Suggestions for improving MTS
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 10:03 pm
Personally I found MTS strangely underrated in the DAW market.
I tried most "popular" DAWs, but at the end I still prefer MTS.
Said that, I would like to suggest some little improvements to Giel that would be very important for daily usage
(at least in my case) without changing the overall "philosophy" of MTS.
1) Best user interface to define the cycling zone (look at Garageband/Logic Pro or even Bitwig Studio)
As composer, I rely on cycling a lot and current mechanism is really uncomfortable.
Moreover, the cycling zone (if defined) should be saved in the .hdr file to be restored when loading the song
2) Possibility of muting/unmuting selected MIDI notes
3) Quick switch from main screen between (at least) two output devices. The goal is to easily switch between
headphones and speaker monitors without opening a dialog window, change settings, etc.
Maybe it could be something like the current Studio > Audio Output Control menu but targeting the choice
of the overall device not single audio channels.
4) Keep in the .hdr file the user-selected state of most other settings, especially: the visualization of chords
for each track, the zoom level, the state of Snap and Bars, which tracks are open or closed.
The goal is to recover the song state left on closing when reloaded later.
5) Some kind of plugin organizer inside the "VST(i) and AU(i) Plugins" submenus
At lower priority, some minor look and feel improvements would also help MTS to compete better, in particular:
6) Wider selection of colors for tracks
7) Just a a bit of 3D / shadowing in the top bar buttons and items, I mean something like the top panel of Logic Pro X / Garageband
I tried most "popular" DAWs, but at the end I still prefer MTS.
Said that, I would like to suggest some little improvements to Giel that would be very important for daily usage
(at least in my case) without changing the overall "philosophy" of MTS.
1) Best user interface to define the cycling zone (look at Garageband/Logic Pro or even Bitwig Studio)
As composer, I rely on cycling a lot and current mechanism is really uncomfortable.
Moreover, the cycling zone (if defined) should be saved in the .hdr file to be restored when loading the song
2) Possibility of muting/unmuting selected MIDI notes
3) Quick switch from main screen between (at least) two output devices. The goal is to easily switch between
headphones and speaker monitors without opening a dialog window, change settings, etc.
Maybe it could be something like the current Studio > Audio Output Control menu but targeting the choice
of the overall device not single audio channels.
4) Keep in the .hdr file the user-selected state of most other settings, especially: the visualization of chords
for each track, the zoom level, the state of Snap and Bars, which tracks are open or closed.
The goal is to recover the song state left on closing when reloaded later.
5) Some kind of plugin organizer inside the "VST(i) and AU(i) Plugins" submenus
At lower priority, some minor look and feel improvements would also help MTS to compete better, in particular:
6) Wider selection of colors for tracks
7) Just a a bit of 3D / shadowing in the top bar buttons and items, I mean something like the top panel of Logic Pro X / Garageband