El_Capitan wrote:I thought Automation was supposed to be in version 8.5 ?
It helps to read stuff people post here now and then... or at least do a search
At least that way you'd know when and why ATs were scraped.
In any case, since it wasn't present, I'd like to see it in the next update to Orion.
Highly doubtful that's gonna happen... unless you're willing to wait for another year or two.
These Automation tracks would appear on the playlist, underneath the patterns area for each instrument. I would like to see spline based automation curves in this implementation.
The search on the Beta forum shows the first mention of the spline based event editor was sometime in October 2009, which is the same time the topic about replacing ATs was started, at least conceptually, so it all remained as a discussion about a possibility of a new event editor whether as separate as we have now, or more unified, apart from actually scraping the ATs off the board.
Some of the main concerns were:
1. Backward compatibility
2. Playlist clutter (yes, collapsing them and putting in a Playlist addition (like pattern automation looks like) that would hold ATs were suggested at some point)
3. Mixer/Master and effects events (since they don't show as tracks in playlist)
4. Automation precision
While there's a big demand for better automation system, these were the main show-stoppers for further implementations. Most of the solutions were merely workarounds, not real solutions, and would bring more work later on than, since in the case of backward compatibility, it would be needed to maintain 3 automation systems, instead of 1 or even 2.
So, if you have a good, concrete solid idea how it would/should work, do tell
The INSERT effects also would need to have their own automation channels or at least the ability to edit each insert effect's parameters on the automation track(s).
I'm sure Rich and Marcin would appreciate some elaborated concept of that idea (read previous).