Does anyone else here NEVER use console view?

What do you use for EQ?

I rarely use Console View, preferring Track View like yourself. Additionally, although I've tried to warm up to the Pro Channel, I've never been able to. I dislike the small GUIs and the inability to move the modules around the screen independently. Call me old fashioned, but I still much prefer VSTs in the FX bin... er, rack.

My song "Summertime"
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I have never ever used the console view.
 
Although it is true that I have a hardware console (VS-700), I didn't use the console view back before I bought the hardware console.
 
Not sure why since I grew up in studios with traditional mixing desks.  I just seem to be OK working in track view.

Use the Console View especially for audio mixing. Use with a second monitor. Somewhat mandatory when a lot of Busses are involved.
Using multiple monitors is great for a DAW like Sonar; at least two. PRV on one screen, Staff View on the other--you can see chords etc. the much better for the situations of folks who need to use notation in collaboration with a musical imps like me, who lives in the PRV.
I started recording digital music on Korg Triton. When I got over to computers I spent 2 years being frustrated in the Event List View.
I think all 'Views' 'Sub-Views' and 'Applets' along with their menus need improvement, constantly.   

benjaminfrog
I rarely use Console View, preferring Track View like yourself. Additionally, although I've tried to warm up to the Pro Channel, I've never been able to. I dislike the small GUIs and the inability to move the modules around the screen independently. Call me old fashioned, but I still much prefer VSTs in the FX bin... er, rack.

Same here!

Use track view and console view about 50/50. I'd be lost without console view.

Leadfoot
I use one monitor for track view, and one for console/multidock view.

+1

sylent

Leadfoot
I use one monitor for track view, and one for console/multidock view.

+1

Same here. Use them both continuously. As I get into mixing, it starts to get more console oriented, though. Sometimes I span the console view across both monitors during mix. I like being able to get an at-a-glance overview of so many mix parameters.

I'd heard that some weren't using console view at all, so I gave it a go. I only have an Alphatrack so no multi fader console type Control Surface. I just couldn't bend my brain around it so am back to using the console/track view about 50/50.

Track/main Sonar view on left (1st) monitor and Multidock/console view on the right (2nd) monitor.

Track view for tracking and editing, then console view for final mix tweaking. I find it particularly useful on larger projects with high track counts.

I use the console view, along with staff, track and event list. It seems a less cluttered way to mix than track view.

John
Sonar was designed from the very beginning to be perfectly useful without the Console View. Thats one reason Sonar has a Buss pane. I use the CV for what it does offer on a second monitor. It gives me an overall view of the levels along with other things.  

Agree with all of that. I think one of the key reasons these new-fangled doohickeys are a great is that they allow lots of different ways of working. There's no "correct" way, and everyone should take a lot of joy in that, I reckon.

I track and edit almost exclusively in Track view. Track view on monitor one, VSTs and effects open on monitor two. I agree with Craig: the 'D' key is quite handy for quickly bouncing over to a docked console view when you need to take stock of everything.
In the mixing phase, I adios track view and use console view on monitor one and the second monitor gets used for VST effects. Though, I find that apart from a FabFilter delay and an instance or two of Kore, I am mixing everything through ProChannel plugs these days.
 
All that considered, my second screen crapped out on me last week so I am going the one monitor route for a bit. I feel like I've lost a limb. I was planning for a three screen setup at the end of 2015, but I'm not sure I can hold out.

Anderton
Then I discovered the magic "D" shortcut so I could go instantly between track view and console view.

When I was getting back into creating "music" again, after a few years away, I was still using S6P. I was desktop based and I had dual monitors so it was a no brainer to have the Console permanently open on my second monitor.
 
It was the same time that X1 was released. Also, I went laptop based and I needed a sound card (Q-C) and X1 LE came with it. Quite quickly I cottoned on to the "D" shortcut and I set up my system so that when toggle to the Console it fills my window.
 
I also use envelopes a lot, so while I am composing I will use Track view pretty much all the time, toggling to Console just to mess with levels, add sends and effects and any PC tweeking. But once it comes to mixing I want a "traditional" vertical arrangement of sliders. The sliders in Track view are simply too small, in my opinion. I know it's possible to use Inspector for that, too, but I still prefer to use Console...