some feature suggestions

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Here are yet again further suggestions, after taking a look at the features of some alternative audio editors and DAWs:

1. M/S waveform view option: Soudop has the integrated mid / side splitter plugin, which is very useful. What I would consider a great addition to this, would be the ability to view your waveform and spectral information of stereo audio file in mid / side mode too, in addition to L / R. Perhaps this could have a toggle button in View Toolbar and the "L / R channel enabled" buttons in Editor panel would convert to M / S buttons? If this could be replicated to Mixspace too, perhaps with a spectogram toggle button/options, It would be even more useful? For Mixspace, a track or clip based override/setting for general view options of spectogram / waveform and stereo / ms information might be useful though? Bacause you might want to see the m/s or spectral information for one track or file, while seeing the rest of the files/tracks in waveform mode.

2. A separate monitoring FX chain / panel would be helpful. As using software based headphones and room correction is quite common these days, a separate monitoring FX chain that retains it's settings independently from the current selected Audio file or Mixspace would help alot. So this would be a global setting for the Soundop. In signal chain this would be positioned after the rendering point, so none of the monitoring FX would ever be rendered in files by accident. A single on/off toggle button for monitoring FX for Toolbar menu would be great. Of course saving your chains as presets for different headphones or monitoring environments would be great too. In windows (and Mac based systems too I guess) you can use systemwide correction using several software, but these don't cover using the ASIO drivers in Windows at least, as the DAW software connects then directly to audio hardware. So a separate monitoring fx chain is needed for the editor/DAW software for using ASIO. It would also create more flexibility for those of us who don't want to use systemwide correction, and rely on other drivers than ASIO. I haven't looked at the channel routing options in Soundop now as iIm currently working with stereo files only, but perhaps it would be wise to think a bit about monitoring chain and output options in general together, if you want to implement this. I mean you can setup your studio so that your routing for headphones and main monitors is separate, which would suggest implementing separate corrections for separate hardware outputs, or specifying the outs which the correction is applied to. But perhaps this is already a bit detailed, a simple option to enable / disable a preset based correction for your main L/R bus would be already very helpful.

3. Delta solo button and mix knob for all plugins: If it's reasonably easy to realize, adding a delta solo button and mix knob for all individual effects (VST etc.) would be useful. You can surely find a better description, but as I understand it, the delta solo (perhaps?) uses a phase cancellation of the original signal to subtract the original from the passed signal. So with the button pressed, if your FX is doing nothing, it nulls perfectly and you don't hear anything. But any modifications to the signal are passed through and you will be able to hear them. This combined with the frequency analysis panel would be a great and immediate way to hear and see what a plugin does to your signal. In addition a separate mix pot for all individual effects, integrated as well to the existing "wrapper" window for VST's etc, would be handy. So you could use all effects in parallel mode (with the original signal), if you wanted. This of course needs sample accurate latency compensation.

There you have it, have a good sunday

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestions. We will consider adding them in future versions.

For the M/S view option, we are unsure about the editing operations in M/S view mode when the Mid or Side channel is disabled. Do you know of any software that supports this view option?  Additionally, you can use the Channel Mixer to convert a file to Mid/Side.

   

Soundop allows you to route tracks to different device channels when using ASIO devices. You can send audio from the master track for monitoring. If we add the monitoring FX panel, the monitoring effects will only apply to the master track output. This could pose a problem if you are monitoring on multiple devices. If you know of other software with similar features, please give us some references.

We are not aware of any VST plugin hosts that support solo and mix functions. Implementing these features would require additional buffering and processing for each effect, and also complicate the user interface for all users. These are the issues we intend to avoid. You may use Parallel FX Groups to create a delta solo or mixed version of a specific effect.

Welcome your further suggestions.

Best regards.