I think markers are awesome, but their UI is rather difficult to use and not very user friendly. I think markers would be much easier to use if they were displayed as graphs, in a secondary tab of the sequencer. Perhaps the OS UI in general can be improved, to have the MIDI editor in a tab, the instrument settings in a tab, the markers in a tab, and maybe another tab for a song description and whatever. I feel like this could be done fairly easily and make OS more user friendly and quick to work with.
The new UI for the markers could be similar to the way automations are displayed in a DAW, where you can add an automation track for a specific instrument setting, and add points to a graph that represents what the automation does. This way it is easy to see what the markers are doing, and easier to edit them, as they are not just signs stacked upon each other with no obvious title or value.
Here is an image of what I am imagining. Look at the lines and points,not the waveforms:
![[Image: 780257.png]](https://medias.audiofanzine.com/images/normal/780257.png)
On the suggested tabbed system of OS, for the instrument settings, it would be a lot less annoying with all the popup windows that need to be opened and closed all the time, and many instruments advanced settings would be all visible without the need to close a bunch of subwindows, allowing for faster editing of multiple parameters on many instruments. It also would allow for more space if new features for the instruments are added.
Another feature that would be interesting is to be able to "key" a parameter to a marker from the instrument settings, at the blue bar, but this may be a little more difficult to do and I don't think it would offer too much of a better user experience, compared to the above UI suggestions.
I really would be interested in users and developers thoughts on the suggested UI. Please comment below on your thoughts of this UI suggestion!
The new UI for the markers could be similar to the way automations are displayed in a DAW, where you can add an automation track for a specific instrument setting, and add points to a graph that represents what the automation does. This way it is easy to see what the markers are doing, and easier to edit them, as they are not just signs stacked upon each other with no obvious title or value.
Here is an image of what I am imagining. Look at the lines and points,not the waveforms:
On the suggested tabbed system of OS, for the instrument settings, it would be a lot less annoying with all the popup windows that need to be opened and closed all the time, and many instruments advanced settings would be all visible without the need to close a bunch of subwindows, allowing for faster editing of multiple parameters on many instruments. It also would allow for more space if new features for the instruments are added.
Another feature that would be interesting is to be able to "key" a parameter to a marker from the instrument settings, at the blue bar, but this may be a little more difficult to do and I don't think it would offer too much of a better user experience, compared to the above UI suggestions.
I really would be interested in users and developers thoughts on the suggested UI. Please comment below on your thoughts of this UI suggestion!
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