Colored Cues and Waveform real-estate

Colored Cues:
In an attempt to be more creative and efficient I have started to really go through and index my tracks with cues and loops so that I mark points of interest and make the tracks possibly work for multiple songs. As I started doing this I noticed if I would try to come back to a song I would have an array of points that all look the same and can only be determined by the shape (ie, loop fade in/out) and STOCK colors of the markers. This became a little confusing and I would have to search through each cue with the extra transport area open to see the name of each actual cue... This is what got me thinking...

I would like to suggest a simple "Cue by Color", but USER DEFINED! I am very accustom to the shape of each flagged point, but I think this type of system would work well for a lot of styles of mixing and genres. The extra transport controls could be closed yet you could tell what you flagged from one song to the next (and if need be, still name it). This way you can do a quick reference from one color of track a to the same color of track b? Maybe have 8 or so different colors that can be assigned? I know this can also technically be done by cue #'s, but having both would give a xxx amount of combos that users can come up with?

Waveform real-estate:
Possibly have the option to remove (or maybe move) the sync/master (phase meter is already possible) and track direction?
I know in the essential layout you get more WF real-estate by only using one info line, but what about if we just turn the line off (all 3 slots) in a different layout to run maybe 2 rows of information and have even more WF real-estate?

I know what I am asking is probably A LOT harder to make possible, but I just wanted to throw that out there and use this part of the forum for what its made for.

Thanks for listening/reading

 

Cue point refinement has been requested many times (not least by myself). At the very least, we should be able to bring up the Advanced > Hotcue > Click to reveal hotcue dropdown with a keyboard or MIDI controller mapping. Then we could see, at a glance what are cues actually are.

And as for GUI customization - the more, the better.

+1

 

Thanks for chiming on on the subject LP... I do hope with the success that NI is seeing with their current line of SW and HW we get some great updates. :crosses fngers: