sharke
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Sticky tracks
Y'know....like forums have sticky posts. Think about it  Sometimes I wish that I could use one or more tracks as a "reference" or a guide to the song's arrangement. Maybe the drum or vocal track. I would like it to stay in position at the top of the track pane so that it's always visible even when scrolling up and down the other tracks. So you could, for instance, work on a pad part that's 30 tracks down the list, using the sticky vocal track as a rough guide to where you are in the song. The other use, of course, would be as a dummy "marker" track with which you could fill with different colored clips to indicate song sections. I believe I've heard of people using a dummy MIDI track to do this, well that's all great and everything but what happens when it scrolls out of view? Just throwing it out there. Sometimes I get a little lost in my 50+ tracks and would appreciate anything that Cakewalk can offer us to improve the organizational potential of Sonar. I'm not really into the navigation pane, by the way, it just doesn't float my boat
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Adq
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Re: Sticky tracks
2015/10/13 02:11:32
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KPerry
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Re: Sticky tracks
2015/10/13 02:11:39
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Like it - make it hideable like the video 'track' too.
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Aksuaho
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Re: Sticky tracks
2015/10/13 02:20:17
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have you ever tried marking the needed tracks and hit shift+ctrl+h. This is what I use in the case of something you described.
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Re: Sticky tracks
2015/10/13 02:53:45
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Aksuaho
have you ever tried marking the needed tracks and hit shift+ctrl+h. This is what I use in the case of something you described.
I'm sorry, but it has nothing to do with this request.
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mettelus
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Re: Sticky tracks
2015/10/13 03:03:55
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This would be useful for me when using a guide track. I have rarely hidden tracks, but should look into that as well.
I use split/freeze panes in Excel all the time for this same reason... Hard to work when the header vanishes!
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Kev999
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Re: Sticky tracks
2015/10/13 03:35:39
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sharke
...like forums have sticky posts...
...I would like it to stay in position at the top...so that it's always visible even when scrolling up and down...
I'm thankful that sticky posts don't do this.
post edited by Kev999 - 2015/10/13 03:45:25
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Lord Tim
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Re: Sticky tracks
2015/10/13 11:42:01
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Perhaps the idea could be expanded even further and there could be an upper section like we currently have for busses, also similar in functionality to what MS Word has, eg:  (hopefully that image works and there's no hotlink protection) So what you could do is drag a bar down from the top of the screen, just under where the video track would be if you choose to show it, and it would split the screen into two, and you could put as many tracks in the top pane as you like where they'd stay put, and leave the main pane for scrolling. Expanding on that, why not do away with the buss paradigm altogether now that we're getting track to track routing, and rather than having a buss pane at the bottom, just have another custom pane you can drag up and you could put whatever you like in there, basically replicating the separate buss system now if you choose, or putting tracks in there or whatever. Having three separate custom panes where you could split the view however you want would give you HUGE visual flexibility! But failing this wacky idea, the initial sticky tracks suggestion is also pretty great. I'd definitely find that useful!
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mettelus
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Re: Sticky tracks
2015/10/13 17:45:25
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+1, that would be the feature, and you could put more than one track on either pane (i.e. add a chord/section guide on the top). Freezing the top one just makes it non-scrollable (although rows can be resized), but is not limited to number of rows chosen - advantage is it recovers lost real estate from the split bar itself.
When running on one monitor, that feature would be most helpful when using the multi-dock.
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BobF
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Re: Sticky tracks
2015/10/13 17:55:15
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I don't need the complexity of a split view. Being able to pin tracks at the top is good enough for me!!
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Re: Sticky tracks
2015/10/14 19:26:27
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Great idea, sharke ! I didn't even know I wanted this so much until you thought of it  . Now it seems like one of those features that is so obviously useful that I should have thought of it myself long ago. Thanks for doing my wishing for me :) - Five stars
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