A way to zoom audio waveforms vertically in the arrange view without changing the track height or the clip gain (would also be useful in the waveform editor!)
What problem(s) would this feature resolve?
It’s currently difficult to work with audio regions which are low in level or haave long fading out elements such as reverb or cymbal tails. Often quiet elements are hard to spot and edit accurately.
Another use is to quickly check your noise floor without risking blowing your speakers when you press play again
How does this feature fit in Bitwig as a product?
Additional buttons in the arrange panel / clip panel / waveform editor and extra assignable keyboard shortcuts
Is there already an alternative way to achieve this on Bitwig?
Not really - you can get some of the way in the arrange by enlarging a track view and also temporarily adding gain to an audio clip but that enalrging the track only gets you so far and it’s very inconvenient to mess with clip gain for this which is limited to +18db - especially if the gain needs to be anything other than 0db when resetting it.
Could it be implemented using Bitwig components or APIs, without Bitwig team’s support?
Not sure
Could it be provided by a VST or something else reasonably integrated with Bitwig?
I don’t think so
Are there other products that offer this feature?
I have dabbled in Presonus studio one which handles this quite well, and some hardware samplers have this feature (eg. elektron octatrack) which is primarily to compensate for low resolution displays but I find this function to be useful in so many situations