The latest band template changes have greatly decreased my productivity/workflow and discouraged me from enjoying little ‘sketch’ sessions on Hookpad by adding many, unnecessary extra clicks and making it impossible to keep track of where you left off if trying to quickly preview different templates before deciding on one.
It used to be that I could compose some music and then quickly switch through my custom bands with a single click on an always-visible list until something fit. The selection would also stay where I last clicked, making it easy to pick up where I left off.
But now you have to CLICK to open a now HIDDEN menu, CLICK on the user tab, CLICK on the scroll bar to locate a template then either CLICK on the template and CLICK ‘Open’ or DOUBLE-CLICK the template. This has quadrupled to quintupled the amount of clicks just it previously took to switch templates… And to make matters worse, it doesn’t leave the selection on the last template you had selected, so now you have to remember the exact template you last used (no indication of the name of the template you’re currently on anymore!) and scroll down to it to move onto the next one. This is incredibly disheartening, especially for people with text memory and dyslexia issues…
What is the point of the of over-complication and obfuscation of a previously fast, easy, working system? If there’s no plans to revert these new, clunky changes, can we please get the old selector back as an alternative method for switching?
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