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08-02-2010, 08:15 PM
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What Are Your TOP 3 Wishes For REAPER 4?
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Originally Posted by schwa
There will be a lot of new stuff in REAPER 4.0, but it won't be everything on everyone's wish list. REAPER development will continue after 4.0 at a similar pace to how it has continued after 3.0.
As for timing, we'll let you know when we have a better idea. At the moment, REAPER 4 is expected in 2010, but is more than a couple of months away.
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Alright folks, you heard it straight from the sock's mouth. If things go as planned, we'll have REAPER 4 sometime in 2010!
To celebrate the announcement, I thought some of us would enjoy a thread to brainstorm, discuss and share our TOP feature requests and wishes for R4.
The feature tracker is great for determining what most people want, but not what people want most. That's what I hope this thread might help do.
Here's my absolute TOP 3 feature requests for REAPER 4:
1) Ableton Live like Global Quantization for looping, live performance and truly rapid song creation/composing. If it's something easily accessible from the main window/transport (optionally) like Ableton, all the better but I'd be able to live with a sample accurate 'DynamicWait' time action that I build into my own custom actions.
VOTE: http://forum.cockos.com/project.php?issueid=2623
2) Integrated and seamless track and item FREEZE, ideally through interaction with the FX button. Also it should work correctly on multi-timbral VSTi's. For example if you have a MIDI item being sent to a VSTi on a different track, REAPER should be able to intelligently freeze the item/track even though the it has no FX of its own. If the devs could find a way to do some slick background rendering/freeze that could be even cooler (pun intended). The performance window would also be a good candidate for integration with freeze.
VOTE: http://forum.cockos.com/project.php?issueid=2673
3) More Media Explorer Love. Full track and item functionality (pan, reverse, playrate, FX, sends and routing etc.). Being able to select, preview and import only a portion of the file, proper preview for MIDI items, WYHIWYG (what you hear is what you get). Also the ability to have more than one instance open at a time side by side could be useful the same way two turntables side by side is.
Ok. Your turn!
(but no cheating, try to keep it to your top 3)
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08-03-2010, 12:01 AM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Mar 2010
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- GUI enhancements: Metering (See my signature), dual panners and surround panners, GUI completely user configurable (elements such as MCP, Video, etc all dockable and resizable anywhere).
- HUI Protocol fixed properly and/or CMLabs Standard mode protocol implemented.
- More of the great development currently occurring with takes.
Last edited by Dannii; 08-03-2010 at 12:09 AM.
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08-03-2010, 01:33 AM
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Human being with feelings
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1. MFX support
2. MIDI tabs
3. Area selection + improved takes system
4. Brice's UI
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08-03-2010, 01:41 AM
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The FR tracker has me pretty much covered. What you've written in this thread has me covered as well. But I do have 3 wishes so I am gonna use them...
1) Routing
Improvements in the routing system (tracks, plugins). Better-easier-clearer UI for setting up the routing (e.g. graphical nodes). More flexibility in so-called feedback routing to allow greater freedom e.g. with multi-out VSTis.
Specific FRs on routing:
a) Tracks retain their routing relationships even if their TCP order is changed
b) More flexibility on track<-->parent sends+receives when it comes to MIDI. Track A can send MIDI to track B, and B can send audio to track A, and this is not considered 'feedback' routing.
c) Warn or notify the user if actions performed (like re-arranging the tracks) would break existing custom routings.
2) Enhancements for composition and song-writing
Anything from chord charts, chord recognition, scales tools, guitar tabs, lyrics. Pattern-based modes, region enhancements, playlist...
3) Bold steps
v4 should be a bold step forward and dare to break some familiarity with previous versions in the sake of correcting past flaws or boosting productivity and work flow.
Last edited by Evan; 08-03-2010 at 08:11 AM.
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08-03-2010, 01:43 AM
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GUI / keyboard handling
My main and only wish is GUI/keyboard handling revamp.
Everything else will of course be sugar on top.
Currently there is a lot of problems with windows popping up at
unexpected places, changing sizes, getting hidden, keyboard focus
not being at the right place, windows eating certain keyboard input,
mapped actions needing to be set to "pass through" instead of being
always accessible by default, etc.
Once you start working faster (which is the reason I switched to
Reaper) these issues become more and more frustrating, as user
has to constantly take care of GUI, click here and there to gain
access to a certain function. Of course mouse users that create
lots of toolbars and controller users that map most of the important
stuff to another device don't notice this, but keyboard as a standard
computer interface is still being treated mostly as a text input device,
and this should really be changed. Of course it's better to use dedicated
hardware and controllers, but Reaper is famous for it's mobility and
efficiency, so using it only on a laptop should also be a breeze.
So to make Reaper 4 GUI even more user friendly it should:
Remember a global position and size for each element
the way user has set it (MIDI Editor for example should always open at the
same position, size, set of visible CCs/velocities with the same height, same
width, height and position eg. C3, not C0 of piano roll, etc.)
Introduce the ability to pin any window (always on top)
Detect screen resolution and number of screens
and adjust any invisible windows automatically (when removing another screen
for example) while preserving the previous setting
introduce screen sets for these GUI elements
Something like Logic, or any Adobe software GUI presets
Make keyboard input focus on functionality
and automatically allow text / number input when such a dialog is in
focus (for example the action "send keyboard input to VMK" is totally
useless, as a user needs to open the VMK first, than run the action.
Once activated it always overrides keyboard input when dialogs or
menus appear, which makes no sense.
The action should simply route A-Z to MIDI note messages, while
preserving all other unused buttons intact. Plug-in GUI and chain
should by default let all keyboard input go through and the function
send input to plug-in should only be used for plug-in registration,
and it's keyboard functions (preset search etc.), but in general these
are rare.
Native GUI
Each window has at least 20px of useless height for top bar (close,
minimize buttons etc.), should really be minimized or even removed
completely, just add native buttons for these functions that are small
and non intrusive, also mappable to keyboard. It will also look a lot
better
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Nothing what has not been suggested yet here, just needed to vent
my current frustration with GUI a bit in a hopefully constructive criticism.
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08-03-2010, 02:06 AM
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Human being with feelings
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1. Control Surface love that includes full HUI and a generic mode, and why not a combination of the two (i.e. tweakable HUI)
2. Integrated and seemless Track Freeze
3. a better take system, including support for multi-track takes/items
Yves
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08-03-2010, 02:11 AM
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Human being with feelings
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Quote:
Originally Posted by EricM
Native GUI
Each window has at least 20px of useless height for top bar (close,
minimize buttons etc.), should really be minimized or even removed
completely, just add native buttons for these functions that are small
and non intrusive, also mappable to keyboard. It will also look a lot
better
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Didn't you try: Properties->General->Advanced UI/System tweaks...->disable "Use large (non-tool) window frames for windows?
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08-03-2010, 02:16 AM
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The main important thing for me is : automation items !
... and also, finally, after four years of requests, one of the easiest things to implement : a correct volume automation curve (exponential).
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08-03-2010, 02:22 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jm duchenne
The main important thing for me is : automation items !
... and also, finally, after four years of requests, one of the easiest things to implement : a correct volume automation curve (exponential).
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How could I have forgotten that?! Automation items are a necessity for easy editing!
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08-03-2010, 02:26 AM
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08-03-2010, 03:05 AM
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Human being with feelings
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1. Midi editor tabs, as Sonar, where if you click in a single background note you don't change from clip.
2. Automation Clips.
3. Save piano roll state [named keys, drums] with the track, not for each clip.
(4. Phantom Clips or Copy by reference midi clips)
Until I don't have those Reaper is useless for me.
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08-03-2010, 03:09 AM
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Human being with feelings
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You do have 4., but it's halfways there (you need to save ghost file on the disk to be able to do it, the request here is to have ghosted items in-project).
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08-03-2010, 03:09 AM
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Human being with feelings
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1) Fully automatic hit composing in any style
2) Fully automatic arrangement
3) Fully automatic virtual studio musicians recording for that arrangement
4) Fully automatic mixdown/mastering
And if I may add a 5th:
5) 1 to 4 must be automatic batchjobs to create 1000 hits a night.
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08-03-2010, 03:15 AM
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Human being with feelings
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Quote:
Originally Posted by stupeT
1) Fully automatic hit composing in any style
2) Fully automatic arrangement
3) Fully automatic virtual studio musicians recording for that arrangement
4) Fully automatic mixdown/mastering
And if I may add a 5th:
5) 1 to 4 must be automatic batchjobs to create 1000 hits a night.
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Hahaha!
Leave that to Microsoft Songsmith!
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08-03-2010, 03:17 AM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Ipswich, UK
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Only three for me...
Surround sound panner integrated in the Mixer.
Surround sound (Multi channel) Meters for above.
Score display and editor.
That will do nicely.
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08-03-2010, 03:26 AM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Mar 2007
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More visual feedback for audio and midi
Mo betta midi sequencing
Fewer dialogs
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08-03-2010, 03:45 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by EvilDragon
Hahaha!
Leave that to Microsoft Songsmith!
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Meanwhile Songsmith became too expensive!
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08-03-2010, 04:07 AM
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I'm still very new to Reaper but I would say
1) Dual panning
2) EuCon protocol (or at least good MCU and HUI)
3) Easier automation drawing
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08-03-2010, 04:16 AM
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Human being with feelings
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tower Studio
3) Easier automation drawing
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Press Ctrl and you're in freehand drawing automation mode? :/
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08-03-2010, 04:20 AM
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Not what I would call "easy"
Logic is just so awesome for this.
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08-03-2010, 04:32 AM
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Care to showcase this with a video or something, please?
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08-03-2010, 05:00 AM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Somewhere else
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1. When a track in the TCP gets embiggened vertically, that the meter and controls get embiggened also.
2. A "don't suck" button - to be used during my composition sessions.
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08-03-2010, 05:15 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by EvilDragon
Care to showcase this with a video or something, please?
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Ok, well, it's my first time screen recording ever so excuse the big red "Demo Version" logo right in the middle of the video
http://www.towerstudio.net/reaper/logicautomation.mov
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08-03-2010, 05:23 AM
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Human being with feelings
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No LICEcap on a Mac
Voted for the FR, it's soooooo useful!!!
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08-03-2010, 05:31 AM
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08-03-2010, 05:35 AM
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Haha let's not go there
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08-03-2010, 05:42 AM
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Just kidding
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08-03-2010, 06:21 AM
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Human being with feelings
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Location: France
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1) Do not run unsoloed tracks
I'm so tired about those gaps ang glitches because of this missing feature.
Anytime my CPU's are overloaded by tracks I'm not focused on...what a workflow !
2) ReaDuck, or anything that could ease this task
To use it with ReaXComp and ReaEQ, since achieving ducking in Reaper is not really intuitive, since you have to navigate through sub sub menus...
A clear indicator on the track panel which shows that one track is sent or received...(why not, based on Brice's approach, a global routing inspector ?)
3) arrange option
For songwriters and arrangers, including free midi item positioning [url]http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=62268[url/], maybe this [url]http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=62420[url/], and anything that relates to midi composing and maybe wav sequencing (previewing samples)
(I did not, of course, mentionned item pitch-bend feature, colored regions,freeze options, etc...)
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08-03-2010, 06:26 AM
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Ah, this is an easy one.
1) UI tweaking and especially always-on-top/pin functionality!
2) Mixer tweaking e.g. dual-panners, VCA groups, routing matrix love, better grouping/linking (grouped objects should follow links also when automating and so on)
3) Better media management (backups, cleaner project folder, better mediabay with more info and so on; check out Cubase's way of doing this)
4) Proper Freeze and Ghost Copies (for both MIDI and audio) wouln't hurt
5) Edit groups + Take system love wouldn't hurt either, but I can live with as it is too heh.
6) Fix some weirdness on pan-pot/volume fader scales and allow envelopes to be drawn as user wishes (I mean to allow the user to change the scale for envelope lane or something; I want to be able to draw/edit e.g. +20 dB boosts by hand)
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08-03-2010, 06:43 AM
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Human being with feelings
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I only want big ones
1- Step sequencer and a patern editor (or a index for the pencil tool. Much like the FL Studio.
2- A session like view Ableton Live, or any other rapid composition tool that they can think of.
3- Staff view/input for midi.
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08-03-2010, 06:50 AM
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1. Edit Groups
Please for the love of god, we need to be able to edit multi-mic'd sources. Currently it is a huge pain in the ass to try and edit a drum kit or an acoustic guitar mic'd with a stereo pair, or an guitar amp and DI track. Item grouping just doesn't quite cut it unfortunately :/
2. Mouse Zone Editor
I really would love to be able to customize the mouse workflow in a way that feels more natural to me. A full blown mouse zone editor would allow stuff like global snap suspension which is an FR on it's own. Hopefully the editor will also allow you to assign different functions to the top and bottom half of items, so that marquee+time selection could be performed using the left mouse button.
3. Quick Punch Recording
So so so important, I constantly struggle without this. All we need to do for this feature is add a preference to "start recording for record enabled tracks on playback", and then discard those recordings if recording is never initiated during playback. This allows manual punch ins that store all the recorded data before and after the punch, so you can trim and crossfade freely without worrying about having punched in too late or punched out too early.
Honorable Mentions
4. Stepped Volume Faders
Not the end of the world but man is it ever ugly seeing Reaper step through volumes when dragging a fader, would be so much nicer if we could eliminate that second point behind the decimal altogether. No one needs -3.09db, -3.1db will do just fine, no one on earth can hear the difference between less than one tenth of a decibel...
5. Area Selection
For most things the time selection+marquee handles my needs fine, but this would still be a very serious improvement, especially from a visual standpoint.
6. Real Track Disable Function
Very handy for archiving tracks in a session that you might still need for later use, but want Reaper to ignore entirely and lock so you can't accidentally screw it up.
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08-03-2010, 07:01 AM
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Human being with feelings
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AdamWathan
6. Real Track Disable Function
Very handy for archiving tracks in a session that you might still need for later use, but want Reaper to ignore entirely and lock so you can't accidentally screw it up.[/i]
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Adam, what's the difference between this and making a macro to minimize, mute, and lock? Seems like the only piece missing is the ability to lock track height, unless you want to process muted tracks.
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08-03-2010, 07:15 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by run, megalodon
Adam, what's the difference between this and making a macro to minimize, mute, and lock? Seems like the only piece missing is the ability to lock track height, unless you want to process muted tracks.
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Doesn't lock all of the items or prevent them from being edited. Even locking items separately doesn't prevent most edits.
Just an easy option to "Disable track" is all I want, making a macro to make a hundred alterations to all the tracks settings is just not concrete enough or easily togglable.
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08-03-2010, 07:27 AM
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Human being with feelings
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1: proper ghostable, in-project containers/patterns for AUDIO (.reaparts)
2: Media Pool + Trimmer (for editing Media CUEs, etc)
3: fixing all the rounding issues + Sample Grid
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08-03-2010, 07:33 AM
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Human being with feelings
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1) Brice UI + other suggestions (in other words, make it more prettier and workflowabley)
2) Takes/Looping - Takes/Looping - Takes/Looping (stay in lanes, no renumber, option to make overlap continue from prior take # etc...)
3) Metering, proper pan law handling, mono tracks (that's probably 3 things all by themselves, but since I put them all next to 3) it only counts as one)
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08-03-2010, 07:47 AM
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08-03-2010, 08:24 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jm duchenne
The main important thing for me is : automation items !
... and also, finally, after four years of requests, one of the easiest things to implement : a correct volume automation curve (exponential).
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3 : and a PIP that works :-))
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08-03-2010, 11:58 AM
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Human being with feelings
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First off, THANKS!
Ok, so, I'm a former Mac person and have been using Reaper for the past couple of years on PC (sry Mac. I can't afford you any more). Haven't posted here, so the first thing I should say is THANK YOU for all those who have worked hard, and continue to work hard, to provide a stable, incredibly useful, and solid DAW.
Coming from Digital Performer, there are only 2 things that I really miss.
I do think at least one of these is a common desire from most people, at least from trolling threads for the last couple of years:
1)Audio Editor within Reaper - I know there's Reawave out there, but something that allows destructive/constructive/stretching editing of audio files would put Reaper over the top. I miss being able to drag a wav into a project and then quickly stretch/squish it to where I want it (plus other audio editing fun-times, like quickly applying/previewing effects on a sound file).
2)Being able to enter notes AND velocity in the piano roll at the same time (i.e., you click to enter a note like normal, but can make the rectangle taller or shorter to affect velocity) - I've searched high and low for something like the DP Drum editor that will allow this, and I'm continually surprised no one else has combined these two functions. I used to use the HELL out of it to fine tune complex drum patterns, and really do think lots of folks would find it useful too.
Thanks again. Reaper is friggin' SWEET!
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