I made a mockup to illustrate.
Top is current GUI on my widescreen with arranger window not maximised so as not to make too wide a mockup. (so there is much more space than what is shown here so ample case for customisation).
Bottom is proposed layout, with default Cubase bars assigned with an intelligent positioning on the left (not fixed, but a ratio of screen size, that favours being on the left) and the proposed User layout on the right.
The User area could have direct buttons, eg load or execute, or menus with further options. Eg several macros, etc… And a load/save function to have different custom layouts for different scenarios.
Here I put just a few of some of the stuff I would often use :
- load a macro
- Load a Track Preset eg Hive 2 with HP filter and 3rd party compressor already loaded (2-letter naming or icon, to be thought about)
- Transpose by x semitones
etc…
Hope that helps ! Looking forward to workflow enhancements way way more than new plugins ! (unless they are truly unique)
