My bunch of suggestions

Hi everyone! I wrote some post´s last week. And i got always quick and helpful responses. Thank you so much! As i don´t want to flood the community with posts i decided to sum up my suggestions, requests for hookpad here. I priorized the suggestions loosely by my personal most wanted first.

1. The possiiblity to convert midifiles into “styles” / band content. Pleaser refer to post: Importing midifiles to styles

2. Input Chordparser. The option to input more than one chord at the time in the Search dialog box seperated by comma. Typing C/G,dm,E7,am would insert those 4 chords at once.

It should also be possible to export selected chords as a textstring in the same format. There could be an entry like “Export selected chords as text to clipboard” in the file menu.

This way you could easily create progression snippets, build up your own favorite progs database and also share them with the community. How awesome would that be!

Even better would be the possibiltiy to optionally include the chord duration. A resolution of 1/16 notes would be sufficient. If durations are not included all chords should be inserted with the duration choosen in the upper left corner of hookpad.

The multiples of a 1/16 note length could be added behind the chord seperated by ; for example.

C/G;16,dm;16,E7;8,am;8

In this example the first two chords would be one bar and the third and fourth would be half a bar long. It would be great if the resulting progression would be previewed as usual right from the box.

3. Displaying the time passed since a definable Song Begin Bar. The time could be displayed right of the bar number. So for Bar 64 it could look like this: 64 (1:23). This way no extra ruler would be necessary. You may agree that time is critical for writing songs, scores. Every DAW provides a timeruler for that reason.

4. I love to use the dark theme. But the bar numbers as well as the Band and Sectionsnames are coloured dark grey on darker grey and are hardly visible. Could you brighten those text to make it more visible, please? Like the colour of the two cicular arrows of the loop indicator.

5. Adding the option to pan, to stereoposition the indivudual tracks of the band. That would clearly bring the audio experience to the next level.

6. A reverb, chorus send there would also be great.

7. One or more recordable audiotracks would be awesome. The corresponding .wav - file could be stored locally on the pc. Some simple editing functions like cutting and positioning horizontally would be sufficient.

8. A simple notepad where you can write and store notes with a hookpad file would really be nice and handy.

I am curious, what you think of those eight suggestions. By the way, is there a beta test program to apply to?

Thanks
Alex

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