Idea: Global Automation display filter

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Automation lanes are super useful and cool but do incur a bit of overhead in terms of navigation. Some common scenarios/questions that come up:

  • What tracks am I automating the gain? Which tracks am I not?
  • What track did I automate that cool LFO sweep?
  • How "balanced" are my pan automation lanes?

The above questions are just examples and are not meant to suggest there aren't better (more mature methods) of attacking each question. They simply serve to remind us the current workflow involving these lanes is a bit of a "hunt and peck" approach (select track, select lane, rinse, repeat). All the while, there's no real quick way to see similar context (same lanes) across other tracks; not in one fell swoop anyway....

So I'll take a shot at explaining the idea...

Imagine if there were a A button or icon or whatever somewhere at the top of the Arranger window. Clicking it would display a list of all enabled automation lanes. Selecting something from the list would then show (only?) those lanes on every corresponding track. That might be really cool. No, I mean, that' might be really, really cool!

Of course, there would need to be a way to disable the above function which would revert the Arranger window to the normal/default behavior of displaying each track's selected automation lane.

Thoughts?

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