[Traverso-user] groups?

[plutek-infinity]

greetings!

years ago, i was following the development of Protux, and always believed it 
was a beautiful piece of work -- i am delighted to see many of its design 
principles alive and in active development in Traverso!

one general concept which is missing is the idea of operating on groups of 
items. 

for example, say i have a number of regions placed on various tracks, and i 
want to move them all to another spot on the timeline while retaining their 
position relative to each other -- this would be very difficult currently, 
because each region would have to be moved separately, and we would have to 
calculate all the regions' new positions and place them manually. it would be 
easy if we could select multiple regions and move them all at once, as a group.

another example of groups would be track groups: one could select some tracks 
and make them all part of an active group, and then gain/mute/solo operations 
would apply to all tracks in the group.

these sorts of group operations seem to fall outside the "soft selection" 
paradigm, since the mouse cursor can only be hovering over ONE item at a time. 
do you have any plans to implement groups of items, such as those i describe 
above?

two other things that occur to me right now:

1. the ability to make arbitrary busses -- i.e. for subgroups in a mix (there 
seems to be no way to do anything other than send each track to a master stereo 
bus), or at least the ability to assign tracks directly to abitrary mono output 
busses so we could mix in an external application or send to multiple outputs 
for surround monitoring.

2. access to precise panning settings -- currently there isn't even a visual 
indicator for panning. it would be useful to be able to input a specific value.

i would say these are the only things which are preventing me from using 
Traverso more than Ardour!

-- 
.pltk.