Organizing your midi and audio tracks in Sonar X1. How are you doing it?

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2012/04/04 22:15:01 (permalink)

Organizing your midi and audio tracks in Sonar X1. How are you doing it?

  I realized we cannot move our tracks in the console view. When using Home studio I would just move them around but now its not working so I am curious how others are organizing their tracks. I am getting lost in anything more 5-6 tracks.


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    chuckebaby
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    Re:Organizing your midi and audio tracks in Sonar X1. How are you doing it? 2012/04/04 23:07:11 (permalink)
    you can move them in the track view easly.
    also read up on grouping tracks,you can group all your drum tracks so when you collapse your one track folder it hides these drum tracks,get used to wroking more in the t.v. for moving tracks around,i mean how often do you need to move tracks?.id like to think not so much where it would create havok switching a few times..try color coding your tracks as well,this is something i learned back in pro audio 9.i would color code groups so when i moved a group slider it would raise the volume of that whole color group and not just that single tracks volume.

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    Re:Organizing your midi and audio tracks in Sonar X1. How are you doing it? 2012/04/04 23:11:23 (permalink)
    Create folders, put common type files in folders. Color code is good as chuckebaby points out. Track icons can also help.

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    Re:Organizing your midi and audio tracks in Sonar X1. How are you doing it? 2012/04/04 23:24:54 (permalink)
    If you're talking about dragging tracks in the console view to change their order, you just hold down ctrl+alt and drag. I think that was added in one of the X1 updates.

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    Re:Organizing your midi and audio tracks in Sonar X1. How are you doing it? 2012/04/04 23:41:04 (permalink)
    Thanks StepD that is exactly what I was talking about. In the track view I am fine its when mixing and keeping up with what strip is a audio channel and what one is midi and what is an instrument track in that view where I get lost. I am fine with how the track view is arranged.


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    Re:Organizing your midi and audio tracks in Sonar X1. How are you doing it? 2012/04/05 01:53:38 (permalink)
    Actually you don't need the ctrl when moving tracks in Console view. Alt and drag is enough.

    A great way to distinguish between track types is to have different track name colors. I've got different colors for midi, audio and instrument tracks as well as for track folders and busses. You can customize this in the Preference menu.

    I also use the Track manager a lot to get rid of what I don't need in either Track View or Console View. For instance, when I use Superior Drummer in a project, I will have only 1 midi track present in TV and all audio outputs will be in the CV.
    I actually never have midi tracks in the CV. Instrument- and audio tracks is all I need there.

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    Re:Organizing your midi and audio tracks in Sonar X1. How are you doing it? 2012/04/05 03:07:19 (permalink)
    In Console View I hide all midi  tracks, as for my workflow, they are totally unnecessary.
    in Track view, I have one folder for Midi, then all audio tracks are grouped into logical folders - Drums, Guitars, Horns, Vocals etc

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    Re:Organizing your midi and audio tracks in Sonar X1. How are you doing it? 2012/04/05 04:42:35 (permalink)
    "In Console View I hide all midi tracks, as for my workflow, they are totally unnecessary. " + 1 i must admit, i love my track folders, nothing worse than being cluttered with loads of audi/midi tracks when you have 10/15 reason devices hooked up, sesion drummer as well
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    Re:Organizing your midi and audio tracks in Sonar X1. How are you doing it? 2012/04/05 06:03:26 (permalink)
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     in Track view, I have one folder for Midi, then all audio tracks are grouped into logical folders - Drums, Guitars, Horns, Vocals etc
    +1 on this. Keeps it very clean. Really nice when you end up with say 10 guitar tracks and you can minimize the folder when not working with guitars, same with the drum kit being broken down into individual tracks. I like to use busses with the track folders to make it easier when adjusting say the entire drum kit volume with 1 slider.



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    Re:Organizing your midi and audio tracks in Sonar X1. How are you doing it? 2012/04/05 06:07:01 (permalink)
    I use different colours for track names.

    I also (of course) have a couple of screensets. One has only audio tracks visible, the other MIDI only so any editing specific to track type is easy to do.
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    Re:Organizing your midi and audio tracks in Sonar X1. How are you doing it? 2012/04/05 07:25:46 (permalink)

    Drums, Bass, Vocals, Guitars, Keys, Horns


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