Matrix Window Feature Requests
Posted: 02 Oct 2019 04:13
Hi All,
It's been a little while since I've been active here, a couple of house moves and never ending setting up of a new studio has kept me busy, but I'm up and running with DTouch for Cubase V2 on a new PC and have a couple of feature requests related to the Matrix window.
Right now I'm working on a new large midi orchestral composing template utilizing my main PC, which will run Cubase and DTouch, and several VSL VE Pro slave machines. The template uses VE Pro rack instruments and hundreds of midi tracks and for composing/producing purposes I'm going to use DTouch for track navigation and Expression Map selection on my 27" Acer screen. The Matrix window is perfect for track navigation and selection, much better IMO than the iPad/Lemur templates that a lot of Cubase composers use.
One problem I'm having is that the tracks that I want to select in the Matrix are midi tracks and they are all displayed in a dimmed/dark color. From what I've read in the manual they're dimmed because midi tracks don't have an output bus assigned. Could we have an option to have midi tracks show up in the Matrix as regular colored tracks, not dimmed?
Another issue that affects both the midi template and also my mixing template, especially on my 46" screen, is that most of the tracks in the Matrix are at the top and the Matrix window can't be resized. One of the things I've learned over the years working on the large screen is to keep the majority of touch controls in the lower half of the screen, especially controls that need to be touched and dragged, like volume and pan. It would be nice if the Matrix window could be resized like the floating mixer and integrated Matrix, or even if the integrated Matrix could be detached and used on its own. But then it occurred to me that the current Matrix could be much better with an fairly simple update (I'm assuming it would be simple of course!): How about an option to fill the Matrix tiles from the bottom up, left to right, instead of the top down left to right like it does now? Most of my mixing projects don't fill more than half of the Matrix window, which means that the lower half would be filled instead of the top half. And we could still use track visibility to manage larger track count projects, with the available tracks always filling the lower half.
If the option of filling the tracks from the bottom up was enabled, I think the order of the buttons on the left and right side of the Matrix window should also be reversed. On the right side the lowest button would be Level, then Pan, Fine, etc. On the left the lowest button would be Channel Strip, then Send 1, Send 2, etc. This would be a really big boost to the usability of the Matrix window, especially when using it as a mixing tool on a large touchscreen.
Thanks,
Michael
It's been a little while since I've been active here, a couple of house moves and never ending setting up of a new studio has kept me busy, but I'm up and running with DTouch for Cubase V2 on a new PC and have a couple of feature requests related to the Matrix window.
Right now I'm working on a new large midi orchestral composing template utilizing my main PC, which will run Cubase and DTouch, and several VSL VE Pro slave machines. The template uses VE Pro rack instruments and hundreds of midi tracks and for composing/producing purposes I'm going to use DTouch for track navigation and Expression Map selection on my 27" Acer screen. The Matrix window is perfect for track navigation and selection, much better IMO than the iPad/Lemur templates that a lot of Cubase composers use.
One problem I'm having is that the tracks that I want to select in the Matrix are midi tracks and they are all displayed in a dimmed/dark color. From what I've read in the manual they're dimmed because midi tracks don't have an output bus assigned. Could we have an option to have midi tracks show up in the Matrix as regular colored tracks, not dimmed?
Another issue that affects both the midi template and also my mixing template, especially on my 46" screen, is that most of the tracks in the Matrix are at the top and the Matrix window can't be resized. One of the things I've learned over the years working on the large screen is to keep the majority of touch controls in the lower half of the screen, especially controls that need to be touched and dragged, like volume and pan. It would be nice if the Matrix window could be resized like the floating mixer and integrated Matrix, or even if the integrated Matrix could be detached and used on its own. But then it occurred to me that the current Matrix could be much better with an fairly simple update (I'm assuming it would be simple of course!): How about an option to fill the Matrix tiles from the bottom up, left to right, instead of the top down left to right like it does now? Most of my mixing projects don't fill more than half of the Matrix window, which means that the lower half would be filled instead of the top half. And we could still use track visibility to manage larger track count projects, with the available tracks always filling the lower half.
If the option of filling the tracks from the bottom up was enabled, I think the order of the buttons on the left and right side of the Matrix window should also be reversed. On the right side the lowest button would be Level, then Pan, Fine, etc. On the left the lowest button would be Channel Strip, then Send 1, Send 2, etc. This would be a really big boost to the usability of the Matrix window, especially when using it as a mixing tool on a large touchscreen.
Thanks,
Michael