Thinking as a New User, why is it called Input Monitoring in the dialog, but Input Echo in the track?

Option "Midi Only" - a new user is not immediately going to understand this means an external synth. Perhaps a better description - in the yellow tooltip, maybe?

jpetersen
Option "Midi Only" - a new user is not immediately going to understand this means an external synth.

You may also just want to create a midi track as part of setting something up.  I think "MIDI Only" should be the default 'Instrument'.  That way it won't be hidden and removes the odd reference to TTS-1.
 

jpetersen
Thinking as a New User, why is it called Input Monitoring in the dialog, but Input Echo in the track?

Maybe what the user wants is to monitor the input, but for that to happen the track has to echo its input.
 
[could someone please reset the forum clock again so we can fix stupid typing errors, and also for the newest posts to show as unread (how can a digital clock get so out of sync so fast ?)]
 

Paul P

Anderton
I've been testing it to write an article about this feature for the eZine, and overall I prefer it to the other ways to add tracks (assuming it's not a situation where I can use a Track Template).

Now that's an odd omission.  If you're going to have a central place for inserting things, I think you want to be able to get at all the things you might want to insert.

 
Not really; there's already an Insert menu with every possible thing you'd want to insert. The Add Track flyout supplements that with a simpler interface for the most common tasks. If you're going to add the option to insert Track Templates, then you might as well as insert ReWire devices, and then it gets complicated fast.
 
 

Interesting that this new feature hasn't been released yet and already there are changes needed.

 
Needed changes or suggested changes? II don't think it's possible to evaluate what's actually needed without trying it.
 

This thread is beginning to ressemble a trial balloon.

 
It's not, it's a preview. If past experience is any indication, after a feature is introduced, it can be modified shortly thereafter if there's enough interest...e.g., Upsampling was introduced. If no one liked it, that probably would have been the end of it. But people got into it, so Upsample on Playback was added a couple months later. Same with Mix Recall.
 

jpetersen
Option "Midi Only" - a new user is not immediately going to understand this means an external synth. 

Not necessarily; it could be driving a MIDI-aware signal processor, or someone might want to add several MIDI-only tracks to drive a multi-timbral instrument. 

I will use the new feature.
 
I've been adding tracks forever in only one way and had no idea there were 4, or 7, other ways to do it.  This new feature looks intuitive. 
 
Something else not yet mentioned is, for those who prefer using a mouse, this requires less mouse travel.  A little thing, but anytime you have to move up to the menu, find something, and move back, is wasted motion that takes you away from the task at hand.
 

Will there be some sort of "vst3 note expression" implemented in the coming months?

One final UX item:
Light the Record button in the same red as the other record buttons,
light the Input Monitor button the same blue as the Input Echo button.
 
Edit: To head off New User misunderstanding, perhaps consider using either Echo or Monitor (just one unified name), for the same thing.

jpetersen
 
Edit: To head off New User misunderstanding, perhaps consider using either Echo or Monitor (just one unified name), for the same thing.

No argument there - I'm all about consistency.   If you post a FR for it, I'd vote!