It would be great if Musical Mode could be selected upon new track creation, since many times, I have created a new MIDI or Instrument Track, only to have to realise later that it is using the wrong time base, and to then have to manually move notes.
This is aggravating, when you have meticulously recorded a performance and you must then decide whether or not to record again or move notes, with the performance never sounding the same.
I suggest this since Steinberg are always improving things, as well as consistency but there is more room to add handy features such as what I am suggesting.
I can only add, as brilliant a feature as that is, I still would like a selection, in the New Track dialog, simply due to the fact, that in the past it was the default, when now, Cubase and Nuendo both have an audio-first approach.
I am fine with this approach, it needs to be this way, to work as an app, however, there also needs to be more options in the DAW, particularly on track creation, and compatibility, with Folders for example.
Honestly no idea what youâre talking about. No thanks to yet another option in track creation. If youâre working in music just set everything to musical. If youâre working in other worlds set it to set it to Time Linear or simply have it follow the main transport display.
You, canât change the default, when creating a track.
Linear, should always be the default, when creating any track, definitely however were an option provided, in the Create New Track dialog, then it would of course be set to Linear, as well, but it would be user changeable.
Not really. That is a user preference and thatâs why itâs available in Preferences.
Your argument for musical time domain selection seems to be going round in circles. You seem to be asserting that youâd always want it to be set to Linear anyway, so what is the actual point of it being user-changeable in the Add track dialogue in your case? If it was available in the Add track dialogue it would lead to confusion rather than making things easier.
If you want it to be user changeable then set Preference to âFollow Transport Main Displayâ and adjust the Transport Main display as appropriate using the Exchange Time formats key command, before adding the track. Itâs doubtful Steinberg would change this behaviourâŚ
Or, if you must have changeable behaviour at the time of adding the track, you could use the PLE preset entitled âSet Time Base to Linearâ to easily change the setting, and then make another similar PLE preset for âSet Time Base to Musicalâ (both of which you could optionally combine with Add track in a Macro, to make it even easier).
As by now I have realised, there is a Preference, that is great but as I regularly delete my preferences due to needing to maintain system stability under extraneous resource constraints, it is indeed not a solution, to the situation as described, in the original post.
Saying that, I do appreiciate knowing and I will ensure that I set the timebase to Musical Mode, immediately after I have created a new track, since the alternatiive it seems, is to adjust events post-record, which I am grateful for but the Create New Track, dialog has been around for some time, and having a selection available, when creating a new track, with the default being Liner, would not actually impede workflow.
I am not sure you understand. There is no need to have another option when creating tracks. Read the replies above. From what I can gather youâre working in music. Set the default to musical and forget about it.
If youâre also âregularly delete my preferences due to needing to maintain system stability under extraneous resource constraintsâ you might want to troubleshoot your system. That is not normal.
The less preferences, needed to be set, the better since they are in no way permanent so my request still stands, unless of course denying the request is more about resource allocation, in terms of what gets fixed or added.
That is simply not true. Please stop trying to sew the seeds of confusion and misinformation. Preferences are permanent, unless of course you decide to change them! Surely, that is pretty obvious. I think you are overthinking this whole thing.
The following is what you requested in your first post:
@twelvetwelve provided a solution above which was to set your preferred default in Preferences and has since re-iterated âset the default to musical and forget about itâ. It seemed like the âgreatâ function that you asked for and indeed you yourself originally accepted twelvetwelveâs post as the solution to your request. So why are you still here asking for more? What is the point? The program provides a clear, logical solution to your request but you now seem unwilling to accept it.
It was âSolvedâ automatically, but the only âsolutionâ in this case is not to forget in the first place, and if you do, there appears to be a secondary solution in that you can keep the notes in place post-record but I am looking for a way to stop the situation from occurring at all, in the first place hence the feature request.
I donât know why this is causing issues, for people personally.
Of course, in this context you do have to think in the first place⌠before you record something. Isnât this to be expected?
You might like to make your life easier and set the default as Musical in Preferences, assuming Musical is what you use most of the time when you add a Track. And then, if you need Linear you can create a suitable Macro which will automatically do that with a single key stroke - or just use the PLE factory preset âSet Time base to Linear for currently selected trackâ after you have added the track.
Or if you use Linear most of the time and Musical is the exception, then set this up the other way round.
Of course, Steinberg may be able to consider adding time base to the Add track dialogue, but there may be logical reasons why they have not already done this and TBH I see little use for it.
P.S. Nothing personal going on here. Just trying to get clarity on this since some of your sentences are not easy to understand.
As you would no doubt be aware, the original default was Musical Timebase but this was changed at some point to be Linear, when creating a track.
Once, I realised that the default had changed (I learned the hard way), I went and removed it for every track that does not require it, that is all bar MIDI and Insstrument Tracks.
I remember when Steinberg introduced the Create New Track dialog, and I thought it was appealing to new users, but that is not the case and it has become very useful, in that the options, can be mostly tailored to user requirements except for Audio Tracks, in that "No Inputâ cannot be selected at this time, unfortunately.
Youâre not making any sense and you seem to be overthinking it. I suggest taking a look at the manual and getting an understanding of how it works and why it works the way it does. There is almost zero reason to add a time base selection to the create track dialog.
