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I would love to see an option in the Track List to sort tracks by active/inactive status that would automatically move all inactive tracks to the bottom of the list or vice versa. I often get sessions from clients with tons of inactive tracks, and having to go through and select them individually and drag them down to the bottom is a pain.
When entering a manual nudge value (.005 ms for ex.) sometimes the actual nudge value applied is 500 ms. You can manually change it, but often it doesn't work properly
The new Digidesign 5.1 (and other) Down Mixer is great, but why no 5.0 version?!?
One can of course make a 'dummy' 5.1 bus and then use a 5.0 sub bus for a dia stem for example, but it would be much simpler if there was just a 5.0 version of the plug in
A built in macro utility that allows the user to create custom keyboard commands and multi command macros. There are a number of menu items in Pro Tools that have no keyboard command and cannot be easily accessed by utilities like Quickeys because they do not show up in the main menu. One example is Delete Active Group, which I use quite often to get rid of temporary groups I create in order to link tracks for simultaneous ...more »
A built in macro utility that allows the user to create custom keyboard commands and multi command macros. There are a number of menu items in Pro Tools that have no keyboard command and cannot be easily accessed by utilities like Quickeys because they do not show up in the main menu. One example is Delete Active Group, which I use quite often to get rid of temporary groups I create in order to link tracks for simultaneous panning. There are also many repetitive editorial functions that require multiple commands that can be automated using macros.
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The track IO window of multichannel tracks should have level and pan controls for every internal channel. This would allow rebalancing of the tracks without having to split to mono. Miniature faders and pan knobs with numeric entry are needed.
It would be nice to be able to undo AudioSuite processes and even modify them on clips, like offline process history in Cubase/Nuendo
MacPro with only one (!) Graphiccard supports:
7680 Pixel Width (3x Cinema''30 at 2560x1600)
ProTools HD 10.1.3 supports only:
5120 Pixel width limit for EDIT-window
4096 Pixel width limit for MIX-window (=83 Tracks)
Please enable full use of multi monitor-systems.
Especially since HDX1-2 allows 2-3 Graphiccards.
Greetings. I may have found a workaround. For locking to drop frame make sure your session start is set to 06:59:00:02 or before. Keep audio where it needs to be.Tested with Mac OS 10.6.8 PT 10.1.1 w/ Sinc I/O locked to dF LTC. Also tested with Mac OS 10.6.8 PT 10.0.1 w/ CP Toolkit, MOTU Traveler locked to dF LTC
Right now, when you Import Audio, on the dialog box where you have to choose 'New Track' or 'Clip List', you can use the shortcuts command-T or command-R (because it used to be the Region list) to choose one of those radio buttons. Similarly, when you open a session with missing audio, you can choose between the 'Skip all', 'Manually find', and 'Automatically find' radio buttons using command-S, command-M, and command-A, ...more »
Right now, when you Import Audio, on the dialog box where you have to choose 'New Track' or 'Clip List', you can use the shortcuts command-T or command-R (because it used to be the Region list) to choose one of those radio buttons. Similarly, when you open a session with missing audio, you can choose between the 'Skip all', 'Manually find', and 'Automatically find' radio buttons using command-S, command-M, and command-A, respectively. So, for "Shift..." (option-H), there should be similar shortcuts in the resulting dialog box for 'Earlier' and 'Later'. Please note these are radio buttons that cannot be programmed using Mac keyboard shortcuts. Thank you.
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For those of us without Icons, it would be great to have the option for intelligent, sticky output, send & insert windows - meaning that you could show one output window on your display (like a center channelstrip), but have it automatically switch to display the info for track you've selected, just like the elastic properties window does. This would make it SO much faster to adjust panning, send levels, or the EQ of ...more »
For those of us without Icons, it would be great to have the option for intelligent, sticky output, send & insert windows - meaning that you could show one output window on your display (like a center channelstrip), but have it automatically switch to display the info for track you've selected, just like the elastic properties window does. This would make it SO much faster to adjust panning, send levels, or the EQ of clips on different tracks, without having to click on that tiny button of a track, make the adjustment, close the window, then click on the next track, etc. It could be as simple as a button on the window or a preference: "Floating windows follow track selection", for example.
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I am still working with 8.1.1HD and I was thinking that it would be amazing to be able to modify groups "on the fly" by right clicking on the group name and press something like "update with current selection". That would make any selected tracks to become part of the group without having to go to the "modify" window and manually address this. Also, as I often make use of the "show only tracks in group" feature, to ...more »
I am still working with 8.1.1HD and I was thinking that it would be amazing to be able to modify groups "on the fly" by right clicking on the group name and press something like "update with current selection". That would make any selected tracks to become part of the group without having to go to the "modify" window and manually address this.
Also, as I often make use of the "show only tracks in group" feature, to navigate through a mix, it would be great to have an option like "update group with current tracks". This command would be helpful when one brings some group tracks only into view, but decides to add a new track to it. This command will update the group without even having to select any tracks.
To summarise, this request is for two new right-click menu options while on the groups list:
One to: "update group with current selection"
and one to: "Update Group with current tracks"
Not sure if these two need to be submitted separately in Ideascale. Please do let me know if you think that would be best.
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Since PT10 revealing/hiding volume curves across all tracks sometimes takes up to 10 seconds. This is somehow new behavior in PT10 and slows down editing workflow a lot. Please speed this up. In PT7-9 this was almost an instant function. Now the entire timeline freezes for 10 seconds in large sessions.
The idea is like that of track playlists where if you want to duplicate the regions on a track and put it on a new playlist so you can do some audiosuite processing and not hurt the original files, its not a problem. It'd be nice to be able to do the same for plugins. There could be a little pop down menu for the plugin chain that has the same options that the track playlists have (New, Duplicate, etc.). When you selected ...more »
The idea is like that of track playlists where if you want to duplicate the regions on a track and put it on a new playlist so you can do some audiosuite processing and not hurt the original files, its not a problem. It'd be nice to be able to do the same for plugins. There could be a little pop down menu for the plugin chain that has the same options that the track playlists have (New, Duplicate, etc.). When you selected "New" all the plugins would be cleared and a new plugin playlist would be up...You could still flip back to the old on and hear the old processing if you wanted. Or you could click duplicate and the same plugins would pop up on a new plugin playlist so you could make tweaks across multiple plugins and flip back and forth. It would be a great way to A/B different sets of plugin combinations.
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taking 2.0 mixes from 9.0.3 to layback to HDCAM
importing into 10.0.1 tone is fine
importing into 10.1.3 and the left channel has what sounds like TC bleed (2nd & 3rd order harmonics?)
reopen in 10.0.1 and no distortion
I use Vienna Ensemble Pro as my go to interface for external software synths. I also use Stylus Omnisphere, et al.
When I import aux tracks from another session, ProTools doesn't automatically reassign soft synth inputs.
Additionally, it doesn't automatically reassign midi channels to Vienna either.
This would be a HUGE time save. Thanks!
If you set your external device buffer size to, for example, 4096, load PT 10.1.2 (Windows) and try to play the song, instead of PT saying nicely that the buffer size is not supported (maybe already when you start PT) you get an error message saying "Assertion in ..\Mdie_TrackPlayer.cpp, line 476"
Please add this to Icon D-Control. Removing a send should work the same as removing an insert: pressing "Set to Default" and then pressing the appropriate insert select button on the channel strip.
Nearly everytime I open any session I get this annoying popup that says:
"Some paths were made inactive because they could not be assigned to existing path definitions.
Would you like to save a detailed report?"
I personally don't care about that matter, and just don't ever want to see this popup again.
Please give us the opportunity to get rid of it.
Newly, since Pro Tools 10 on MacOSX the screensaver does not maintain active when ProTools is in playback. Same with the "Set Monitors to Sleep". Both are invoked on demand but a playing ProTools always calls the monitors back to life after a second or two. I really enjoyed dark monitors for presentation purposes in postproduction. Like watching the whole scene or movie without having the computer screens disturbing ...more »
Newly, since Pro Tools 10 on MacOSX the screensaver does not maintain active when ProTools is in playback. Same with the "Set Monitors to Sleep". Both are invoked on demand but a playing ProTools always calls the monitors back to life after a second or two.
I really enjoyed dark monitors for presentation purposes in postproduction.
Like watching the whole scene or movie without having the computer screens disturbing the focus on the movie screen.
The fiddly and time consuming workaround now is to manually switch off the monitors by hand. :-(
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Auto cut selection tools to help removing unwanted audio like brith or click, I spend time to clean my Vocal, I would like to get tool to cut any audio I select.
Would be much easier to trace routings (and keep track of them) in a large session if the sends displayed the name of their destination channel, track or output (if there is one assigned) instead of the bus number. Nuendo and Cubase do this (see attached screenshot) and it saves me from constantly having to scroll around the mixer looking for the destination of "bus 57". When you click the send dropdown, it should still ...more »
Would be much easier to trace routings (and keep track of them) in a large session if the sends displayed the name of their destination channel, track or output (if there is one assigned) instead of the bus number. Nuendo and Cubase do this (see attached screenshot) and it saves me from constantly having to scroll around the mixer looking for the destination of "bus 57". When you click the send dropdown, it should still display the bus numbers, as well as any assigned destinations. If you have sends that are routed to multiple destinations, destination names could just be separated by a comma or slash, which could create some long names but I'd still rather see a truncated name on the send than a bus number.
It would be great to even extend this to channel input/output assignments when they're using busses. Physical inputs/outputs are labeled as such, but bus numbers are meaningless without knowing where they're going.
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Since the F5 through F10 keys are tool selector hot keys, the Esc key, which toggles between all the tools is not nearly as useful as it was 12 years ago when it was hot stuff! It could be useful again if there was a preference pane that let you pick which tools it could select. For instance, if I chose the esc key to toggle between the "selector" and the "Grabber" tools instead of toggling between all of them, then ...more »
Since the F5 through F10 keys are tool selector hot keys, the Esc key, which toggles between all the tools is not nearly as useful as it was 12 years ago when it was hot stuff!
It could be useful again if there was a preference pane that let you pick which tools it could select. For instance, if I chose the esc key to toggle between the "selector" and the "Grabber" tools instead of toggling between all of them, then I could program the Esc key into my logitech mouse, and then could save a lot of time and moving around during a long session. As it is now, I can't imagine anyone uses the Esc key for tool toggling (at least not since PT5.1)
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Logic Pro's Event List has a separate column that allows you to specify a MIDI channel for each MIDI event. This is extremely useful when working with virtual instruments such as EWQLSO that allow you to assign different articulations to different MIDI channels. By being able to assign MIDI channels at the note level in this way, everything is greatly simplified since a single instrument track will be able to handle multiple ...more »
Logic Pro's Event List has a separate column that allows you to specify a MIDI channel for each MIDI event. This is extremely useful when working with virtual instruments such as EWQLSO that allow you to assign different articulations to different MIDI channels. By being able to assign MIDI channels at the note level in this way, everything is greatly simplified since a single instrument track will be able to handle multiple articulations/channels. The current workaround is to create a separate instrument track (and plugin instance) for each articulation/channel, but this inflates track counts and complexity, especially for orchestral work.
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With HD system chasing 29.97DF LTC code. Get error "Audio processing could not complete due to conflicts with other CPU tasks or potential clocking issue. If this occurs often, verify your sync cables or try changing the hardware buffer size setting in the Playback Engine dialog. In most cases a larger buffer size will prevent the problem. (-9092). Chasing other frame rates is fine. Switching to another frame rate and ...more »
With HD system chasing 29.97DF LTC code. Get error "Audio processing could not complete due to conflicts with other CPU tasks or potential clocking issue. If this occurs often, verify your sync cables or try changing the hardware buffer size setting in the Playback Engine dialog. In most cases a larger buffer size will prevent the problem. (-9092).
Chasing other frame rates is fine. Switching to another frame rate and then back to DF will typically work as well but not always. Changing buffer settings does not help. Locking to Word Clock or Video doesn't matter.
Testing here has been on HD Native ProTools 10.1.1./10.1.2, OSX 10.6.8, MacPro 5,1 2x2.4, 10GB RAM.
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Have the ability to delete multiple playlists simultaneously instead of having to do it one at a time.
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