version 9 requests?

very soon we will start planning features for version 9....

is there anything you realy want to see in Ai? let me know here and i will try to give a voice to any usefull ideas that you put forwards. if possible a quick "why" as well as a "what" - examples make ideas easier to understand and express

LED Fixture Creator:

Under LED module it wold be interesting to be able to create LED/Pixel banks or fixtures that can then be exported to a CSV or used as a live model.

Currently, using complex LED fixtures like the Clay Paky B-eye, require an intensive c4d or blender session to create a model, and then follow 6 other somewhat convoluted steps to create such a model. i see the possibility of creating 'custom' LED arrays thru the LED fixture module with custom pixel orders and such. for the time being, remember that the B-eyes and many other circular pixel array fixtures are not at all easily mapped with the LED output page since it can only create linear or square pixel arrays but not circular or spiraled, or concentric circles.

multi track audio support?? dont think it was included in the beta of v8?

Multi track audio support is already possible by embedding the multiple tracks of audio into the quicktime AiM file.

We are planning to re design the Audio engine in Ai v9 thought to add lots of new features like per layer / per clip volume control and improved AV sync control etc.

more than 4x channels per clip currently?

Yes.

One of our users recently did a 5.1 project by adding the additional audio tracks in premier pro. We suspect that Sony Vegas and even Quicktime pro would also allow you to do this.

It is important to configure Quicktime correctly in order for this to work...

Run the Quicktime Application. Open Quicktime Preferences, go to Audio Tab, select Windows Audio Session.

ok great - we just id the same thing but used art net to trigger qlab and Ai - good to know