This is again inspired by Ableton. With a plugin, we can click a 'configure' button, and then any touched controls appear in the device's panel. We can do this differently for different instances of the plugin, and also save the configuration as a default. It would be nice to be able to create a control panel for a synth that shows only a few essential parameters. This is connected to the idea of macros in containers.
Resolution
Often a synth has a tiny slider for a parameter in order to fit everything in. It would be nice to have panels that allow us to zoom in on a parameter, such as ADSR controls where the sliders take up the entire height of a larger control panel, so that instead of dragging a fader in a range of 50 pixels, we can instead have a 500 pixel high slider when we want fine control. Implementing this at the panel level means that plugin developers don't have to do this themselves for each and every plugin.
We know something like this is possible, since:
- Reaper allows us to create an envelope from the last moved parameter, so it knows what it is.
- There is the option of a default interface, consisting of a long list of sliders. Being able to create a small subset of these (so we have a few subsets) allowing for better control of what plugin authors often cram into a small part of the screen.
More generally being able to easily construct control panels as we find them in e.g. Falcon or Contact, would be nice.