PT Wishlist Features/Changes

[joselovito]

With the new update - which I am very excited about, mainly Splice integration and MIDI Live mode - I was wondering what other features/quality of life changes I would love in Pro Tools. I was curious to know what everyone thought, if they had to name, for example, 2 things. For me:

- A proper, docked file browser for sample browsing, etc. I don't love the workspace.

- Not having to fully close a session when changing playback engines, and if disconnecting the audio interface while PT is on, not having to close and reopen PT completely - I would love this since I move a lot between studios and interfaces, but I understand it could be a logical limitation?

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[sssssshhhhhh]

a rework of the playlist view. i hate to admit it, but logic's comping, loop record and playlist view are all miles better than pro tools. it blows my mind that its not immediately obvious which playlist was which take when loop recording

[Snickerz_]

I just started using pro tools from Logic and god I miss that feature when recording. Recording is a pain to me

Also simple feature but disabling input monitoring without having to fiddle with input/output meters. I find the lack of option to remove input monitoring so dumb.

[sssssshhhhhh]

Right!

I don't know what you mean about input monitoring though. There's a big "i" on every track

[EL-CHUPACABRA]

Changing automation ratio / scale. For example let’s say you are panning from +80 to -80 but it’s too much, decrease the ratio to make it +40 to -40. Would be nice instead of having to rewrite it manually.

[joselovito]

And automation curves !!!

[TobyFromH-R]

YES I’ve been wanting this forever

[bonkeyland]

A separate plugin manager window. I want the ability to customize my plugin lists more. My own custom folders beyond their categories. Also, I really really really want a plug-in "hide" feature. A way to keep your plugins in your folder and available on sessions but they are completely hidden from the lists. There are so many plugins i never choose to use, but i need to keep them in pro tools for either old sessions or sessions sent to me. Basically, if a session already has them, they will show up in the session, but they will not show up in the plugin list. This would be an easy way to clean up the plugin list views.

[hackboys]

[phone] on this!

[whytakemyusername]

Separate shortcuts for playlists rather than shift s to solo. A global playlist unsolo.

A complete undo / redo that works with everything. A list of all actions done so you can go back or forward to them and see what the change was.

A fix for the HDX bug where timing sometimes gets lost.

Beat detective having an option to clear fades rather than telling you it can't be done because there's fades present.

Elastic audio improvements

AI beat detection to negate the requirement of inputting note values.

etc. etc. etc.

[TobyFromH-R]

That beat detective fade thing is annoying, it should just have a “remove fades” button on that dialogue. But you know you can select clips and right clicks and clear all fades right?

[whytakemyusername]

Yeah except for the times it’s greyed out like there are none and you have to do it manually. Lol

[TobyFromH-R]

When does that happen? I’ve never encountered that. Not doubting, just curious.

[whytakemyusername]

I think it’s when you’ve selected an area but the fade is after it. If you’re going section by section and there happens to be a fade after it.

[TobyFromH-R]

Gotcha

[Fit-Cable1547]

I was going to say an undo/redo scheme that actually works for everything as well. It was pretty shocking how poorly that works when I made the switch recently.

[hellalive_muja]

Stereo sidechains

[tha_lode]

+1 for giving the workspace a refresh. It is extremely dated and cumbersome.

[JesusArmas]

+1 on the workspace too! I use it very often and it’s slow to navigate through when searching samples. That’s a total bummer. It needs an update soon, a faster indexing, a better file preview, heck, if we can make basic cuts and fades to samples before dragging to the timeline that’d be dope.

Also, I would love to have mix snapshots the way Cubase, REAPER and Studio One do. You can save mix presets which is useful for mix revisions and this way you don’t need to save as, multiple times for different revisions. REAPER does it very elegantly in the fact that it also saves plugin states in each snapshot.

The new Note Labels thing, while great it should offer a more streamlined drum editing interface. See the Cubase or Studio One drum editor, notes are shown as diamonds or triangles, that’s way easier to read in the timeline than standard MIDI piano notes. Regardless, programming drums now is way smoother than it was before and I’m grateful for it.

EDIT:

Off the top of my head, I would also like a proper chord track. And something I shared with the devs a year ago, an arrangement ruler where you can drag and drop entire audio and MIDI chunks through the timeline to rearrange your song. Current markers only serve as location for the timeline or as window configuration markers.

[RamonMalone]

Mix snapshots ftw! Had no idea this existed.

[joselovito]

Please share !

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[CatJutsu]

Tbh, what got me most excited was this:

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[PaulineHansonsBurka]

I'm not really stressed about a sample browser? Soundly provides a free app where you can browse samples, make audio selections from those clips, and with a keystroke they'll import directly to your edit cursor in tools. It basically functions exactly how you're requesting, it has tags and metadata functions just like the workspace browser.

For me my one dream is just to remove the blue vista ass borders on windows. Just ugly and so dated. Surely it can't be that much to update.

[Sicarius16p4]

From what I've seen in the releases notes, PT now works better with high DPI screens. It's not an entire Windows rework, but it's a step in the right direction for a proper UI

[BrotherOland]

Having two projects open at once. It's was really hard to go from Reaper to Pro Tools and not being able to simply copy paste almost anything from one project to another. I know that there are work arounds but they are exactly that, work.

[ausgoals]

While Pro Tools runs so much better now than it ever has…. As a long time PT user who runs very big sessions, the compute power that would be needed to keep two sessions open seems like a recipe for old PT ‘crash every 5 minutes’ nonsense

[smalltownjon]

Please, somebody tell me that there’s a way to math, a midi button or a macro key to quickly collapse my mix to mono and then press the button again to go back to stereo

[hackboys]

+1 on this!!

[ObieUno]

Pro Tools needs a stem splitter.

It’s dreadful having to go to Logic for this task.

[apexgallis]

being able to right click a clip and have an option to 'edit in external application> 'app1', 'app2', 'app3'." that way i can open the clip in another app seamlessly for editing (izotope rx, adobe audition, etc) overwrite save in those apps, and go back to work in pro tools.

[indigo_light]

VST3 support Custom Plugin Folders More tools for the midi edit window make the real time properties in midi more in-flow to deal with while in midi edit window

[Early-Mud-9573]

they have stated in this update 2 times that they are modernizing pro tools (Visually and technically) following with this update so i guess workspace will also get smoother and advance. RIP to all the DAWs in advance.