Before I ascend to the summit of Mt. Soapbox here... I have a question/suggestion.
When I started to learn DAW basics (meaning the standard things that are required i.e. non-convenience features) I started to 'build' one in my head. It's a completely romanticized vision that would probably only be productive to me or someone baring my DNA and I've recently discovered that some people have come to call an identical vision REAPER; the irony of this is that I CANNOT break it's learning curve and therefore use it productively. Never happy with what you (think you) want I guess.
Anyway, I have a notebook full of DAW/VST/VSTi concepts I've been jotting down for the day I wake up and find that I'd been blessed with DSP Coding wisdom from upon high. Some of them are pretty standard things I didn't know were standard when I jotted them and others are pretty out there. I also have a feeling that many of them may already exist in other DAW's under different titles/descriptions. Such as Universal Piano Roll where you can jump from generator to generator without actually opening and closing the windows. My vision has a ton of convenience options and that vision is narrowed by the fact that its purpose was limited to only one plugin and the use of multiple instances of it. However I have a lot of them, yeah most will probably end up being reveled as redundant.
So here is my suggestion.
I can take this notebook and go through them picking and choosing based on Orion and my knowledge of it so far and we take them put them under the microscope and figure out if they are lead or gold. Then just to be sure apply a little alchemy to the lead and see if we can't turn it into gold... Anyone else think this could be fun? I know it would finally purge me of those nagging 'possibilities' as well as teach me more about Orion in the process.
I love Orion for the same logic behind why I also love Reason. Redundancy is the foe! I will admit that I am like a lot of people in this world today - addicted to instant gratification, but I'm also a lot the people humans were before we devolved into our Plastic-Microwave-Drive Thru McSociety; I thrive on learning. There is a reason why Propellerhead didn't include a PCF effect (until the recent Aligator anyway but there's a logic behind its existence too - combinating something like it is an exorcize in near futility and you'd be better off working on the theory of Everything. I know because I built such a combinator for Reason 5 and following all the wires and chains through all the scrolling and stacked modules leads you towards a mental breakdown) like the one found in ReBirth - because the ingredients are right there in the kitchen you just have to do a little combinatoring to whip it up...you know like they did back in the day when studio time was about 65 dollars an hour plus a premium if you wanted an engineer to build those chains for you.
So is the spirit of my suggestions and what I'm asking to be done to them. Also it could be considered that we could take the suggestion that were made about Orion on other forums and discuss them here as well and apply a bit of preventive medicine to them before they start popping up over and over again and we find ourselves treating symptoms instead of the cause. The resulting information could have untold future benefits in other areas such as 'The Initiative to Reduce Forum Drama Directly Associated With the Eternal Digital Audio Workstation Debate'
And before we try it; put this post under the same Anti-Redundancy microscope and let me know if the process works.
PS:
Richard should include a Mayan Calendar countdown in the transport so we know how much time we have left to finish a song before the world ends... j/k (seriously that was a joke)
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just fixing some wording trying to make it easier to follow