Suggestions for new features and improvements for Garageband

Hi,
I posted this to iCompositions but don't know who would be exposed to it as far as Apple goes. Just thought I would list a sort of wish list for GB that would make a huge difference for me.
Most are just basic interface improvements and changes. Some you may already be able to do and I'm unaware.
1. A click track option would be nice.
2. A space to write production notes as in guitar used and pickup used.
3. A Telecaster and Strat icon for the track icons.
4. When you duplicate a track it also duplicates the region(s) of the track.
5. An edit (highlight) button on a region to mark where editing needs to happen. This could be saved for future reference and quick navigation to.
6. More control over the loop button on tracks. If you want to move it to another section it ***** to get at both ends and drag it to where it needs to be.
7. Audio Interface volume booster. I don't get the same input from my M-Audio Ozone as I do via input of my guitar through a direct box. Not even close. Maybe it's my interface?
8. More than one effect(s) on the same track.
This is my wish list.
ej
G5   Mac OS X (10.4.9)   PowerPC G5 Dual 2 GHz 1GB SDRAM

First of all, if you want Apple to listen to your suggestions, you better use the feedback forms, since this is a user forum and is very rarely visited by Apple employees.
As for your list: People in this forum have put together a huge wishlist which somehow differs from yours (see this thread, for example). Top of the list are midi export, variable tempo and volume and effect automation.
As for your no.8:
8. More than one effect(s) on the same track.
You can have up to 4 effects on each track (plus the not very effective compression slider), 2 of them are restricted to echo and reverb.

Similar Messages

  • New Features and Improvements for CS6

    IMPORTANT:
    By default, Photoshop comes with the Proofing Colors (Cmd/Ctrl+Y) activated and set to CMYK. Adobe must warn about that, because I was editing a large amount of pictures for work and I was doing it under that color profile/work space.
    LAYERS PANEL:
    Layer Adjustments:
    Solid Color: visual feedback in real time.
    Gradient: IDEM as above.
    Pattern: IDEM as above.
    Gradient Map: IDEM as above.
    Gradient Editor: IDEM as above.
    Opacity and Fill: IDEM as above.
    Curves and Levels: Ability to load alfa channels. This way, the adjustments made on the alfa channel won't be destructive.
    CHANNELS PANEL:
    Channel Luminosity Selection:
    Ability to add and subtract from the selection.
    Ability to designate an area to be selected.
    For point 1, by using the shortcut Cmd+Alt+[number] the luminosity of a channel is loaded as selection. With Cmd+Alt+Shift+[number], the selection grows. But there is no way to subtract from selection (unless by clicking with the mouse on the channel's thumbnail). I think that can be solved by using Cmd+Alt+Shift+[- or +] in order to subtract or add from selection.
    Point 2 maybe even more important than point 1, because it allows selecting a designated area by the user, instead of the default luminosity selection, which ranges from 50% of the mid tones to the highlights (or shadows, if the selection is inverted). The user should be allowed to select the starting and finishing points of the luminosity selection.
    I thought 2 ways for solving these issues (and making it more intuitive and faster):
    A) By using the Histogram Panel, by dragging and highlighting an area on it, that it should load the selected luminosity pixels as a selection, as shown in figure 1:
      figure 1
    So the result of doing that will be a selection based on the area of the histogram that have been highlighted.
    B) By creating a new Adjustment Layer:
    It can be based in the same structure of the HUE Adjustment Layer, like figure 2 shows:
    Figure 2
    Or it can be this way (much better). Figure 3:
    Figure 3
    The selection can also be controlled by using the Click and Drag as suggested in the figure 1, as shown in the figure 4:
    Figure 4
    The overlaid highlighting over the histogram can be functional or just a mere graphic representation of the Range and Fade Selector. The "Fading" areas should be also be draggable in order to increase smooth the selection. However, the smoothing can be much better done with the Refining Selection tool and it can be ignored from this new tool.
    In any of these cases, the adjustments should give real time feedback when growing or shrinking selection; we must see the selection going bigger or smaller and also, the highlighted area should be draggable as well.
    TOOLS PANEL:
    Brush: detect edges while painting on masks (for manual mask refining. It would work similar to the Replace Color Brush, but only for masks and alfa channels). It also needs a shortcut to set the opacity.
    Dodge & Burn: Protect Tones should be allowed when painting on masks or alfa channels (for manual mask refining). D&B can also use edge detection as well.
    FILTERS:
    Some of them, like the ones involving Blur or the High-Pass and the Unsharp Mask filter, should work in real time (these ones, at the least).
    It can also added a Particle Generator Filter.
    It would be really nice having the ability to create particles such as dust, fog, rain, snow, etc in a more realistic manner than just the scattering function from the Brush Palette, or by mixing different filters with different blends. The Particle Generator should have an slider to control the depth of field, so it will give a feeling of depth and also, a way to load masks, so that way, the particles can exists before the image and also, behind. It would be great for creating a nice feeling of depth (kind of a bokeh effect).
    I've been playing with After Effect few times, and the way to create shapes and forms from nothing is the way of easier than in Photoshop.
    TIME LINE:
    I think it's time give dynamism the filters applied to a movie clip, and also, dynamics to the fade effects, like it happens in After Effects by adding Bezier Curves.
    HISTOGRAM:
    It should be possible to zoom in into the histogram, for a more precise feedback and analysis of the image tonal values.
    ADDITIONAL FEATURES:
    The fade tool should work in real time.
    Loupe/Magnificator View:
    This is very useful when it comes to edit and image in detail, with a lot of zoom, like 3200%. Unfortunately, Photoshop doesn't provide a real time feedback in an additional window, such as the Window/Arrange/New Window For […].
    It would be really useful having a window showing the image at fit on the screen while working on the other window at 100% or 3200% of zoom, but in real time. This way, you can see if you're doing a good job on the pixels or, if you're overdoing it.
    It happens that, when working with big images at 100% of the image size (or more), the brain cannot figure out how is looking the whole image, so having a realtime feedback in the other window would help a lot for detailled work.
    And why not, ading the same real time structure descrived above but to the Navigator, for faster and lighter use of the hardware capabilities. Probably, adding a check box to the navigator that blocks it to a given zoom, so when zooming into the image in the navigator, the image shown in the window isn't magnified too.
    Give me a chance to show you some examples of what I have done by improvising particles and fog about 5 years ago:
    http://mart1980.deviantart.com/gallery/5027033#/d1m119x
    And what I did 7 years ago by manually, selecting different shades of gray and using just Levels for 8 hours (which coule be done faster and easier with another tool I thought, which I will post later):
    I cannot post examples of the other features I'm suggesting because there are not such new features yet (I would have to create an hipothetical enviroment, but I think, you can fiure it out in your mind).
    Unfortunately, I don't know programing, even though, I tried something with Filter Factory, achieving good results, but that pluging consumes too much resources and/or is bad designed/have not the right tools for certain things.
    Hope this post is enough worthy of the Adobe's attention.
    Thanks,
    س

    This is a poorly explained reason about why is so important having a loupe in Photoshop. I've not also, used the best example, but I will. This belongs to the ADDITIONAL FEATURES: Loupe/Magnificator View:. Also, I will try to make my english clrearer, but here it goes:

  • Question regarding suggestion of new features

    I'm probably going to touch on a sensitive topic, but please hear me out. In working with some legacy systems and I have the need to deal with unsigned values. Needless to say this is difficult to do in Java. There are some work around solutions, but they are hardly ideal. I would like to suggest this feature be added to the language. The question I have is how do I go about suggesting a new feature and get the ball rolling? Is it as simple as forking and developing it all yourself hoping it gets merged in or does it mean you have to go through the JCP?
    Thoughts?

    TuringPest wrote:
    you still havent shown that you NEED unsigned ints.
    That's kind of an odd statement. Let me see if I'm hearing you right. I don't NEED unsigned ints because I can always cast them up to longs, etc and handle them that way? Does the fact that one is not the other play a role? Say like I were to commit that back to a database (or worse, a binary file). I'd have to always do some conversion and handle an overflow possibility because I'm treating it as a long...
    also, there might be another good reason beyond the fact that they arent really necessary:
    the java opcodes were made to fit into a byte.
    as it is now, a lot of those opcodes are used
    for primitive conversions and every permutation of primitive arithmetic.
    if they added 4 more primitives to the existing 6...Couldn't that statement apply to any language addition? "I'm sorry I shouldn't do it because I've only got a byte and need to save it for more useful stuff."

  • How to a make a suggestion about new features i'd like to see in itunes

    how to a make a suggestion about new features i'd like to see in itunes?
    I can't find any link to do this. I found a page where you can request songs or an album to be added, but i can't find a page to submit my suggestions for itunes i have for new features i'd like to see

    As of now there is no good, direct link for feedback on iTunes itself. Writing Apple might be the best option, with the website feedback page perhaps the next best.

  • BlackBerry Playbook upgrade OS v1.0.5.230​4 introduces a variety of new features and enhancemen​ts

    From the Inside BlackBerry Blog:
    a new BlackBerry® Tablet OS update is now available! BlackBerry Tablet OS v1.0.5 introduces a variety of new features and enhancements...
    Facebook
    In-Apps Payment Support
    Charging and Battery Pop-up (charging when powered off)
    Additional Language Support:
    Video Chat Connectivity
    Wi-Fi Hotspot Detection
    Headset Audio Boost
     Head over to the Inside BlackBerry Blog for more details of the changelog on this upgrade. 
    What features or changes are you seeing added in this update?
    1. If any post helps you please click the below the post(s) that helped you.
    2. Please resolve your thread by marking the post "Solution?" which solved it for you!
    3. Install free BlackBerry Protect today for backups of contacts and data.
    4. Guide to Unlocking your BlackBerry & Unlock Codes
    Join our BBM Channels (Beta)
    BlackBerry Support Forums Channel
    PIN: C0001B7B4   Display/Scan Bar Code
    Knowledge Base Updates
    PIN: C0005A9AA   Display/Scan Bar Code

    I too was not excited about the facebook upgrade but the other enhancements are nice. I'd like to see a Linked app.

  • New features and changed functionalities (11.3 == 11.10)

    Hi,
    I am looking for a way to get a consolidated new features and changed functionalities between (11.5.3) to (11.5.10) we upgraded on a test instance and could not find a source for these info ..
    thanks
    Firas Al Tamimi
    [email protected]

    thanks Grant,
    i have found it:
    'Forms version 11 is planned to be part of Oracle Application server version 11, which is planned in 12-15 months, which means summer 2007. Forms will not participate in the 10.1.3 platform, so the version 11 will be the first after the current 10.1.2 line.'
    You can find the full article at:
    http://www.oratransplant.nl/2006/06/07/oracles-plans-for-forms-version-11/
    thanks again, I have been very happy after I read all features and your comment on 'Forms is not dead'
    Regards
    Rosario

  • New features and changes in 2007 B

    Hi All,
    What are the new features and changes(IDs, Objects, New objects in 2007 B ?

    Hi Anuj,
              I just found an article for the query.Just give it a look.
    SAP Business One 2007 [original link is broken]
    Hoping your query is resolved.Have a best day ahead.

  • I would suggest a new feature:The possibilty to change the mouse pointer icon when you hover on an a

    I would suggest a new feature:The possibilty  to change the mouse pointer icon when you hover on an active link by any other one icon I select.

    Current Firefox versions have a feature called tear-off tabs.<br />
    You can detach a tab from the current window and open it in a new window by dragging a tab in the browser window.<br />
    You can drag that tab back to the tab bar in the original window to undo that detaching.
    bug489729 (Disable detach and tear off tab):
    * https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/bug489729-disable-detach-and-t

  • Creating a conditional index? How to suggest a new feature?

    How can I suggest a new feature in Oracle?
    Imagine a table of service requests to be processed, where a column named STATUS can be: 'N': New, 'C': Canceled or 'P': Processed. This will result in a biased distribution where 'P' will represent more than 99% of rows.
    I know that Oracle accept indexes created using functions and I can create an index on decode(STATUS,'P',null,STATUS) to make index small. But it will not help a query on STATUS = 'N' condition.
    I would like to create a conditional index like:
    create index idx01 on service_requests (status) where status <> 'P';
    In this example, only status 'N' and 'C' will be indexed resulting in a very small index that can resolve filters like STATUS = 'N'.
    Or this:
    create index idx01 on some_tables (column1 including null values); to resolve COLUMN1 is NULL
    Is there a way to suggest new features like this?

    How can I suggest a new feature in Oracle?
    Imagine a table of service requests to be processed, where a column named STATUS can be: 'N': New, 'C': Canceled or 'P': Processed. This will result in a biased distribution where 'P' will represent more than 99% of rows.
    I know that Oracle accept indexes created using functions and I can create an index on decode(STATUS,'P',null,STATUS) to make index small. But it will not help a query on STATUS = 'N' condition.
    I would like to create a conditional index like:
    create index idx01 on service_requests (status) where status <> 'P';
    In this example, only status 'N' and 'C' will be indexed resulting in a very small index that can resolve filters like STATUS = 'N'.
    Or this:
    create index idx01 on some_tables (column1 including null values); to resolve COLUMN1 is NULL
    Is there a way to suggest new features like this?
    A new feature isn't needed. Oracle provides the equivalent of that 'conditional index' by allowing you to create, and index, VIRTUAL columns.
    This code uses a VIRTUAL column and then creates an index on it.
    drop table test_status
    create table test_status (col1 number,
         status varchar2(1),
         special_status generated always as (decode(STATUS,'P',null,STATUS)
    create index idx01 on test_status (special_status)

  • Better process for introducing new features and explaining how they work

    There are all kinds of new features being added to the Creative Cloud app but knowing what they are and learning about how they work isn't the most user friendly process. The current process is read the release notes after updating to a new version. The release notes should hyperlink to the related features in the product help. It would be great if there was a "What's New" section for the Creative Cloud app itself with new releases which included an introduction to new features just like there is for the desktop products.

    This is a poorly explained reason about why is so important having a loupe in Photoshop. I've not also, used the best example, but I will. This belongs to the ADDITIONAL FEATURES: Loupe/Magnificator View:. Also, I will try to make my english clrearer, but here it goes:

  • Is there a roadmap for Edge Animate for new features and releases in the future?

    where can i found a roadmap for the next releases of Edge animate and new features?

    Hi tsiky64,
    I think you might need to check the screen shot attached: Tech specs | Adobe Reader XI
    To download other version of Reader you may visit : Acrobat-Reader Enterprise Toolkit Home
    Regards,
    Ajlan Huda.

  • New Features or improvements for Bibeans

    Hello,
    I ask what should be the major Enhancements/New Features
    for Bibeans and a approximate date for the new release.
    Thanks

    A major enhancement is a series of JSP tags that will simplify the thin development. Also, you will have the thin version of the Querybuilder and Calcbuilder.
    The next version will be available this summer.
    Thanks

  • Ipod New Features and Functions Suggestions?

    I'm sure with the continuous updates for the Ipod Software that there is a place where we can make suggestions but I can't find it? That said, I have an idea I would like to post so that someone from development could take under consideration. As well this could be a thread for other's ideas as I'm sure we all have them. Here we go:
    1. Wouldn't it be great if while listening to music on your iPod using the shuffle feature, if you heard a song you like, you could press a button and have it return directly to the album from where it's located. When you have 20 - 60 GB of songs, scrolling back through menus to get to artists or songs is long and painful. This would also save serious battery time, etc.
    2. How about a feature on Itunes that allows you to sort or count how many songs (and size) that you have checked versus what you don't. I have 60 gb of music but only a 20gb iPod. Currently you have to use the "Allow iPod to create a playlist" feature to select 20 GB worth of music and then edit from there.

    There is a form you can use to submit suggestions for future iPods; messages submitted there will be read by the iPod engineers, while suggestions posted here may not be.
    (8995)

  • InDesign CC 2014 tryout has only some new features and some others are old: strangest thing ever.

    Hi everyone, I have installed a tryout on InDesign CC 2014 today to work on epubs. The app is having all sort of problems. It crashed while making packages. I resetted the prefs and this was fixed.
    But the most annoying and strange things are the new features: some are showing (like the export fixed layout epub option), others are not (interactivity menu is exactly the old one, bookmarks options in export panel are not showing).
    I had uninstalled it and installed again. It is still not working. I work on an iMac with sys 10.9.5 (Yosemite).
    I need to keep the old version running for compatibility issues. I can't delete it.
    I am stuck: any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.

    For example: I have the "export fixed layout epub" (which I do not have in InDesign CC) , but I do not have the bookmarks option in the export panel. I still see SWF preview, but not the epub interactivity menu under -> view -> interactivity. To be more precise: I am following a Lynda.com course about epub: I'm not guessing what to look for or what button to click. I have to follow very careful instruction step-by-step that I can't follow because the program miss some parts.
    I attach an image to better explain. It's in italian, but if you just count the options you will see that one is missing: the bookmark (and last) one.

  • One More Rant as to Fios features and "improvements"

    What kind of marketers does fios have that force their programmers to do such a horrid job?
    my wife and i got up this morning. beautiful sunny morning, warm for the first time. we turned on the tv, and saw a show we wanted, so i hit record... as she was getting ready for the day, i saw one that we could watch with breakfast. so i paused the movie, and we went to make breakfast... made it, came back, went to watch the movie, fast forward to its start.
    my wife then aks for the description of the movie... so you hit play, the menu comes up.. .
    it goes away too fast and so she asked me to display it again.
    i hit it, and now, for some screwed up reason, it throws me to on demand
    i dont want on demand. on demand cant pause, the play back is bad, when its bad you cant restart and move to where you were, you cant skip, and the list goes on on how horrible its implemented.
    but you dont have a choice.. your watching a movie from the beginig with full features, and now fios things you want to go to on demand to watch what your watching with reduced features... screwed up
    but, when we get back to the channel to see the movie... its now fast forwarded to current time, and fios has deleted the lead time so you cant go back
    in fact, fios does this alot... unlike directv, which says, if you save some movie time, dont delete it.
    fios says, if you save some movie time too bad, we know better, we will delete it, and peeve you off, then force you to a free on demand of the same movie wiht fewer features.
    but now... you go to the movie on demand, click the hd like you had and go to try to watch and what do you get? a completely unwatchable scrambled mess that cant play no matter how many times you try.
    so isnt that great... we have a wonderful morning.  save a bit of time to cook a great breakfast, sit down happy to watch, and voila... the fios programming is so horrid it ruins your morning...  you dont get to watch what you want, you lose what you have, your now **bleep** off at the DVR and you know that as long as your stuck on crap city dvr programming, your going to hae to deal with this oer and over
    the new feature to go watch what your already watching is insanely stupid and horrid..
    why does fios think that you want to stop what you are watching with longer pause time, ability to go back wards and forwards.. .which is critical to be able to get rid of the audio artifacts that constantly come up and scramble the voice.
    this is one reason my wife and i try to avoid watchnig on demand. it not only wont let you back up to get rid of the audio crud, but will lose your location... want to really have fun? watch a movie for an hour and a half be on the last 15 minutes, get audio artifacts scrambling the sound, and now you have to watch 1 and a half hours with commercials to get back to what you were just watching.. 
    oh joy
    not to mention another issue is that you pay for 75megs... and then fios takes the time to slowly move your speed down farther and farter unless you watch it and call and spend an hour getting what you paid for.... ie, their norm is to cheat you from what you pay for, to some lower rate and pocket the money.
    right now, i pay for 75, i get 50, and sometimes it drops to 30...
    why pay for 75, if you only get 50..
    why have to keep calling to stop them from cheating you? i earn money when not calling fios.. .
    and i know its a cheat as they never make a mistake in your favor.
    you never ever subscribe to 50 and accidently get 75.
    what a freaking mess..
    my wife and i are disussion paying more to get away from this horrid thing.
    and its been horrid this way for two years of our subscription
    the idea that the DVR delete time you have saved sucks big time.
    the fact your disk drive is too small to record everything so this doesnt happen sucks
    the fact that they replace commercials with stuff that is connected to google and facebook really sucks
    [i went online looked up some stuff and for months had to see the same commercial over and over for some scam options trading book i dont want, never wanted, was never interested in, etc... but i could not shut it off to see other commercials. even worse, they will do this after you buy the product in other cases. i was at work, needed to search for something, now that something my company purchased is unundating me with ads for something i already purchased!!!!]
    the idea that fios changes the operation of the DVR then blames you for not knowing the changes, or being used to how it is and you been using it for years...  
    all that stuff is completely annoying... as is having to get a pin number to log in every time as passwords dont work right. i had to create a diferent forum id, as the system would not let me log in with the one i have... so i have to reregeister to post most times...
    they would be the best company in the world if it wasnt for the idea that they leverage the great tech to mistreat their customers, give bad service, program the dvr with substandard choices of operation, cheat them out of bandwidth stealing time from their lives they wont get back to tell them to up it again..  (sorry, i am a programmer in researxh computing, its not hard to know how much bandwitth your delivering and compare that with the contract rate.  if i didnt pay my bill, you would harm my credit, my family, and future... but you get to cheat the customer out of bandwith they pay for, and what happens? nothing...
    of ourse this rant will go nowhere...   why should it?
    its not like they will refud me the money for bandwidth they didnt deliver (as i dont have the time to have some person who can barely program tell me to reboot hundred times and waste an hour before saying, its on our side. etc).
    its not like they will change dvr programming to presere what you want, and not dump it cause they want to
    the way i see it, the only reason for them to dump what your watching to see what your watching is so that they can fluff up the numbers on the on demand services when reporting growth to shareholders... ie. scamming the investors.
    there is no other real reason to have that other than scamming or incompetence. and neither are good... are they?
    dumping what people are watching for the same thing with less features cant be spun into a postive.. can it?
    thats it for now...
    rather than watch a movie this morning and being happy, we did not get to have that
    in fact, we are thinking why bother with a service that constistently changes a good day into a bad day as a NORMALcourse of business?
    [i have been a customer since their bell atlantic days... their tech is great, but this stuff really stinks and with their money and so forth, they could do a lot better... switching back to directv may be the only way to go as that dvr does not do the stupid horrid stuff that fios does, it preserves your shows, and overall, the software is much better, without any artifacts or scrambling all the time...
    i suspect that i will lose this online name again... why not?  they lost the other one and locked me out of that...

    There are settings you can change or disable for some of the issues you mention. you should go into the menu's settings and explore. Turn off promotions, etc..

Maybe you are looking for