i don’t know if anyone else would find this useful, but one of the things i get a bit OCB about when mixing digitally is messing with something that sounds great to me as it is, and not really wanting to lose what i’ve got
so often, if i’ve got a drum track all set up with levels, routings, plug-in settings, and i want to try something a bit different, i’ll save a copy and branch off, work on that for a bit, usually load the old version up at some point and decide it was better
so how about being able to save a scene as it is (all track levels, send levels, plug-in and ideally third-party plug-in settings) - maybe somewhere in mixer view: 1 2 3 4 5 6 (right-click save, left-click recall) - and be able to go crazy rearranging things, but know i can quickly cross-reference and get back to how things were before
you’d be able to save a number of alternate mixes within a track - would make comparing different mixdowns really easy - and there’d maybe also be scope for automatable scene changes -> morphing from one scene to another smoothely, perhaps as a tracker effect (might be a bit messy, but something like SCXY : S = Scene change function; C = scene to change to; XY = speed (0 instant to FF 255 measures))
so, say you had a clean vocal section where the music faded out; rather than automating loads of parameters seperately, you could get the mix right for the main body of the tune, then change things, even master bus compression and reverb levels, EQ settings, and get that right for the vocal section; slide into that mix with an S205 (or something), then slide back when the instruments want to come back in with an S105… or for more experimental music, you might want to program all sorts of crazy scene changes, going from punchy, bright drums, to distorted, nightmare drums, to filtered, reverbed drums… switching and morphing between them; could introduce a new element to tracker programming
basically, just like on a big mixing desk! (now’s usually the time when i find out this feature’s been right under my nose all along)