Cakewalk - How About Yellow Sticky Notes In Track View?

Track Properties notes field combined with Markers? It would work for now anyway.

Track Properties note.

HOw about wherever the now time is in the selected track, if you choose option of POSTIE, it opens up the Track Properties note and auto dumps a reference entry, so the user can type info next to it.

There then could be an option in Sonar to show all posties and the user could hover mose over postie to read reference for track.

OK ALTERNATIVE

A view similat to Event VIEW (or a filterable view in the Event VIew, where a postie is recorded as an event and the user types in a box to the right)


USER ALternatives:

1) Get a dictaphone.....record important settings at the end or during a session verbally...quick.

2) Record important settings to a vocal track in Sonar...listen to on opening project first, then mute.

3) Write settings in a notepad or in Excel for each project.
Use an indexing system, if using samples, refer to the sample or loop name location and what you did with it in the mix (I guess this is somewhat covered by track folders though)

If you create a list, you can filter in Excel for Drum, Settings etc...
Another thing to do is go through all sounds and list their frequency ranges most likely to be used....SO when looking for a sound that doesn't clash with an existing sounds frequency range to heavily, you can filter the list and booyakkka, a whole bunch of options to try !

ps CAKEWALK there is some serious automated potential using the Frequency analizer in Sonar to create this data base for the user. Even if the patch, sound file simlply shows up in the open file interface as red for probably not that great, to black for great.

Can you see this is the begining of the make my mix not suck plugin that people crave

ORIGINAL: agincourtdb

There is a plugin that does exactly this but I don't use it so I don't know the name or have a link. It seems to me that one can execute the instructions in the examples you gave as fast one could make the notes anyway so I don't really see the point. Now, marking down the date of a track and mic used, stuff like that, I can understand. I'll try to remember the name of that plugin.

http://www.analogx.com/CONTENTS/download/audio/dxpad.htm

I would like per-clip notes, and the ability for rich-text notes as well (i.e. bold, italics etc). I think a little information (i) icon would be fine on each track or clip that had a note attached. You could click the icon to edit, or even hover over it for it to appear in a tooltip (now that would be cool).

I think the last three understand my comments. I too use the stuff in the folder to make notes, but they are not very time specific.

For me, this is my main passtime, but it is not my job. I like the idea of being able to get back to where I left off by checking notes within my project, not re-reading my hideous handrwiting to see what my thoughts were when I last worked on this.

The excel note, with a little flag that is mostly unobtrusive until you click on it is exactly my vision.

Surely for those of us who mostly record alone or with a very few others could use this. Ditto for mix down - could use notes for multiple mixes. It just seems to me that this would be a major workflow improvement for me. I am sure others would see the benefit as well.

Again, while it has been a very long time since I wrote code, it seems that this is a relatively small add-on. It would do nothing more than tack very small messages onto clips - wherever on the clip you decided to place it.

I need to check the analogx thing again. Back on version 4 I tried to use it but had some problem that I have subsequently forgotten.

Cakewalk - you guys are pretty good at listening to users. Is this something you can do?

Thanks again Cake and fellow users.

ORIGINAL: JoseC.

Yes, that is something I often miss. While they are at it, they could also add some place where it could be possible to paste Windows shortcuts to files somewhere within a project (the Project Info window would be fine). I often miss being able to reference text files, other songs, or whatever files I have anywhere else in my hard drives.

Actually I would like to see an expansion of the idea of the audio folder to include all types of files. My main idea is for your MIDI clips and plugin settings to be stored in there as separate files, making it insanely easy to retrieve them from old backed up versions of your project. But also it could be expanded to include text files with notes about tracks, clips, scanned sheet music, documents of lyrics etc.

I use the old fashioned old school notebook and writing implement

ORIGINAL: stratcat33511

I use the old fashioned old school notebook and writing implement

You also tune your guitars with a pitchfork?

I'll give this app a try again. Last time I used it (seems like it was several years ago - 2 maybe) something didn't sit right.

I still think Cake could put this in easier than doing something such as changing color schemes.

How do you back it up? ;-)

photocopy?

scan?

There's an article in the curent Em or EQ, I forget which, where the author suggests using the Lyrics View for adding notes into his tracks. They're time specific and easily tweakable that way. I thought that was a pretty creative idea.

ORIGINAL: kilgoretrout



Please Mr Cakewalk give us a sign!

Dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum

ORIGINAL: spinlock_1977

ORIGINAL: stratcat33511

I use the old fashioned old school notebook and writing implement

How do you back it up? ;-)

I dont - there are stacks of notebooks in the studio !
I use the DXnotepad plugin sometimes
I havent tried the lyrics view thing yet, but that sounds like a good idea

Cake - how about chiming in here please?

Thanks

ORIGINAL: kilgoretrout

I have posted this before and gotten several positive responses.

How about a yellow sticky note feature in the track view?

I love it - great idea!!

I want it now.

Q.