(if this has been suggested before, i apologise)
I like to use a lot of automations. This always results in the timeline being 60-90% automations with only a few important instruments. As a project scales, it becomes increasingly difficult to find exactly what I am looking for in the timeline because of all the automations populating the visual space.
I am suggesting simple show/hide buttons (left panel where the device names are displayed) so that the automations for each device can be shown/hidden to clear things up.
For example, if my pulverisateur has 2 notetracks, 2 osc pan automations and a tune automation - if I hit the "hide automations" button, the notetracks will remain as normal but the 3 automations will temporarily disappear OR be replaced by much thinner horizontal lines (instead of the current 'automation preview' style).
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This is a great idea. Actually, I think that it would be great to generalize the time-line view into a hierarchical tree structure, where different levels of the hierarchy could be collapsed (hidden) or expanded (shown) selectively. At the top level would be the device, and all of its tracks could be shown or hidden. Next level would be groups containing all tracks of each type (note, pattern where applicable, automation, audio). And the third and last level would be individual tracks. You could also have options to order each level by name (alphabetically), type, creation time or manually. I think that this would add lots of functionality to the view.
haha collapse/expand were the words I was looking for ;) but yes some sort of hierarchy would be good. to me this kind of feature is necessary to continue workflow as a project grows
Reminds me of IDEs that have those quick collapse/expand function body things.
yeah haha. i utilise that kind of thing a lot when coding. it's just nice to have