Hi all... 

Was wondering if you can change track strip colors so you can coordinate like tracks.  Say, if you have a drum folder with drum tracks in it, is there a way to make the actual strips themselves have a different background color?  I know you can make the track itself have different background and foreground colors but, if I'm working in the mix window, it would be nice to be able to group things by color.  Or some other means of organization. 

The color options in X2 are somewhat limited but go to Edit > Preferences > Customization - Colors in Sonar and poke around. The settings there are detailed on page 93 of the PDF manual.

Cheers.

Beepster

The settings there are detailed on page 93 of the PDF manual.

Cheers.

Hey Beepster! Thanks for the location in the manual!   That is a HUGE manual by the way. 

It is indeed. It is also very repetitive and filled with errors and broken features. I'd suggest picking up X2 Power when it comes out instead of going through the pain I am of reading the actual manual cover to cover. I however am a glutton for punishment. ;-)

Beepster


It is indeed. It is also very repetitive and filled with errors and broken features. I'd suggest picking up X2 Power when it comes out instead of going through the pain I am of reading the actual manual cover to cover. I however am a glutton for punishment. ;-)

Me too. We should get jackets.

I take a size 6XTL.

Beepster


I'd suggest picking up X2 Power when it comes out 

I'm guessing that is a book?

The Rush fan above (heh) echoed something even better than what I could have described. I would LOVE to be able to color-coordinate tracks! Even more so, Take Lanes!!! YES!!

btw, I met Nick Raskulinecz, recently at Blackbird Studio in Nashville. Really nice guy. 

Yup, by Scott Garrigus. He is a member here and runs (or helps run) digifreq.com that has a ton of useful info as well. Also be sure to watch some of the Sonar University vids http://www.cakewalk.com/CakeTV/SONARU.aspx and the Sonar webinars http://www.cakewalk.com/CakeTV/Live.aspx

  If you own X2 you should also have a free month pass to Groove3.com in your Cakewalk store account which has a ton more videos. If you haven't already redeemed that pass do so quickly because it expires at the end of this month. Cheers. 

Beepster, did you bother to list any of the errata in the manual along the way? I started to, but after the first couple of chapters I'd already made a huge list and figured why should I waste my time with this? It was going to take me 2 years to read the whole thing at that rate. And then I thought, am I really doing myself any good reading a manual full of mistakes and inaccuracies? At that point, I decided videos were the way to go. Kudos for actually reading the thing, you have a more dedicated mind than me for picking the good stuff out of that mess!

There is a member here named Panup that put a lot of time in to a utility he wrote that allows you to customize how Sonar looks way beyond what Sonar itself alone will allow.

You can download his mods here ...

LINK