Anderton
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Track Icon Trick
Maybe I'm the only person who didn't know this, but if you navigate to any PNG or BMP picture in the browser and drag it anywhere into a track, it will become the track icon.
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Re: Track Icon Trick
2016/06/30 21:38:55
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Once again I'm amazed at what SONAR can do. Thanks for this tip!!
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Re: Track Icon Trick
2016/06/30 22:06:35
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I did not know that. Awesome.
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Re: Track Icon Trick
2016/06/30 22:36:27
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Re: Track Icon Trick
2016/06/30 23:58:16
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Should have made this Friday's Tip of the Week 
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Re: Track Icon Trick
2016/07/01 00:00:55
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Re: Track Icon Trick
2016/07/01 02:53:23
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Thanks! When I want a custom icon I spend ages making it with PhotoPlus.
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Re: Track Icon Trick
2016/07/01 03:46:27
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cool. Think I tried to do this once in, X3 maybe? so a new thing..
thanx
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Re: Track Icon Trick
2016/07/01 04:30:53
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Re: Track Icon Trick
2016/07/01 07:28:21
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On a side note, any suggestions on how to find MORE track icon choices?
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Re: Track Icon Trick
2016/07/01 07:41:13
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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.
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Re: Track Icon Trick
2016/07/01 08:40:35
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Re: Track Icon Trick
2016/07/01 09:32:17
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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.
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Re: Track Icon Trick
2016/07/01 09:33:12
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jimkleban
On a side note, any suggestions on how to find MORE track icon choices?
Not really, but when I create new track icons, I pass them along to Cakewalk. Many of these have been added since Platinum was introduced. Guess I need to do more...
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Re: Track Icon Trick
2016/07/01 09:39:32
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Re: Track Icon Trick
2016/07/01 09:40:47
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That's a good one!
Though we may clamor for "revolutionary" features, it's often the 1001 small improvement that make day-to-day DAW use more productive.
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Re: Track Icon Trick
2016/07/01 10:42:26
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Good tip! I made a few basic .png icons quickly in Paint. Just solid color backgrounds with Bold type, ie: blue backrounds are all drums, yellow are guitars etc and put them in the template folder. Also some templates for the Aux busses. It adds another quick visual clue especially when it console view.
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Re: Track Icon Trick
2016/07/01 10:44:12
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I know I could just try it, but do images get autoscaled, or do they need to be sized before drag/drop?
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Re: Track Icon Trick
2016/07/01 12:52:57
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Love it! JPEG would be nice....
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Re: Track Icon Trick
2016/07/01 13:02:02
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Anderton
Should have made this Friday's Tip of the Week
Another great tip, Craig! Maybe this could be a "July 4 weekend bonus tip" - It's definitely worthy of being "stickied"!!
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Re: Track Icon Trick
2016/07/01 13:04:52
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BobF
I know I could just try it, but do images get autoscaled, or do they need to be sized before drag/drop?
Just drag and drop. Of course, if you're trying to squeeze some big rectangular shape into the track icon, it's going to look fairly abstract
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Re: Track Icon Trick
2016/07/01 13:16:51
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Is there a way to show the icons in the browser as images and not text?
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Re: Track Icon Trick
2016/07/01 13:19:12
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BobF
I know I could just try it, but do images get autoscaled, or do they need to be sized before drag/drop?
Just drag and drop. Of course, if you're trying to squeeze some big rectangular shape into the track icon, it's going to look fairly abstract
That's a great way to make the pic match the sound ... thanks craig
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Re: Track Icon Trick
2016/07/01 14:52:53
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John
Is there a way to show the icons in the browser as images and not text?
No. But if you open the Track Icon folder in the desktop so you can see the images, you can still do the drag and drop into track thang.
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Re: Track Icon Trick
2016/07/01 14:53:27
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Just wanted to explain why I was looking for additional TRACK ICONS. Yes, so when I use a LES Paul Deluxe and a LES PAUL Custom on the same song.... it would be nice to find the track in console view by guitar picture (they are already grouped together) or if one of the PAULs is GOLD and the other WINE RED.... bingo, aid to an old blind man.
Also, I have multi vocal tracks, if I like to know which MIC i used in case corrections are needed later... let's say I used a NEUMANN U-87 on one vocal track and a TLM 102 on another track..... not only can I find the vocal tracks but now, the console view would become a detailed track sheet (which eventually would be nice to print out or send to a file for quick archival later (who knows for what). Somebody asks you what mic did you use on the vocals on the main vocal.... do you remember that 3 or 4 years later? Anyway, would be nice to just open up the TRACK SHEET PDF and you could see the icon of a U-87, no? If somebody asks what COMP did you use (that kind of detail) then it would be OPEN the song up and see all the signal chains.
Just some thoughts,
Jim
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Re: Track Icon Trick
2016/07/01 15:31:42
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John
Is there a way to show the icons in the browser as images and not text?
No. But if you open the Track Icon folder in the desktop so you can see the images, you can still do the drag and drop into track thang.
I would really love if the Browser did show images. The drag and drop is a handy thing to have too. Good tip indeed.
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Re: Track Icon Trick
2016/07/01 15:31:43
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☄ Helpfulby Ripwolf 2016/07/02 10:22:07
jimkleban
On a side note, any suggestions on how to find MORE track icon choices?
What I do is try to find my exact instruments on a music store site, like Musician's Friend or Sweetwater. Save the picture, then use it as my track icon to show the actual instrument used.
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Re: Track Icon Trick
2016/07/02 09:04:07
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John
Is there a way to show the icons in the browser as images and not text?
This should be addressed.... no point having a built in browser if I have to locate the icons folder to view the actual images!
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Re: Track Icon Trick
2016/07/02 09:07:37
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How do you change the small track icons that display audio/synth?
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Re: Track Icon Trick
2016/07/02 09:27:29
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If you mean the little icon to the right of the track number, those can be changed with something like Duckbar or any resource extractor. They're in the PNG section of TTSRES in earlier versions of Sonar, TungstenTheme in Tungsten (IIRC), and TTSImage for Mercury. I'm not at my computer, so the filenames for the Tungsten and Mercury versions may not be exactly correct. The icons are in the lower numbered resources near the top.
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