(12-18-2024, 08:37 AM)balanced Wrote: Thank You for Your kind words Those inspired me to post another UI suggestion.

Soundop shows files and mixspaces as a dropdown menu. While this conserves space, it does not allow one to have a continuous overview of currently open files or mixspaces. I wonder if it would be possible to implement a tab-like shallow panel which would include all currently open files and/or mixspaces? It would not have to take a lot of space vertically, but you wouldn't have to click so much and you would see all open files all the time. I will attach an image of Reaper, which has this kind of tab menu implemented for projects. Those tabs Soundop already has for panels are pretty sleek too, perhaps those could be utilized? This tab menu could be implemented right under the top menu bar or as a horizontal all window wide panel which you could reposition freely? It would be nice to have the option to enable or disable it of course. It would also be great to be able to drag and drop files from windows explorer straight to this tab. Now the drag & drop only seems to work if you have the file editor panel open.

(12-18-2024, 08:44 AM)balanced Wrote: And another one concerning peak files:

It would be great to have an option to optionally save all peak files created by Soundop to one separate folder which is defined in preferences. This would allow you to not fill your sample libraries with .pek files, which is not always desirable when working with sound libraries.

Cheers,

A

(12-18-2024, 09:34 AM)balanced Wrote: Another suggestion concerning plugin management and using the "sort by location" option:

Allow all separate plugins and subfolders from all separate plugin sources/folders (including VST3 plugins) to be shown as one virtual folder, where all of them would be gathered together. Folder structures from the real sources/folders would be retained. If you would have two or more identically named folders in separate real plugin locations/folders, say two folders named "eq" in the root folders of two separate plugin locations, you would see just one folder named "eq" containing all plugins from all of these real "eq" folders. If you would get similarily named plugins gathered in the same virtual folder from separate real locations (say, a VST3 and VST2 version of a plugin with the same name) you could show just the VST3 version or separate them with a VST2 / VST3 tag.

This would make it much easier to use plugins, if you have for example a separate folder for VST2 freeware plugins, one for the VST2 you have purchased and installed and then also the VST3 folder. If you organize your plugins in subfolders by using unified naming in these separate locations, the above option would allow you to see everything in one clean virtual folder with the subfolder structure you have created.

This is something that Reaper allows one to do and if you work with lots of plugins and several plugin locations it will help your work rather remarkably. I feel that every DAW should have this option.. Of course this could be a function that you could enable or disable.

(12-19-2024, 08:03 AM)ivosight Wrote: Hi,

It seems Reaper does not support organizing plugins according to physical location. Could you give more details?

Thanks.
Best regards.

(12-20-2024, 02:08 AM)balanced Wrote: For the Reaper plugin management reference: right click All plugins / Show in left pane list / VST folders

(12-28-2024, 09:06 PM)balanced Wrote: You're welcome, have a happy holiday!

I got another small feature request: Add an option to preferences / effects or "manage VST plugins" window to automatically scan for new plugins when opening Soundop. This is either standard behavior or an option for many DAWs as far as I understand. You would got to have a failsafe mechanism though for the odd situation when a plugin makes Soundop crash while scanning, so you would not end up always crashing the software before it even opens.

Cheers,

A

(12-28-2024, 09:33 PM)balanced Wrote: And another one: I wonder if the "play effect tail when stop playback" could be extended to audio file editing too? Or make another checkbox option for that too, if you prefer. One could asses time based fx processing easier this way for single files too.

Btw, as the amount of selectable options grow in preferences, it would be great to have an search box for text items in options menu. Reaper does have a simple implementation of this. It obviously does have a lot more options to cover, but I have found this to be an easy method for quickly checking if a program has an option for a specific thing, before I start to browse through the preferences pages and read options one by one.

Cheers

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