Simon.

some added ideas for your consideration.

1..now that bb has the nice new tracks view i suggest there is a major market oppurtunity imho.
given the gui is up for redesign anyway...and of course i dont know ramifications at the coding level but lets consider (assuming the main gui is tracks view TV) that things be designed so that the user can do a ton of work in tv rather than flitting around tween different views and feature dialogs
One reason i like RB is i can do a ton of song work in RB tracks view
without haveing to leave the view.
another app i use...the same...i can do lots of work in its track view without flitting all over the place.
in summary mate...and this is something we tried to do in industry..
how can a screen (in this case TV) be designed to be a users main
work productivity center ?? so the user saves time and is super
productive ?? in conclusion of course if one agrees then of course TV
should be the main screen with a great GUI.
thus when the user loads up bb tracks view is the first thing seen.

2..given the above that TV is the center of the bb user universe..
i suggest a few added nice features to make the user productive
so the user doesnt have to leave the main TV screen...
..a chord track.
..a tempo track
..a markers track
..a lyrics track.
..maybe also a control track ?? where users can enter shots/holds/rests
etc and the sorta features that F5 does ?

the above hidden or shown at users behest and of course the user
can update the foregoing. the idea being to reduce the number of
dialogs and screens a user has to navigate.

3..also Simon i would love to be able to do all audio/midi editing
in TV rather than haveing invoke various other user views.
this would be done via menu akin to RB currently.
eg want to delete a section ? right clik over selection and select
delete or lets say copy a section...same idea right clik for the edit
menu after hiliting.

in summary the idea being to help users like myself work 'fast'
when the song ideas are coming very fast to us rather than being diverted
by various screens and dialogs and thus possibly impedeing creative flow.

its a pity i cant show via a pic what i see in my mind.
frankly its frustrateing..but not only am i lousy at graphics but obviously
on these forums are users with excellent graphic skills.
and i would be foolish to even try.


i hope i make some sense Simon re the above.
ie TV is not only gui central but song creation central and thus various
other screens/dialogs might not be needed with the right design
approach.

happiness.

om

my songs....mixed for good earbuds...(fyi..my vocs on all songs..)
https://soundcloud.com/alfsongs
(90 songs created useing bb/rb)
(lots of tips of mine in pg tips forum.)