I feel like this has already been discussed at some point in the past, but I can’t seem to track down any posts.
I’ve been wondering why send tracks are displayed/positioned after the master track in both the pattern editor and mixer views, when logically the master track is the last one to be processed?
So instead of this…
…wouldn’t it make more sense to display it like this?
Edit: I see people below are mentioning the ability to move send tracks around - presumably to position them next to any normal tracks they are linked to, rather than positioned at the end/right. Just for the record, this is not really what I’m interested in. I think the send tracks are fine the way they’re organised now, I simply wanted to switch the master/send position so they are displayed in order of their actual signal flow: Normal Tracks > Send Tracks > Master Track
That said, I’m fairly sure the track adding functionality is simplified by this. If you’re on, or to the right of the master, it adds a send… but if you’re to the left of the master, it adds a regular track.
Nice suggestion, but let’s say you have removed all the send-tracks and now you want to insert a send-track again, now what do you think would be added when you press control+t? A normal track or a sendtrack?
So this would require a different keyboard shortcut to add a sendtrack. (ctrl+s is already assigned to save song)
A dedicated shortcut to add a new send track would definitely be a sensible addition, but not absolutely necessary for this idea to work.
When the cursor is positioned within a normal track : a new normal track is created to the right of the current track
When the cursor is positioned within a send track : a new send track is created to the right of the current send track
When the cursor is positioned within the master track : a new send track is created to the left of the master track
This seems ok?
In addition to this, it should be possible to right click anywhere in the pattern editor and simply choose “new send track”, and one will be inserted automatically at the apppropriate place.
It’s a slightly edited screenshot The colours are from Renoise (right click > show track colours). But I swapped the S01 and Mst track positions, just to be consistent with my idea.
I thought that you already knew about the track colours, but you wanted some other kind of colouring functionality to be added. Maybe something to make the sends look a bit more unique overall compared to normal tracks.
Nope, I didn’t! Killa! Well, if you can colour-code tracks, you give send-tracks their unique flavour to make them stand out
We learn something every day! And hurrah! Thanks!
this one I like the best. (Y) +1
But also I think when there are no send tracks and your cursor is on the master track you can add send-tracks with CTRL + T.