Can someone please explain to me, the logic behind removing the phase and interleave buttons from simple instrument tracks? I mean I can half understand removing them from the console view, but surely they should be there in the "audio" part of the inspector view? Seriously, I have to split an instrument track into audio/MIDI before I can access those buttons? Not getting it! 

Has this been resolved in X3?

Nope, it's still the same bizarre scenario 
 
PS hello 2012 me!

You don't see a interleave button in the CV/TI?   I could have sworn I've changed SITs from stereo to mono before.   I've never needed to change phase, however...

My trouble report of that came back "... as intended". No explanation though. CWBRN-7675, March 2012. Keep sending them.
 
In my report, I also said "As a side note, the audio tab of the instrument track has the record and echo buttons, which really apply to the MIDI section (and are present in the MIDI tab also). Those extra controls are not a problem, just unexpected."    ...  Is this still true? I'll check later.

Those controls are rather advanced and would be used very rarely if at all. Putting them on a Simple Instrument track would defeat the purpose of a Simple Instrument track. Simple is the key word here. If you really need the control offered by separate audio and MIDI tracks use them instead. However if a change is needed by the user using those controls just uncombined the Simple Instrument track and one can have all the controls one could need.  Once accomplished you have the option of recombining them. 
 
 
 
 

sharke
Nope, it's still the same bizarre scenario 
 
PS hello 2012 me!

And you haven't aged a day!

John
Those controls are rather advanced and would be used very rarely if at all. Putting them on a Simple Instrument track would defeat the purpose of a Simple Instrument track. 
 

Agreed 100%. If SI tracks are too limiting, don't use them. I don't, ever.
 
But I'm still trying to figure out the logic of removing those controls from audio tracks, where they're actually pretty important. 
 

bitflipper

sharke
Nope, it's still the same bizarre scenario 
 
PS hello 2012 me!

And you haven't aged a day!

 
Agreed. But going all the way up there to take that photo every day is becoming problematic.

John
Those controls are rather advanced and would be used very rarely if at all. Putting them on a Simple Instrument track would defeat the purpose of a Simple Instrument track. Simple is the key word here. If you really need the control offered by separate audio and MIDI tracks use them instead. However if a change is needed by the user using those controls just uncombined the Simple Instrument track and one can have all the controls one could need.  Once accomplished you have the option of recombining them.     

A mono/stereo switch is "advanced"?