There are certain editing situations where there is a magical combination of key commands to edit/slice something fast…. especially if you understand the POWER of the preference, ‘Select Events Under Cursor’.
My current use case working example, is chopping the decaying tails of a kick drum.
-’Alt’ + ‘x’ (cursor slice selected event, auto selects tail of sliced event)
-’Shift’ + ‘m’ (mutes unwanted tail)
-’n’ (next event start)
-’Shift’ + ’KeyPad+’ (nudge cursor grid increment (1/4))
…repeat
If I could just record that, and use one key or mouse click ‘execute’ to trigger what was recorded, that’d be fantastic.
Yes I have macros for this kind of thing, but they always need adjustments depending on the material.
On macros, a cool feature with the macro recorder, would be to save them to the macro key commands.
Some other features I would add to this proposed macro recorder:
- Macro recorder history (so when users encounter the same editing pattern, they can go back and retrieve it, for example a kick pattern might change for section in which a new macro would be recorded, but then the previous pattern returns in the verse.
- Load a macro starting point from the users macro
- ability to edit the macro on the fly with a ‘record/insert key command’ example:
- -’Alt’ + ‘x’ (cursor slice selected event, auto selects tail of sliced event)
-’Shift’ + ‘m’ (mutes unwanted tail)
-’n’ (next event start)
<—–insert new commands here
-’ctrl’ + ‘>’ (reduce gain 1dB)
-’ctrl’ + ‘>’ (reduce gain 1dB)
-’ctrl’ + ‘>’ (reduce gain 1dB)
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-’Shift’ + ’KeyPad+’ (nudge cursor grid increment (1/4))
- -’Alt’ + ‘x’ (cursor slice selected event, auto selects tail of sliced event)
- Make sure the macro recorder is compatible with ASCII
edit
come to think of it, this could maybe be integrated into the PLE.