Seek freedom
Posted: February 3rd, 2018, 19:35
Hi,
In Resonic Pro 0.9.1, I feel a bit limited when trying to seek quickly through files. In the past few days, I've been thinking about ways to do it differently. Please have a look at my ideas below.
1. Decouple seek & play
When playback is paused or stopped, seek commands always play files automatically (which I usually don't want). Thus, I would love an option to disable "Play on Seek" so that playback cursor can be positioned freely without making any noise. I believe this feature would offer some interesting possibilities.
2. Set start position
An obvious advantage of seeking independently is to set a custom start position without actually playing the track. This could be quite useful when seeking with Left/Right or with Ctrl+Wheel over waveform. When I want to start playback at a specific position, I find that seeking with those shortcuts is somewhat unpleasant (hearing lots of audio glitches along the way).
3. Seek precisely
To move playback cursor with more precision, I suggest the addition of Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right shortcuts. It could be tweaked to move at a distance of about 1/10th of the standard Left/Right seek motion. For mouse control, Ctrl+Shift+Wheel could have the same effect.
4. Select in 2 steps
If playback cursor could be placed freely on the waveform, then a simple Shift+Left-Click could set the 2nd marker and make a selection. This 2-step selection would be a great alternative to the actual "hold & drag" functionality.
5. Select on A-B
In the same way, pressing A-B while paused or stopped, then Left-Clicking on waveform could have a similar behavior (requiring more clicks, but no shift-click). For both of these (2-step & A-B selections), playback cursor would go to beginning of selection as soon as it's created, but playback would stay paused or stopped.
Feel free to comment, I'd like to know your opinion.
I hope I'm not delusional, yet I can already see those features happen.
Regards.
In Resonic Pro 0.9.1, I feel a bit limited when trying to seek quickly through files. In the past few days, I've been thinking about ways to do it differently. Please have a look at my ideas below.
1. Decouple seek & play
When playback is paused or stopped, seek commands always play files automatically (which I usually don't want). Thus, I would love an option to disable "Play on Seek" so that playback cursor can be positioned freely without making any noise. I believe this feature would offer some interesting possibilities.
2. Set start position
An obvious advantage of seeking independently is to set a custom start position without actually playing the track. This could be quite useful when seeking with Left/Right or with Ctrl+Wheel over waveform. When I want to start playback at a specific position, I find that seeking with those shortcuts is somewhat unpleasant (hearing lots of audio glitches along the way).
3. Seek precisely
To move playback cursor with more precision, I suggest the addition of Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right shortcuts. It could be tweaked to move at a distance of about 1/10th of the standard Left/Right seek motion. For mouse control, Ctrl+Shift+Wheel could have the same effect.
4. Select in 2 steps
If playback cursor could be placed freely on the waveform, then a simple Shift+Left-Click could set the 2nd marker and make a selection. This 2-step selection would be a great alternative to the actual "hold & drag" functionality.
5. Select on A-B
In the same way, pressing A-B while paused or stopped, then Left-Clicking on waveform could have a similar behavior (requiring more clicks, but no shift-click). For both of these (2-step & A-B selections), playback cursor would go to beginning of selection as soon as it's created, but playback would stay paused or stopped.
Feel free to comment, I'd like to know your opinion.
I hope I'm not delusional, yet I can already see those features happen.
Regards.
