Region Menu as its own pane

Community Ideas for Ardour
#1

First : ardour is awesome!

I’ve been using it for about 2 years now, and one addition that I think would be great, is to have a more convenient interface to access all features that currently live inside the region contextual menu (loop, pitch shift, adjust gain/normalize, reverse, export, analysis…), at least everything that concerns the entire region.

Having a window or pane appear for the selected region filled with knobs (e.g. to adjust gain), and buttons would make my heavy region tweaking editing style a lot smoother to navigate (not having to right click, expand 1 or 2 contextual submenus to boost gain once).

The idea is inspired by ableton’s clip pane (screenshot below)

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Curious to know if others would agree, or if I’m missing something in how ardour’s meant to be used
Thanks!

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#2

Sort of like this:

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You’ve made some good suggestions on other things we could add “down there”

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#3

Yes like this ! I didn’t know you could pin the properties window at the bottom like this, I’ll try !
And yes populating this window with many other controls would be great. Is this planned in the relatively short term ? Asking because I might embark on a journey to try and contribute it directly