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Making large projectcs easier to navigate

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In a large project with many sub containers and 60+ instruments I find TRACE PARAMETERS indespensible for locating stuff. To make TRACE PARAMETERS EVEN BETTER:

 

Could we have the following features added to TRACE PARAMETERS:

 

When Trace Parameters is ON, Make it so that closed Parent containers turn stripped green if one of the children inside is green.

 

Make it so that when clicking on a container, all of the active vectors for that container will highlight below and/or automatically open up and with all non-active vectors collapsiing or even better disapearing altogether. I would very much like to be able to make non-active instruments completely disapear (user selectable) within a particular container. My current project contains 60 some instruments and its just overwhelming to sift through all of that and ideally I think I'd probaby assign certain instrument / voicing groups to their own containers so-as to minimize the amount of clutter I need to look through when working on a particular idea / section.


Fri, 2015-01-16 - 20:34 Permalink

I thought Cognitone is right now working on this feature :  able/disable containers, but it is complicated to program according Cognitone. 



I would very much like to be able to make non-active instruments completely disapear (user selectable) within a particular container.

Fri, 2015-01-16 - 22:24 Permalink

Jan, I'm not writing the software so can't say how the current work will pan out, but I would think that these are two separate ideas. disabling a container will not hide instruments.

 

there us an option ( think its the m button but also in the menu) to minimise unused instruments. It collapses all instruments in a container that gave no figures/ parameters. They still show up but just their name one per line. your ideas would be pretty useful, but maybe minimise unused will help you out till something better comes along.

Fri, 2015-01-16 - 22:51 Permalink

Yes, it's the 'm' button (minimize instruments) that currently toggles through 3 different views.  Maybe a 4th option could be added to completely hide instruments with no parameters.  I think that would be a good feature.

Sat, 2015-01-17 - 06:47 Permalink

I use that little minimize button all the time but I wish that I could just press a numeral for the one I want instead of having to click, click, click to get through the cycle...