The feature I am requesting is automatically maintaining a DI track for every audio track. The benefit is to streamline workflows that use DI tracks for re-amping later. I envision the following workflow:
- Every audio track has a separate DI input setting (global and per track) so that every time I create a new track there is an implicit, hidden but accessible DI track.
- The DI track follows the main tracks 'R' but users must manually activate 'S', 'U', and 'M' where 'M' is engaged by default. In other words, the DI track is visually and aurally transparent by default.
- The DI track follows all of the same edits of the main audio track, e.g., splicing, fades, gaining, etc. This is similar to how shared or ghost copies work, but across tracks.
- This is my main pain-point when working with DI tracks. My current workflow requires two separate armed tracks, one for the DI and the other with the amp/effects. When I am capturing ideas and demoing songs I frequently edit the amp track and the DI track gets out of sync very quickly.
- When I want to re-amp I follow the normal steps by assigning the DI to an output and arming a landing track.
Depending on how automated and streamlined this feature could be, there is opportunity to offer re-amping as a first class citizen where the user selects the track they want to re-amp, clicks "re-amp", and the DAW supplies the output track in a bin and the track can be drag n dropped anywhere. There would be some one-time setup to enable this but currently that setup has to occur per track.
