A wet/dry rotary control for effects like it is in Reaper.
Volume/Pan automation on the waveform itself instead of a separate window. This is how it is done in Reaper and other DAWs.
File stats like in Adobe Audition.
Being able to move just used and closed audio files around without having to close down WL.
Swap stereo channels S/B in Process not in Edit.
There should be a meta normalizer for the edit window when you have a lot of clips edited together and need to make them all the same level. Especially useful in restoration work.
I love WL and have been a user since 1995. These are things that would make my life somewhat easier. Others may not agree or maybe like these suggestions. Overall WL is the best mastering software on the planet IMHO…
This is possible, but indirectly. And this is automatable:
Most other DAWs have a rotary control for doing this…
I don’t see what you mean, as each clip has a volume and pan envelope in place, and not in a separate window. But only in Montage. I was speaking about the edit window.
Anyway, you could have the clip gain envelope pre effect. And have a simple gain plugin at the end of the clip plugin chain, modulated by an automation envelope. Or the other way round.
Indeed, and in 95% of cases that is enough. However, once in a while you need (want) a more complicated gaincurve pre fx. Then you can’t have the fades post, which they always (at least here) must be. You could of course automate the pre-gain to match the requested in-curve or post-gain as fades, but that is quite clunky. Two actual gain envelopes is sooo much more elegant
I am not blind to that this may lead to some users confusing the two, so there are definite GUI challenges to this
Not at all a deal breaker, just a small workflow wish. And in any case looking forward to 12.
Since I just got a very appropriate case in the door, I decided to take a closer look at the automation/gain issue. The track in question has a rising crescendo towards the end, that benefits from a sloping negative gain at the start of the processing chain. Some possible workflow enhancements were discovered:
As previously noted, a separate envelope for pre-gain is very elegant and uncluttered, but: I now put the built-in gain plugin first in the chain, to automate it with an automation envelope instead. This presented a couple of problems:
You cannot right-click the gain “fader” and assign an envelope
The fader doesn’t move with the (manually) assigned envelope
I miss the bezier curves that the fades have
I accidently added a pan envelope, and couldn’t delete it (only turn it off)
That aside, yes, it works, but is definitely clunky. If we could just have a pre-env with beziers ala the fades, all this goes away
Is there a way for the popup file menu in WL 12 to have “Rename File” as one of the options??? This is the menu that pops up when you right click on the open files ribbon. It would really help in doing restorations which is what I do a lot of. Going up to the file menu at the top of the page is time consuming and prone to error. Thanks in advance!!!
