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Reasonable Ideas: Suggestions for Reason

Think of anything else ?

General

• Beta versions : The link to the beta versions doesn't work for some users
• Faster startup time
• Free upgrades
• Keep perpetual licenses
• Release significant updates
• Thumbnails : Clean pictures of unused plugins automatically (delete files from hard disk)
• Thumbnails : Keep "_device" pictures and remove all "_browser" thumbnails

Sequencer

• Add crossfade types (presets and custom)
• Add DAW-worthy functions (MIDI tools, arithmetic operations, randomize functions)
• Automation : Invert vertically (events, automation points)
• Automation : Presets (curves, shapes), customizable shapes
• Blocks : Improve display and navigation (direct access like Redrum's pattern selection)
• Group tracks / Track folders
• Humanize selected notes
• Join notes with the same pitch : e. g. select two contiguous C# 1/8th notes, join them into a 1/4th note (same key shortcut as Join Clips : Ctrl+J)
• MIDI Note Chase (see Ableton Live)
• MIDI Out from VSTs (for generative sequencers such as Harmony Bloom)
• Multiple outputs from VSTs (e.g. orchestral VSTs)
• Quantize length (end of MIDI events)
• Quick riff generator
• Randomize pan
• Randomize velocity
• Scales & modes (same as Scales & Chords Player device, but live in the sequencer)
• Select notes per math functions (1 out of 3, etc.)
• Select velocities per range
• Song starters for various music genres (like FL Studio)
• Strum selected notes

Devices / User Interface

• Browser : Audio preview for patches
• Browser : Audio preview for REX, WAV and AIFF loops, time-stretched, bar-synced to the song's tempo (when song is playing)
• Browser : Audio preview for songs
• Browser : Audio preview with waveform
• Browser : Faster indexing of favorite folders
• Browser : MIDI preview (based on FX on current selected track)
• Browser : Option to toggle horizontal/vertical display
• Browser : Option to toggle thumbnail for devices (Text / Graphics / Text + Graphics)
• Browser : Search : Save the "Current Location / All Locations" checkbox state and load it upon restart (or add a checkbox option in the Settings window)
• Browser : Search by alias (users should be able to give an alias to REs and VSTs - e.g. "Radical Keys" could be called "Virtual Rhodes")
• Browser : Sort columns for Favorite folders (by Name, Parent, Date)
• Browser : Sorting options (clicking and dragging icons one by one just to sort items alphabetically is extremely tedious)
• Devices : All : Browse button : point to device's native (base) folder
• Devices : All : Randomize patch
• Devices : All : Toggle useless/unwanted animations (add a checkbox in the Settings window)
• Devices : Combinator 2 : Assign parameter through arrow click & drag (like Grain or Europa), instead of menu-diving
• Devices : Combinator 2 : Improve device, alignment ease, add items (display, new knob styles), add scripting
• Devices : Kong : ADSR (or at least Attack and Release) on all pads (for all engines)
• Devices : Kong : Automation on all parameters
• Devices : Mimic : Group select slots, to edit parameters for multiple slots at the same time
• Devices : Mimic : Import and export REX loops
• Devices : Mimic : Per slot : Offset start (add virtual silence before a sample or slice)
• Devices : Mimic : Send sample to track (bounce)
• Devices : Mimic : Set loop direction as you can do on a regular sampler : FW / FW-BW / BW / BW-FW
• Devices : Mimic : Set loop points (start and end) like Grain : mouse drags or sets position of start or end loop point
• Devices : Players : Set a Player's mix channel colour identical to the parent mix channel (or make it a checkbox option in the Settings window)
• Devices : Sample Editor : Make the window non modal, add genuine and serious sample editing tools (check FL Studio's Edison tool)
• UI : Colours : More application-wide, user-customizable colour schemes (we still have two options only, and they are fixed colour schemes !)
• UI : Colours : Replace colour names with a floating palette (check out concurrent DAWs : FL Studio or Studio One have GREAT options and features for colours)
• UI : Copy-Paste : Pasting a patch should replace destination with the appropriate device. For instance, if you copy a patch from a Kong device and paste it on a Redrum, "Paste patch" is disabled. It should be enabled, auto-detect the patch type, and replace the Kong with a Redrum.
• UI : Keyboard shortcuts : Escape key to close the VST window having the focus
• UI : Keyboard shortcuts : Fix "Move notes" shortcuts (Ctrl+Up/Down, Shift+Up/Down) not working after selecting "all identical notes" (double click on a note) in the Piano Roll
• UI : Mixer : More room for track names (or narrow font)
• UI : Popup menus : Build your own menu system, on more than 1 column, with icons and find-as-you-type textbox
• UI : Tools window : Rebuild it from scratch ; Add DAW-worthy features ; Make textboxes modern, so we can mouse-scroll values
• VST : "Keep open" icon : checked by default (or add an option to choose default state)
• VST : Scan VST folders without closing Reason