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  • [SOLVED - sort of] why is header icon red?
2015/03/28 12:10:43
GregGraves
Just to the right of the Track number in Track View, there is a little wav icon for an audio track or a little keyboard icon for a midi track.  Why is that icon red on Track One which is an audio track?  There is no overload/clipping on that track I can find.  The meter gets to -2 peak in console view, but not higher.  Double clicking the header icon does not remove the red.
2015/03/28 12:37:59
John
Are you talking about the WAI indicator? 
2015/03/28 17:16:43
GregGraves
The little teeny wav icon located immediately to the right of the track number. 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5NGFo_mTbPOYlZQSGFpZ1lzc2M/view
 
2015/03/28 17:51:47
John
Ok I have not seen that as red before or I never noticed it being red before.  I wish your pic was a little higher res though. 
2015/03/28 23:10:19
robert_e_bone
I can't even see this, on either your picture or when I look on my screen - I have a lot of eyesight trouble seeing little things, even up close.
 
Can you please provide a larger crop of that particular area of the screen?
 
Bob Bone
 
2015/03/29 07:21:53
icontakt
Somebody must have changed the icon while you were away from the daw. Drag the bottom of the track strip down to reveal the larger icon, right-click on it and select Reset Track Icon.
2015/03/29 07:42:03
GregGraves
Nope.  That just "resets" the microphone icon to the default audio wave icon.  The little red guy persists.
2015/03/29 07:52:27
icontakt
Oh....ok, obviously I wasn't aware of something...

So, how about enabling Views (above Control Bar) > Icons > Track View > Show Custom In Header and then resetting the icon? Does it work?
2015/03/29 08:10:17
GregGraves
That is the "thing" about computers.  If you click enough stuff something will happen, maybe good, maybe bad.
 
I clicked Show Custom in Header and the red wave was replaced by the microphone.  When I reset it the red thing came back, then I just started my usual random clicking temper tantrum, and poof, it went away.  I searched through all the icons, and none of them appear to be that red wave thing.   In any case, it is gone.  Thanks.
 
I was worried that it actually meant something, that something in the effects chain or somewhere else was overloading.  That did not appear to be the case.
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