Oh also:

4. QWERTY Midi Keyboard, when I'm on my laptop and inspirations stikes, it would be good to be able to use the laptop keyboard to record.

I want to use the new audio effect plugins on a live input channel without delay .
I now you can use that pdc button for that but i hate to use that every time i want to record in X1.
I also now that the new plugins are not made for that .
Wel ,make it work for that please.
Or make it so i dont have to use that pdc button that it is done automatic :)

1 - Control Bar should allow ALL modules to be visible, ALL at once.... otherwise is unusable... unless you have a mega-screen, which can't always be the case...
At present, the Control Bar is the worst out there...
This point is URGENT..... no way out....

2 - Track Headers should be implemented with selectable tools and buttons of features present up to v8.5, now missing in X1... 

3 - Real color customization BACK...

Without the above points fixed, hardly ever X2 might be my next upgrade... 

i have noticed noones has mentioned heated seats?...they are still an upgrade ,you know?
sorry,had to break it up a bit.

I would like minimised plugs to NOT cover the scroll bar......I sometimes spend ages moving plugs out of the way to scroll left or right...yea I know I should drop 'em in the multidock but often I don't (as I may have so much in the multidock it takes ages to find and undock 'em again when I need them) and they become a PITA

Twigman
I would like minimised plugs to NOT cover the scroll bar......

YEAH! I always found  that odd.

djjhart@aol.com


Global Save of screen sets. .. Screen sets are one of those new feature i don't use at all and I should but I find it ridiculously stupid to set up your components only to have to set them up again and again...

Hey, DJ - I understand what you mean by global screensets - That was a hot topic when we all started wrestling with X1. 

But I don't know why the screensets I put together some months ago are steady, ready, and consistently working.  They're brought up with the computer keyboard #1 through 4 - Four is all I need.  I don't know why that's not working for you.

RB

Blogman


1. Fully baked!!! I don't like meat uncooked and I don't like software half baked either.
2. Either separate FREEZE Synth - just the synth frozen and Freeze Track - freeze the audio and FX, or the ability to use Pro-channel on frozen tracks the way we have been able to re-enable and use sonitus EQ on frozen synth tracks in 8.53.  Synths are frozen during tracking to save RAM.  ( 6 broadway big band horns use 6 gigs of RAM just for the attacks) For some time now, we've been able to have all synths frozen first, then come back to mix and enable the EQ....  That's gone as of X1B! So now were supposed to bus all those tracks, or copy the audio to new audio tracks.  Phewy on you!
3. Metronome to work properly when clicking around the timeline when snap is off.
4. Higher midi resolution.
5. Metronome to be changed to eighth notes, 16ths, dotted 16ths, etc.
6. Metronome to be bouncable, freezable... (still might want to add pro channel to metronome after freeze though...)
7. Animated conductor window for following and animated conductor (mickey mouse, old dude, robot, Blogman...)
8. Recordable tap tempo for conducting the tempo with the space bar ( like finale, or like I do with my Wii-mote and Glove pie and my own personal tap tempo preset in Bome's midi translator)  Then we need nodes to be lassoable and movable like the midi control data.
9. 64 bit of Perfect Space and all other non 32 bit plugs...
10. the ability to create and use midi timers and translators within midi tracks such as with Bome's to be able to process midi translations offline in the fast bounces.  (Or maybe help Bome's be a fast bouncing midi plug in.
11. Midi notes to NOT drop out when using midi Quantize on a state of the art computer with the midi buffers as high as they go, running no audio fx at all.
12. STABILITY< STABILITY<STABILITY!!! Wait till next March if you have to..... Consumer needs to be able to trust the product out of the box.

---Blogman

        13. Ability to lock a midi clip in time, so as to edit or re-edit the tempo grid map around the midi clip. As if it were audio, but still being midi.
        14. Ability to assign key-switch search-back options, so as to be able to have keyswitches for Vienna, or Kontakt sent out based on the last keyswitch when skipping around the now time bar.

Ability to open several consoles. E.g. select 10 tracks and open the console only with these tracks. Sorry for bad English.

Blogman

9. 64 bit of Perfect Space and all other non 32 bit plugs...
 
14. Ability to assign key-switch search-back options, so as to be able to have keyswitches for Vienna, or Kontakt sent out based on the last keyswitch when skipping around the now time bar.

Those two would be enough to wean me off 8.5.

1) Make sure it is actually in a suitable state for release. X1 was not. If your beta testers are not picking up enough bugs, get better, or ideally more testers.

2) Go through some of the threads and piles of customer feedback regarding what X1 is missing compared to 8.5, and work out ways that this could either logically integrated back into X1 (customize midi tools is a good start) or if the feature exists but confuses people/is improperly implemented compared to 8.5 (snap setting strength...) then work out ways that make a more logical approach to the mechanism from a customer and users point of view, not the convenient group think that commonly happens in board meetings (not meaning to insult Cakewalk, I have faith in your team but it doesn't take a psychologist to point out common aspects in human behaviour.)

3) Staff view needs work. You know that notation concept that people have been using for hundreds of years? Nobody is expecting Sibelius included within Sonar, just for the staff editor to work in a logical fashion and have the sort of basic functionality that users have been asking for for years now. I really wonder when I see constant marketing how Cakewalk takes suggestions from it's user base but this is just ignored.

4) Matrix view is an awesome idea, but still needs a little more work. But that is something I am sure has been discussed before.

5) Please no more instruments or effects, just stick with the basics, get those perfect and people will thank you for it.