Forget Audio Tracks, what's your wishlist for NS2?

If Matt did a few little updates, what would you like to see? I'd like to see more colours for track lanes, MIDI mapping for transport controls and mixer (selected track mode), mouse/trackpad support and keyboard shortcuts. I'm happy with the way NS2 works, just my little wishlist.

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  • edited January 2023
    • MIDI MMC (start/stop) OUT - to be able sync my hw gear and make NS brain of my hw setup
    • realtime audition of quantize feature (like when playback is running and i tweak quantize parameters to actually hear shiftetd notes)
  • I haven't got a clue how difficult any of this would be. Is there a lot of work involved in doing any or all of it Dendy?

  • @Wyvern said:
    I haven't got a clue how difficult any of this would be. Is there a lot of work involved in doing any or all of it Dendy?

    i have zero clue :)) Those are just thing i'm really missing :))

  • As long as you are asking… Expand/fix midi cc implemention:

    Above not necessarily in order of preference. There are workarounds for all of them but some are a real PITA. I live and breath NS2.
    Thanks!

    • Sample timestretching in the sample editor.

    • Ability to insert space in the timeline at project level (so a space is inserted in all tracks lanes in the project), keeping all track automation in sync as per before the addition of the space

    • auv3 effect automation (although this is the merest of nice-to-haves)

    • Slate/Obsidian streamed their samples from disk (like Audiolayer does)

    That would all very much do me 😊

  • Have been wanting these for a while:

    • External transport control support (play, record, stop, etc from my MPK249)
    • Midi Clock Out
    • For Nanostudio2 to be available on my M1 Macbook (please <3 ?) - I'd use it way more if it were
  • Dear Matt

    If you're reading this, please let us know if you're able to do none, some or (even better) all of them 😀

    Honestly, your app is simply the best in its class out there.

  • @Wyvern said:
    Dear Matt

    If you're reading this, please let us know if you're able to do none, some or (even better) all of them 😀

    Honestly, your app is simply the best in its class out there.

    Based on everything I’ve read I don’t see ANY new features being added. Just compatibly updates. If things turn differently I’d be very surprised and so will go forward with NS2 expecting no further development and using it as it is today.

  • I expect to use NS2 as-is and build my workflow accordingly.
    Some of the features mentioned here could be nice to have. For me… what dendy said: MIDI clock out would be fun and I wouldn’t mind real time audition of quantization. More useful would be trg-like sample/resample into Slate. However none of these are stopping me from getting work done. They would just be nice. If we were really talking pie-in-the-sky stuff, then maybe another rock-themed synthesizer that was a blend of granular and wave-table. Something fun that creates out-of-this-world sounds.

  • @okfox said:

    • Midi Clock Out

    NS sends clock to all midi outs ;) It just doesn’t sent MMC (start/stop)

  • I guess I don’t see the use of MIDI clock without start/stop of the hardware device. It isn’t I situation I ever find myself in though. For me it is just simple MIDI channels in master/slave configuration. So if you have a real world usage that explains this better, I’m all ears.

  • Recently, one thing I was wishing I had was the ability to have ghost notes from other tracks, or some way of viewing them in the midi editor simultaneously.

    I got around it by copying the midi into the new track and drawing the new stuff/deleting the old midi as needed.

  • I think someone posted a workaround for ghost notes a while back. Maybe search for that post. Could have something we wouldn’t think of. Whenever I have done something like this I just moved the reference notes an octave or two out of the way. Not sure if that would work for what you are doing….?

  • edited January 2023

    @AlexY @SlapHappy :

    Move your ghost notes to the right of your midi clip (beyond the actual length of the midiclip):

  • Ah ha! There you go!
    Thanks ! @TakkAtakk

  • @SlapHappy said:
    I think someone posted a workaround for ghost notes a while back. Maybe search for that post. Could have something we wouldn’t think of. Whenever I have done something like this I just moved the reference notes an octave or two out of the way. Not sure if that would work for what you are doing….?

    That's sort of what I was doing. It worked out nice because you can draw the counter melody under it. :)

    @TakkAtakk said:
    @AlexY @SlapHappy :

    Move your ghost notes to the right of your midi clip (beyond the actual length of the midiclip):

    I'll try this too!

    Thank you both!

  • Hello, I would very much like to see the NS1 autobeat feature on NS2. It is very very useful for

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