Some nice ideas! HJV wrote : >>Come to think of it (building on what we were recently discussing about >an audio mixer window that sizes to fit all faders on your screen) - instead >of patching windows to make screensets, how about some kind of custom >>desktop where you drag whatever elements you want - for example an >>arrange, matrix and event list - without all the window frames and sizeable to get maximal >use of screen space. > >Nice idea... Building on that, how about: have the usual windows, >screensets & stuff, but in addition have a new window type called >e.g. "multi window". In such a window you can open windows of other >types (like arrange, matrix, etc). Yes. Yo have a pallette and drag a matrix or audio mixer or whatever, and resize it as you see fit with automatic formating options. The subwindows in such a >multi-window can be zoom/SPL-linked, so that if you zoom/scroll, both >the arrange and matrix zoom/scroll 'in sync'. With a content-catch >for each subwindow, you could have an arrange with two matrix's, >where each matrix shows a different sequence, but they're always >properly aligned with the arrange window. Ditto for an arrange with >2 sample editors, or whatever you can come up with. That is SO necessary. How can you sync two audio files - imagine drums and bass, both loosely played. However, having a two or three synced sample editors which zoom together and move together would be so nice. >You would be able to split a window in 2 halves (like you can in e.g. >Word or Excel) by simply dragging a horizontal/vertical divider-line, >and fill each 'frame' (subwindow) with its own window-type -- and of >course such subwindows could again be split in two, either >horizontally or vertically. This would allow you to create almost >any window layout you could think of. I like your original idea better which has the same functionality - two views in the same window - but a custom made window with minimal window frames (Metasynth) or none - just a blank full page music desktop - and then you load the items. These then will be your screensets. Each window view replaces a screenset. >AFAIC the window would have no menu bar (otherwise you'd end up with >maybe 4 different menubars in all subwindows), but a right-click >(control-click) on a subwindow would bring up the relevant popup menu >under the mousepointer. yes. >About the mixer: why not have a bunch of options to show/hide certain >parts of the mixer strips? Like "hide sends", "hide inserts", etc. >This would dramatically increase the number of faders you can fit on >a screen. And of course, as soon as you show e.g. the inserts, the >2nd row of mixer strips should shift down automatically, to >accommodate the now taller strips above it (and the pother way >around). The faders should be objects (in the sense of object oriented programming). I remember back in 1995 when I was reading about Logic and its object oriented approach - an approach which was revolutioneary 8 years ago, but in need of some updating now. The subobjects of an audio fader are the meter, mono/stereo, fader, sends, etc. Why waste the CPU power on meters and moving faders when you're working on an entirely different track. >And have an 'auto-wrap' preference, so that mixer strips that fall >off the right end of the screen, automatically wrap to the 2nd row. A command to auto-fit across the screen, or in 1, 2, 3 or 4 rows. Maybe something for multiple monitors too where you can have all the VSTi's available, and another the audio tracks. etc.