• SONAR
  • Idea for Feature Request (p.2)
2014/05/30 11:46:59
...wicked
Pretty cool idea actually. It's like a solo for viewing. Would make navigating way faster for some things.
2014/05/30 17:11:07
jimkleban
Bob,
 
I use more than 1 drum VSTi (all with multiple outs), the audio tracks are in the folders of the VSTi.s, spread out all over the Console View.
 
Example, I use the GEN X cymbal libraries (they are best I have ever heard) which runs under BFD, my kit piece VSTi's vary depending on what kit or style I want to use.
 
Another example is that I love the PREMIER jazz kit from AD (XLN audio) but lreally love the 70s Abbey Road Gretsch kit for that old time vintage rock sound.
 
So you see, when I go and mix the drums, my audio tracks are spread all over the CONSOLE view.  I could re arrange these but I like keeping them in their own folder in case I need to add another separate out audio track, I can see which out is still available.
 
Hope this makes sense and this is only one example on my workflow.  I was really hoping that this function already existed in SONAR and I just wasn't aware of it.

Thanks,
Jim
 
2014/05/30 18:46:53
robert_e_bone
Wow - you are a Lamb Lies Down kind of dude, too?  Kewl.
 
Thanks for explaining.  
 
I usually get the kit together that I want to use, whether that's one instance of Battery 3, or 2, or some combo of 3-4 from who knows what plugin, for replacing particular kit pieces, or for adding things like gongs or what not.
 
Because I do this early on, I just group the main kit into a Drums track folder, then add additional audio and midi drum tracks into that same track folder.
 
All of the replacements and additional percussive pieces are added at the bottom of the track folder, so it isn't hard for me to know what is coming from what.
 
In any case, i DO like the idea - submit it as a Feature Request, if you haven't already.
 
I am a piano/keys player, so Tony Banks and company are near and dear to my heart.  I just whipped through a rendition of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway for 2 of my brothers this past week, at a wedding weekend hang out.  :)
 
Bob Bone
 
2014/05/30 23:43:07
jimkleban
Yup, 
 
The LAMB has been a fun project.  I got to make friends with the original producer, Steve Hackett and Mike Rutherford.  It has been very educational and truly a blast.
 
I only do this stuff as a hobby now... great stuff to escape the trials and tribulations of life, no?  I used to be much more serious when I was younger.
 
I am a guitarist as a discipline but know enough to fake my way thru keyboards thanks to MIDI.
 
Jim
 
 
2014/05/31 09:49:12
robert_e_bone
Very cool.  I got to meet the band at the Roxy, way back in 1980, and had dinner with them prior to a show in front of about 250 people.  The next night, I was invited to watch the show from up on the stage (out of sight on the side) at the Greek Theater in LA.  Mike had his 5-year old daughter along for the ride, and she ran all over the place before the show.  He is a SUPER nice guy.
 
Did you ever deal with Geoff Banks?  (I think that was his name) - He was an equipment manager for either Mike or for the band, I cannot recall exactly which.
 
Bob Bone
 
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