Proposal to improve track-muting experience

[dimonomid]

@DavidPackouz I just checked out 2.15.5 changelog and was sad to find nothing related to muting. Could you clarify what’s your priority of improving the muting experience? E.g. in your “coming next” section there is “Advanced crossfade / fade in/out algorithm”, which seems like a much more advanced feature than improving the muting, and yet you decided to focus on it, instead of the muting.

Two things which I need badly in Aeros:

1. Mute at the end of the measure / end of loop. Note that I should also be able to mute multiple tracks at once: during a single measure / loop, I can quickly do those actions: “mute track, next track, mute track”. The effect of those actions is that on the next measure / loop, both tracks (that I marked to be muted) are muted.

2. Single-click muting. I’m longing for some kind of settings which would allow me to mute with a single click. I’m not insisting of the exact alternative layout, but the proposed one was this:

@dimonomid

• On a single short tap, when the button is released , mute the track
• On a long tap, overdub
• On a double tap, undo last layer; and for undoing everything in that track we might use a double tap where the second press is long.

Note: long tap is better than double tap for overdubbing, because if it was a double tap, we’d have to mute the track on the first button release, and immediately unmute it on the next button press; that would be not acceptable. But with a long tap for overdubbing and muting on release (not press), there is no ambiguity.

I’m not saying it should be the default, but I think there is no harm in adding an option for this kind of layout, what do you think?

And again, I’d appreciate if you could share what your priorities are.

Thanks.