Just looked at a demo of Metric AB. They also have my 4 cue points ideas. It looks pretty cool and to be honest does most of my ideas. Other than being expensive ($200) it lacks one major thing that I suggested which was actually my favorite part/idea…
I can’t trigger it via midi or key command.
Which if you saw my studio, you would see why this is annoying. Directly in front of me in Maschine Studio in MIDI mode, next to a stream deck in midi mode and next to two avid artist mixers in Eucon… and underneath that is a midi keyboard, all which can’t trigger anything in Metric AB. I have 16 pads right in front of me. How awesome it would be to be able to press one and hear a certain part of a reference track play at a certain cue point and press another one and hear another part of the reference track play and tap it again to stop it from playing and hear my mix. I guess it would also be cool to set it to play just that cue point when you hold your finger on the pad (cue on on note on, cue off on note off).