Automation/modulation improvements

I’d love to see mute automation across the time line or an easy way to record the lock states on the time line. There is a work around but it too hard to make it work in a manageable time. If I import a one shot or samples auto detect the key and link it across the pads and keys accordingly. I need to see all midi notes from other tracks in the piano roll all at once or would like to select multiple tracks to see the midi nots simultaneously in the piano roll and edit them! Let’s be honest just take almost every feature of the piano roll from FL and I’d be satisfied. Custom scales and chords would be an added benefit as well!! Also transpose to key quantize to key what ever you want to call it. For example If I made a beat in A flat minor and just want to transpose the entire beat C major! That would be a God send as well!!!

Midi LFO/Modulation of everything. Notes, pattern lenght, probability.

When NI calls it automation and the inference is that you can use it to control parameters such as volume, velocity etc, then it is understandable why people think of it in those terms. Generally, what is being called for is a proper editable system.

Surely if you are modulating say a volume amount over time, that could be available in the mixer or am I misunderstanding things?

Another vote here for aftertouch, very bizarre that it's never been developed, but there again you could say that about the other myriad of desired but very missing features.

Being honest, neither of those 'definitions' match what I rightly or wrongly view as 'automation' or my understanding of Maschine, and I'd say many others think similarly.

When I talk of 'automation' I think of recording a series of parameter changes that can be used as is or re-edited to control a parameter value. Something as simple as on / off or changes in volume /velocity over time so that when played again those values are in place and the scene will play as the 'automation' defines.

Those values are modulations controlled by the 'automated' values, hence I cannot understand why, say, the volume of a channel mixer could not be controlled in a similar fashion other than the fact the controls are not accessible in Maschine as it stands.

If I 'automate' (auto write) a value as the scene is playing, it isn't temporary, it's there till I either erase it or re-edit it.

So far I have never used an external source, unless you count the Maschine controller itself, to affect a change in parameter values.

I cannot actually understand the quoted manual entries.

I have never understood the advantage of modulation. My suggestion is to just get rid of the modulation system, so automation really means to set the value of a parameter and not a change in percentages.

If you write modulation for the filter cutoff into several patterns, and later decide that the movement is good but the sound should be slightly brighter in general, you can just go into the sound and open the filter a little bit more. With automation, you would jave to adjust or redo all of your written automation tracks.