ennixo wrote:One extremely cool feature I would like to see is envelopes (the actual song events + volume, pan) directly as lines and curves over the track (should work on audio tracks too). Theses curves, when recorder would certainly look like a big bunch of lines so envelope parts should be normalizable.
Over the tracks? This sounds like "Orion turning Acid" or something. And what could you possibly see happening under dozen or so of envelope lines, all intertwined with each other? And what about editing those same lines? Too much room for "whoops, just dragged the wrong one".
Automation Tracks (ATs for short), once their appearance in the Playlist is ironed, will do much better job.
In addition, the audiotracks may get some improvements :
- display as 2 tracks : the actual live instrument and the recorded part in order to mute one of those easily and to re-record also easily.
- loop creation : very important thing : with a position of the end of the loop time (the moment it restarts) and another position for the end of the sound (so that a open hit hat does not ends brutally at the end for example).
- fix the bug of the moving wave inside of the track when selecting (without grid).
1. What live instrument?
2. You're better off doing loops in an audio editor. Orion isn't really a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), but more an SSW (SoftSynth Workstation), and if you're serious about what you're doing, you'll have one editor at hand anyway, which you can very easily invoke for any audio material you're working with from the playlist with a simple right click of your mouse (and by designating the editor in the File-Preferences-Default Sound Editor)
3. Looks fine here