I am really enjoying making music with Aeros. But right now, I am hitting the wall with handling tracks.
So here are my questions:
Is there any chance to implement direct midi track selection?
I am using a midi controller and often I need to jump to a specific track to overdub. Toggling is unprecise, slow and focus consuming…
The other thing that is driving me crazy is no direct track delete. This is a problem when I make a mistake in the overdub as you can only undo the last action.
I know you don’t want to leave track gaps but you could implement these options in such a way that
“direct track select” doesn’t respond if the track is non existing
“direct track delete” only working on the last track. Maybe you could even call it a “last track delete”. That way we could quickly erase all the tracks in the part that went wrong until we come to the “healthy” tracks.
Without this option I find myself often needing to start the song over again from the beginning because of one mistake.
You could also have a global undo midi message. Undo all the recordings, one by one chronologically, starting from the last one, off course…
Oh and another thing,
It would be GREAT if there was additional midi command to mute/unmute a track globally, meaning for all parts at the same time.
Why?
In the most arrangements I’ve built so far, I had a very consistent build up, meaning most of the tracks have the same function through all the parts. If I need to move a lot between the parts it is difficult to remember e.g. if I left the track 4 in the part 3 muted or unmuted so it’s often guessing what state I will find there when I come back.
If I can decide right before the transition what the mute state will be globally then I would know what’s waiting for me around the corner because I would decide before the corner.
I hope some of these ideas will resonate with you.
Thank you for your feedback! I’ve forwarded your requests to the team for consideration. We appreciate your input and will take it into account for future updates.
Thanks for replying @Aleksandar, that asked the same question as @Drabki about direct midi track selection. I seem to remember that it was also asked before on the Midi commands thread.
Each time you argued that it is not possible because of the logic of aeros software. @Aleksandar has mentioned a good point to solve the error in case you select a track that is not recorded, by ignoring that order, that should be fine in case, as you say in other the threads, the aeros logic is to write the tracks sequentially. This time you haven’t argued why the solution presented by @Aleksandar wouldn’t work.
I would like you to elaborate a bit more on your answer that it is not possible to select a track directly with a midi command. I still don’t understand why it is not possible.
Singular Sound reserves the right to not implement or avoid doing things at any point whether or not they are technically “possible”.
To be more explicit this would probably require saving the song which would create its own issues, it is not a fluid solution and the most desired solution for deleting it and having it blank will not be possible. It is not a priority at this time to look for half-measure solutions to this problem that will not make everyone happy regardless, however down the line it may make sense to explore ways to improve it but now is not that time.
We cannot allow direct selection of tracks with the code as is because if you select a blank track it would cause holes, we could make it so it only allows selection of an empty track if it is the next unrecorded track or it is recorded to already but that breaks the logic of selection and would require more work than just allowing it.
The Aeros code cannot allow empty tracks between tracks as is
Thank you for arguing in a more concrete way why you made your decision. As customers we can understand the effort to improve the product, but sometimes you also need to understand why this product does not achieve things that without a detailed explanation may seem easy to achieve.
Thank you very much for continuing to develop the product.