Preview Waveform with FX
Request:
I want the ability to see my waveform with FX applied. Doesn't have to be high-res or anything, I just want to be able to see the gist of what the FX are doing.
Benefits / Reasons :
I've run into two situations where this would be really helpful
1. Whenever I record interviews in loud or bassy places, it can be really hard to figure out where the words start and end, because the the bassy waveforms make everything look loud, even though I'm killing the bass via EQ at the item or track level. I prefer not to glue everything because of all the extra files. And finding stuff in spectrogram view is doable, but not particularly pleasant. So, having the ability to just see what the waveform looks like with an EQ applied would let me edit all these field interviews at the same pace I edit stuff from the studio.
2. I do a fair amount of teaching. Whenever I teach compression, I wind up gluing the same file a zillion times over with varying levels of compression to show the effects of threshold/ratio/knee/etc. It gets the point across, but its time consuming and so much less illustrative than watching the resultant waveform change in realtime (or anything faster than gluing and ungluing over and over again).
Implementation suggestion:
I think an action would do the trick.
"Preview post-fx waveform for selected item/track"
Happy to explain this further if needed.
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