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Knob Context Menu: New Automation Track

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Description

Type: Enhancement

Inv. Component: All dials ('knobs') context-menu

suggested feature: Add option 'Open automation-track'

Advantage: The feature should open a new automation-track, with the selected dials setting as base. At the same time, the new automation-track should be named with a concat of the component the dial belongs to, and the dial-feature. In the img-example that concat would be LEAD 55 HARD LEAD/ C¤EQ/ D/W. This would spare user for copy/paste opps, or the manual-typing, and it is very intuitive to open and assign a dial that way (just as the global-option iow)
The imo biggest benefit would be that this option would eliminate the very annoying situations where it is not easy to drag a dial out in SE or B&BE, because another component is blocking the space. The result is that as you move the 'blocker' the component with the dial disappear to the bottom of the pile, and then has to be dug up again
In the mockup i placed the option in the bottom, it should ofcause not be there..

newdialcontextoption

Schedule: 1.2.1 or later

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing context menu for all knobs and the current global automation-track option. Determine how a selected dial's component and feature names are obtained and how automation tracks are opened. Done means the menu option opens a new track with the dial's setting as its base and assigns the requested concatenated name.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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