DAWs myself), then one day it hit me and I haven't looked back since. If I didn't sincerely and truly feel there is value being missed by some worthwhile percentage of users, I wouldn't be investing time in these threads.

The best advice I can offer is that when asking for improvements in the take system, learn what the moving parts are, their proper terminology etc. then work the suggestions off of that foundation. Far too often I see complaints about takes in containers when the improvement being asked is better served in the takes in lanes feature, or about takes when it is better served speaking about comps, or by adding playlists/track versions which to me is a great addition to, not in place of.
^^ THIS!

Coming from Nuendo, I had an allergic reaction to the Takes system in Reaper. It's confusing if you come from another platform. However, after I decided to digest the Takes (and combine with Lanes View and also toggle with Options: New recording creates new media items in separate lanes (layers) (just because you recorded with Takes doesn't mean you can't use the separate lanes feature to glean info about x-fades etc).

I think I have it down now where I may be editing faster after a couple days of digesting Reaper's Takes system than I had with years of Cubase experience.

But yeah... it can be a hard pill to swallow and let go of years of doing things a certain way.
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Many thanks for pointing out that the thread title is just a pile of .... prejudice.

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OK. I'm not going to lie. I haven't read everything and I have no plans to but I have a few questions based on skimming thru.

From what I can see (and I've mentioned this before) the issue is NOT with the takes system. But it's that many people don't want takes. They want playlists.

IOW - Takes are based on Items. Items are containers of a specific size. So it's a bit clunky to work with multiple performances that are forced to be in these limited containers.

So my solution (not that I have a vote) is to create Playlists in addition to Takes. Not instead of. So that takes work exactly as they do now. Leaving no one unhappy who likes the current system and have found their own workarounds.

Playlists can be based on Tracks. NOT Items. So the size of a container is removed from the situation. Every playlist can have it's own lane and they can all have multiple items that all vary in size.

Basically, it's like having multiple tracks all assigned to one track where only one of them plays at a time. They all can have varying Item FX but they all share the same Track FX and track automation etc.

So the question I have for the group is - Would this satisfy everyone?
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OK. I'm not going to lie. I haven't read everything and I have no plans to but I have a few questions based on skimming thru.

From what I can see (and I've mentioned this before) the issue is NOT with the takes system. But it's that many people don't want takes. They want playlists.

IOW - Takes are based on Items. Items are containers of a specific size. So it's a bit clunky to work with multiple performances that are forced to be in these limited containers.

So my solution (not that I have a vote) is to create Playlists in addition to Takes. Not instead of. So that takes work exactly as they do now. Leaving no one unhappy who likes the current system and have found their own workarounds.

Playlists can be based on Tracks. NOT Items. So the size of a container is removed from the situation. Every playlist can have it's own lane and they can all have multiple items that all vary in size.

Basically, it's like having multiple tracks all assigned to one track where only one of them plays at a time. They all can have varying Item FX but they all share the same Track FX and track automation etc.

So the question I have for the group is - Would this satisfy everyone?
Yes.


And I read that whole thing with your voice in my head.

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OK. I'm not going to lie. I haven't read everything and I have no plans to but I have a few questions based on skimming thru.

From what I can see (and I've mentioned this before) the issue is NOT with the takes system. But it's that many people don't want takes. They want playlists.

IOW - Takes are based on Items. Items are containers of a specific size. So it's a bit clunky to work with multiple performances that are forced to be in these limited containers.

So my solution (not that I have a vote) is to create Playlists in addition to Takes. Not instead of. So that takes work exactly as they do now. Leaving no one unhappy who likes the current system and have found their own workarounds.

Playlists can be based on Tracks. NOT Items. So the size of a container is removed from the situation. Every playlist can have it's own lane and they can all have multiple items that all vary in size.

Basically, it's like having multiple tracks all assigned to one track where only one of them plays at a time. They all can have varying Item FX but they all share the same Track FX and track automation etc.

So the question I have for the group is - Would this satisfy everyone?
Kenny take a look at my post though -- it gives us the strengths of Both! Immediate and easy take selection for quick comps (Reaper's take system), and the independence-and-not-destroying-the-cohesiveness-of-your-takes of Playlists.
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it can be a hard pill to swallow and let go of years of doing things a certain way.
But you are assuming (like Karbomusic and others) that people don't like the take system because they are used to a different system.

I'm used to REAPER's take system. I've been using it for at least 8 years. And I still think it can be better.

Contrary to the thread title (and some of the discussion here), I don't think Reaper's take system sucks. I do think that it can be made more efficient and easier to use during a tracking session.

So can we dispense with "muscle memory" and "it's confusing if you come from another platform" arguments? While some people say "give us PT playlists" or "Logic does it this way", the majority of discussion in this thread has been on how to make the system better, not how to make it like other DAWs.

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I find Reaper's take system is totally fine as long as I follow a few guidelines for myself:

1. Don't even bother with 'show takes in lanes'. Just know your takes are stacked on top of each other in the track, and don't expand them. You just get into a mess by looking at them all.

2. Use keystrokes to split and comp takes. All you really need are 'S' for split, 'T' for next take, and 'Shift+T' for previous take.

3. For multi track instruments like drums, before you start comping highlight all the media items and press G to group them all together.
Then your splits, fades, and take selections will be the same across all channels/tracks.

4. Get handy with mouse with changing crossfade points and crossfade types, though this isn't even usually necessary for vocals .

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I find Reaper's take system is totally fine as long as I follow a few guidelines for myself:

1. Don't even bother with 'show takes in lanes'. Just know your takes are stacked on top of each other in the track, and don't expand them. You just get into a mess by looking at them all.

2. Use keystrokes to split and comp takes. All you really need are 'S' for split, 'T' for next take, and 'Shift+T' for previous take.

3. For multi track instruments like drums, before you start comping highlight all the media items and press G to group them all together.
Then your splits, fades, and take selections will be the same across all channels/tracks.

4. Get handy with mouse with changing crossfade points and crossfade types, though this isn't even usually necessary for vocals .
That's pretty much my workflow too.
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I find Reaper's take system is totally fine as long as I follow a few guidelines for myself ...
Saving this to re-read before I next time might be in a situation to use takes.
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Saving this to re-read before I next time might be in a situation to use takes.
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It's great, it just has a few quirks that I highlight above and could be improved to a point of making it the best comping system out of any DAW>
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Saving this to re-read before I next time might be in a situation to use takes.
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Hi Michael,

How often you use takes? I'm interested in hearing about everybody's work habits and work flow. For instance, just about every session I have with clients requires me to use the take system, so it's nearly a daily occurrence.
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^Pretty much all the time. The last major project I did was about 90 tracks - drums were 12 tracks (12 mics), 12 songs and probably 10 takes per song with punchins etc for just drums/bass. First up was slip edits/comps et al for drums on all 12 songs.

Then we did overdubs with anywhere from 3-50 takes per track. Usually lower take counts than 50 LOL but always takes and punchins everywhere. I probably have a screenshot of that project somewhere.
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Here's a one-track GIF from the project, I made it (for this thread) to demonstrate how terrible expanded takes are and the value of collapsed, since they were collapsed when I did them, I had no problems whatsoever working with this track and these hundreds of items/splits, it was literally easy- what is this track? One of my guitar solos, it's a long outro and I had not come up with anything to play, so I just noodled for an hour randomly dropping punches here and there with zero regard to splits or where recording started.


Usually, I'd never need that many but here I specifically wanted to go crazy comping. Note this is a single track...

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If you are interested in the details that ^project aka more than bedroom stuff see here: https://forum.cockos.com/showthread....ight=God+Candy
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If you are interested in the details that ^project aka more than bedroom stuff see here: https://forum.cockos.com/showthread....ight=God+Candy
Thanks for the GIF and link to your forum post. Yup, not bedroom stuff! I may have to share some pictures of my next full band session at the studio, though I mainly have smaller sessions booked this week.
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Thanks for the GIF and link to your forum post. Yup, not bedroom stuff! I may have to share some pictures of my next full band session at the studio, though I mainly have smaller sessions booked this week.
By all means, love sharing with people here!
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Hi Michael,
How often you use takes?
I used them exactly once (as described in a massage above).
This kind of work is not what I like to do. I use Reaper for Live playing (as an instrument) and for live recording full bands. (And I of course don't use any other DAW, ever.)

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Yes indeed.

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OK. I'm not going to lie. I haven't read everything and I have no plans to but I have a few questions based on skimming thru.

From what I can see (and I've mentioned this before) the issue is NOT with the takes system. But it's that many people don't want takes. They want playlists.

IOW - Takes are based on Items. Items are containers of a specific size. So it's a bit clunky to work with multiple performances that are forced to be in these limited containers.

So my solution (not that I have a vote) is to create Playlists in addition to Takes. Not instead of. So that takes work exactly as they do now. Leaving no one unhappy who likes the current system and have found their own workarounds.

Playlists can be based on Tracks. NOT Items. So the size of a container is removed from the situation. Every playlist can have it's own lane and they can all have multiple items that all vary in size.

Basically, it's like having multiple tracks all assigned to one track where only one of them plays at a time. They all can have varying Item FX but they all share the same Track FX and track automation etc.

So the question I have for the group is - Would this satisfy everyone?
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OK. I'm not going to lie. I haven't read everything and I have no plans to but I have a few questions based on skimming thru.

From what I can see (and I've mentioned this before) the issue is NOT with the takes system. But it's that many people don't want takes. They want playlists.

IOW - Takes are based on Items. Items are containers of a specific size. So it's a bit clunky to work with multiple performances that are forced to be in these limited containers.

So my solution (not that I have a vote) is to create Playlists in addition to Takes. Not instead of. So that takes work exactly as they do now. Leaving no one unhappy who likes the current system and have found their own workarounds.

Playlists can be based on Tracks. NOT Items. So the size of a container is removed from the situation. Every playlist can have it's own lane and they can all have multiple items that all vary in size.

Basically, it's like having multiple tracks all assigned to one track where only one of them plays at a time. They all can have varying Item FX but they all share the same Track FX and track automation etc.

So the question I have for the group is - Would this satisfy everyone?
YES PLEASE!!

This would open up the possibilities for people to work the way they prefer (which is what I believe we all love about Reaper and it's customizability) instead of being forced into one work flow that doesn't fit all. I think there has been enough debate about this to warrant introducing playlists, while keeping the takes system for those who prefer it (or work with a hybrid of both, which could be very interesting).

If this is possible from a technical standpoint, it would literally appease everyone. If playlists do become an option, please add the ability to include a track's items when grouping tracks!! ��

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So the question I have for the group is - Would this satisfy everyone?
Yes! I actually prefer REAPER's take system to the PT-style playlist, if I have to choose from either of the two. But the combination of those together would be amazing.
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