I’m know the custom layers exists and that is very helpful, I primary live in the custom layers. When I need another channel, I just grab an unused one at random, add it to the customer layer and then move it to where I want it. But now my channels don’t make any sense, everything is spread out and mixed up, not ordered in any logical way. When I try to patch things, the patch window uses the channel order, not the custom layer order, so it’s hard to find things.
I’d like to be able to “move” channels around, so that I can keep all the drum channels together, all the keys, guitars, vocal, etc. together. I know I can’t actually move the channels. What I really want is a way to select a channel, say number 8, and then select another channel, maybe 13, and the input source of 8 and all of its settings and plugins will be copied to 13. And everything on channels 9 to 13 will be copied to the channel before it. So that everything works the same, but now the channels are in a different order.
This should be a trivial tasks, but in order to do this right now, I need to manually copy channel 8 and paste it to an unused channel (assuming I have one) and then go to 9, copy it and paste it to channel 8, then 10 to 9, then 11 to 10, then 12 to 11, then 13 to 12. Then copy 8 again and paste it on 13. That’s a long, tedious process. Ideally, I’d be able to drag channels around, like I can in the custom layer, and it would do all the copying in the background. It would look the same as dragging in a custom layer, except the channel numbers would stay where they are. It should update the channels on the custom layer as well, so channel 8 on the custom layer will be replaced with 13. There should be a way to “move” channels between layers too.
I’m surprised that this doesn’t exist already. Is it not common for people to group channels together that have similar things?