Modifying Track Height in Console View

I am running Producer 8.5 on a laptop. The channel strips are not fully viewable in Console view. Is there a way to change just the vertical sizing of the window to eliminate the vertical scroll bar?

if only one could alter the size of the track name window or the orientation of the text there-in - perhaps then I'd know what each track related to without having to solo it first!!!

rbowser


Twigman - You can't tell what's on a track without soloing it--?  If you choose short, logical names for your tracks, that shouldn't be a problem.  "Bass" "Drums" "Keys" etc--all of those words fit easily in the space you're given, even with the narrow strip view. 

Randy
I tend to use long track names - I like to reference not only the instrument 'bass/drums guitar etc' but also something about that line and find that when I use several eg guitar lines example Guitar1 - clean Verse and Guitar1 - dirty Middle Eight and Guitar2 - Clean Chorus and Guitar2 - dirty Chorus  etc then that starts to overfill the box.
 
 
When I have Reason rewired I like to reference, in the track name, the fact that I am using a Reason channel and which of the 64 Reason outputs it uses (whether a left or a right channel)as well as where to find in my Reason rack the 'sound' that is being used. So I might have a track called Violins - Legato - Reason7L - NNXT4 - That refernces in one place everything I need to know about the track. The Input box, especially when rewired to reason isn't even long enough in console view the tell me which Reason channel a signal is coming in from - I find myself switching back to Track View all the time.
 
It would be much more useable in console view if longer track names could be used.

Thanks!

Your insights come from experience. I did not think of reducing the number of viewable items.

Ardjunc 

I kind of like the icons.  Their presence or absence is not material to the quality of my console display.

I really just wish I could "set" the size of the tracks, either by pixels or by dragging track 1's "handles".  I want to adjust widths, yes.  But also height and width of the meters.

I want my meters to be monstrously huge and disco-bright so that I can see them from my drum kit in the living room, about 20-25 feet away.  I don't care if they're so bright they scare the birds away from my swimming pool.

Everything in the Console view is too small, but my monitor is a 27" screen running in native 1920X1080 resolution!  Yes, it's a nice big monitor, but I still feel like I'm performing neurosurgery with microscopic tools whenever I have to press buttons or drag sliders in the console view.  And it's not much better in project view, either!  << those aren't my glasses, they are portable electron microsocopes! 

Press H then A to go back

Why all the huge resolutions?  They make most everything look teeny.  I cant stand those resolutions.  I think once you can't read text in a program--you've probably gone a wee bit too large!

Randy B.

rbowser


Why all the huge resolutions?  They make most everything look teeny.  I cant stand those resolutions.  I think once you can't read text in a program--you've probably gone a wee bit too large!

Randy B.

Randy, I shall try other resolutions, but to answer your question "why all the huge resolutions?":  
 
That is the native resolution of my flat panel display, because that is how they make them today.  I'm sure you are aware that each flat panel has its own "native" resolution.  That's all I'm doing; using it at the specs at which it was manufactured. 
 
Anything else is fuzzy and gives some people eyestrain or headaches.  Like I said, I will try others resolutions, but I'm not enthusiastic about having fuzzy on my screen.
 
To reiterate my position:  Hardware issues aside, display sizes of onscreen objects can be controlled in SOFTWARE.  Cakewalk already does it in the project view where you can zoom in or zoom out of your track contents.  As another example, Office 2007 and Office 2010 feature this in some of their applications such as Word.
 
This should be the next step for companies such as Cakewalk, who write software that is often used by people with vision challenges.  That includes the huge number of musicians in their 30's, to their 80's.
 
We already have a lot of bells and whistles that we don't use.  Why not try to make most screen objects zoomable or resizable?

Positively Charged

rbowser


Why all the huge resolutions?  They make most everything look teeny.  I cant stand those resolutions.  I think once you can't read text in a program--you've probably gone a wee bit too large!

Randy B.

Randy, I shall try other resolutions, but to answer your question "why all the huge resolutions?":  
 
That is the native resolution of my flat panel display, because that is how they make them today.  I'm sure you are aware that each flat panel has its own "native" resolution.  That's all I'm doing; using it at the specs at which it was manufactured. 
 
Anything else is fuzzy and gives some people eyestrain or headaches.  Like I said, I will try others resolutions, but I'm not enthusiastic about having fuzzy on my screen.
 
To reiterate my position:  Hardware issues aside, display sizes of onscreen objects can be controlled in SOFTWARE.  Cakewalk already does it in the project view where you can zoom in or zoom out of your track contents.  As another example, Office 2007 and Office 2010 feature this in some of their applications such as Word.
 
This should be the next step for companies such as Cakewalk, who write software that is often used by people with vision challenges.  That includes the huge number of musicians in their 30's, to their 80's.
 
We already have a lot of bells and whistles that we don't use.  Why not try to make most screen objects zoomable or resizable?

Thanks for the patient explanation, Positively Charged - I'm really not ought all that techno-savvy.  When screen resolution was brought up, I was thinking only of the screen resolution as controlled in the computer software itself, not by the resolution possible on the monitor itself.  Now I understand what you're saying.

These kind of resolutions really are huge - and I just know that when I see friends' screen displays, I can't stand how tiny and zoomed out things look.  Using zoom controls in and out while working in software isn't a very appealing solution. 

As your post explains, we're in a time of major transition in regards to resolutions and how software is displayed.

Randy B.