1: Allow the avid to remember when it has imported a stereo file - and always gang the faders for its tracks together on the audio mix tool. But also allow that link to be turned off when wanted.

2: Make the audio mix tool show all tracks at once. No more switching to "Grp 2"

3: Allow timeline tracks to be assigned as stereo/mono and gang faders togther automatically. This would over-ride the clip setting described above.

If you do only these things my hands and wrists will thank you very much.

Amen!

Please, if you want this - add your voice to this thread. Every day I click hundreds of times when I shouldn't have to. It's such a basic need for improvement.

I'll add to this request also - please make it possible to adjust the volume of a track *while listening to it* - don't stop the timeline from playing when clicking on the mixer levels. I'm not talking about recording a mixdown - I simply want to change the one overall level on a clip while monitoring it. I don't want to memorize the fader moves I make while adusting the level.

Oh, yes, Please! Both the ganging of stereo pairs and the ability to listen to and change a level or EQ.

I loudly, and in ganged stereo, add my voice to this request;

even though my finger is worn out already today from all those extra unneccary mouse clicks.

Add my vote for it as well.

I would had a great feature found in Liquid. The ability to right click on a clip in the timeline and open it's clip properties. Then, the ability to change the clip's settings from stereo to mono, etc.

You can even do that on multiple clips at once, directly in the timeline.

Yes this was awesome in L.

Yes Please! I have been caught many times with changing levels on the ganged channels on the invisible group. A very un-Avid arrangement. Audio Mix tool should automatically reflect and provide control of all the channels in the timeline. Pretty obvious really.

Don't know why I haven't griped about this before, so thanks postmark!

It's good to finally see people voting for this! Thanks to all. I might now be able to put off wrist surgery.

Let me be a bit more specific on the last point. My scheme for this option would mean being able to set pairs of adjacent odd/even tracks (1/2 - 3/4 - 5/6 - 7/8 etc) as either being ganged together or not.

Actually I guess it would be even better to be able to gang even larger blocks of tracks together. I'm getting more and more 4 channel audio from the field these days. Maybe put a pulldown menu on the mixer for each track that can add check marks next to the tracks you want to gang with it. Then come up with a nice way to visually indicate which tracks are ganged together. Colors or something? Perhaps the colors from the timeline tracks? Then another button on the mixer to toggle the ganging on and off for each group.

It would be oh so nice to set a balance between different tracks from the same source (such as a few lavs from different people) and then be able to vary that group's overall level at once.

One note on the ganging - tracks which have been set to 0 (infinity / completely off) should stay that way, even if a member of its gang is moved. Then only way to get a track like that back in action would be to turn ganging off and raise its level.

But I still would like Avid to remember when it has imported a stereo file and gang its tracks together by default. Perhaps there should be an import setting that specifies whether you are importing a stereo or multiple mono files.

Oh, and when the avid imports a single track file, please have its pan set to center by default, not left.

Gets my vote too!

My vote too.

postmark:

It's good to finally see people voting for this! Thanks to all. I might now be able to put off wrist surgery.

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I'm getting more and more 4 channel audio from the field these days...

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But I still would like Avid to remember when it has imported a stereo file and gang its tracks together by default. Perhaps there should be an import setting that specifies whether you are importing a stereo or multiple mono files.

Oh, and when the avid imports a single track file, please have its pan set to center by default, not left.

I'll throw my support behind these ideas.

Also, for years now, I've been saying I'd like to have separate routing control in the source and record (ie, the timeline) monitors.

Because it is getting very common to receive 4 channel audio from the field, I'd like to be able to leave the source monitor on direct out, routed to channels 1 thru 4, so I can hear them individually and decide which track(s) I want to cut in. But then I'd like the ability to preset pans and channel routing independently on the timeline. For instance, it'd be great if I could set the timeline to stereo playback, routed to channels 5 and 6, say, while leaving the the source in direct out.

I'd like the ability to set tracks 1-8 on the timeline to default to center-pan, then let higher pairs (ie 9/10 and 11/12) alternate L/R for music.

Actually, now that I think about it, just separate routing control over source and record would allow us to do this all at the outboard mixer.

I agree with these further refinements! But please also leave it flexible for those of us without an outboard mixer - something that also is becoming more common. I actually prefer losing the outboard mixer - we should be able to route everything we need - to a point - with the avid software.

I also remember something that has frustrated me over these long years with avid.

I never can seem to determine which source channels have been used in the timeline. It would be nice to use the timeline text display function to display the orignal source channel in addition to reel number, etc.

This is a great idea! Auto-Gang the imported faders anddo something in the timeline tokeepthem in synch.