Feature Request: Improved loop control (a.k.a. poor man's loop based sequencing)

[Gimmeapill]

Dear Rui,

I understand loop based sequencing may not be a high priority (as with other linear DAWs - fair enough), but wouldn't it be possible to improve a bit the looping control to make it more "pattern like"? I'm thinking here about moving the loop section on the fly while playing with keyboard shortcuts / midi cc. Something like "Shift current loop section's next start point forward/backward by X beats", and once the play head reach that start, move the loop end marker accordingly and continue looping without disruption. Or one step further: define several loop boundaries and bind them to keyboard shortcuts / midi and jump there on the next loop occurence.

The only implementation examples I am aware of who do that well are trackers: Renoise & Buzz for example. I hope this makes kind of sense, and apologies if the feature was already dismissed - I didn't find it mentioned anywhere.

[rncbc]

something like that about location markers and scripting arein the long term plans. yes.

cheers.

[Gimmeapill]

Just saw your note on Ableton_link and transport modes in the latest release notes. This goes in the same direction isn't it?

[rncbc]

i guess it's not the same direction at all. at least in terms of anything related to loop-control.

ableton_link is kinda a plg-and-play, shared metronome, so it tells peers or participants a common tempo (bpm) and beat phase to link in on the fly.

whether you can take advantage of jack_link for jack-transport-aware applications, such as qtractor, is probably a way too vague of a stretch in regard to loop-control, if you know what i mean.

cheers

[Gimmeapill]

Ah ok, thanks for the clarification. Yes, that's probably not very useful in qtractor yet. But getting rock solid on the fly bpm and measure sync with the ableton world for jack applications (if I understood correctly what this jack_link is about) sounds like a rather good thing to have. Interesting :-)