I definitely want to make my own, for some of my guitars. Any set of instructions for that, somewhere?
 
Thanks in advance. Great tip!
Michael

It just dawned on me that it's all probably in Scott Garrigus' Sonar X3 Power book.
 
***** BTW
Scott told me it's on page 76 of Sonar X3 Power

Wow ... as long as its a bit map ...cool .... I made a few of my own icons, guitar pictures, small size, bitmap em ...so easy ...good tip! 

For some reason it will not work for me in the browser nor a Track Icon folder in the desktop.
When I drag it to a track I can see the BMP's name, the cross with 4 arrow head and a + sign to the bottom right.
But when I release the mouse……….. Nothing! No icon update.
 
The world is against me today... Just spilt my coffee as well.

Anderton

Mosvalve
I thought Sonar was able to see JPEG's now for icons. I could have sworn this was a new feature in one of the past updates. I guess not.

SONAR used to do BMP only, but added PNG, not JPEG.

Any idea why JPG wasn't added?  Seems odd to me since it is the most used image format.   

pentimentosound
I definitely want to make my own, for some of my guitars. Any set of instructions for that, somewhere?
 
Thanks in advance. Great tip!
Michael

 
A one-liner in Sonar's help:
 

If you want to create custom track icons, we recommend that you author them as 96x96 pixel 24-bit bitmaps (.BMP).

Brian Walton

Anderton

Mosvalve
I thought Sonar was able to see JPEG's now for icons. I could have sworn this was a new feature in one of the past updates. I guess not.

SONAR used to do BMP only, but added PNG, not JPEG.

Any idea why JPG wasn't added?  Seems odd to me since it is the most used image format.   

I'm going to guess that it's because BMP and PNG support transparent backgrounds and JPG doesn't.

FWIW, if anyone needs a good, free image viewer/editor (for converting JPGs to PNGs, or resizing/cropping to size, for example), give IrfanView a try. I've been using it almost daily for many years.
 
http://www.irfanview.com/
 

Thanks bvideo and TheMaartian.

Well first idea I had when I read this--  take pictures of your band mates and/or  clients, won't they be impressed when the see their smiling mug beside their vocal track. 
And yes take a picture of each and every guitar, bass, dobro and jaw harp in your collection.  
 
If you're to lazy to take your own pictures of instruments just use google images and enter the name and colour of your guitar. You can then open it in Microsoft Office picture Manager or any editor and resize to 96x96 and then "save as" bitmap.