Thanks Guys...
this stuff helps with some of it... Working with auto-zoom on does ease the repetitions of sizing to access the lanes... and brundelfly's shortcut sounds as tho it might be an even better route for me...
My discomfort with auto zoom is that I can't min/max any tracks while it's on.... But we'll see if I can adjust a bit...
Craig... I understand what you're saying about learning the new X way of doing things, but there's the rub... When I'm working, sometimes these methods work and othertimes they don't. In pre-X versions we could access things in many ways and now we're more "coerced" into one MO... I am not getting my work done faster... and I work with Sonar everyday and have been using X since it was released. I have a number of songs done completely in X and they took me much more work and frustration... the current zoom for lanes will never be comfortable for me as I can't see the info well when they are so limited in height. I had trouble with that often using layers when I had many layers as I couldn't make a single layer larger, but the bulk of work was much easier to see...
As to how many takes? If it's a song that I know and have rehearsed, I would agree that a few takes are enough so that I stay fresh... But when I'm in writing mode I typically need to run more takes as I experiment and running back and editing while in this mode takes my mind to the wrong place...
FBB.... thanks for the extra tips regarding setting the auto-zoom heights. I'll play with that too
Kev... Thanks.... tho I'd love a second monitor (I am worse than flat broke) it wouldn't help the screen real estate side by side. I would need one above the other extending the vertical screen space.... I'd love to have 4 monitors set up 2 side-by-side and 2 side by side above! ;-)
Craig... I look forward to your video on lanes. I enjoyed your recent one on the console emulator as well as much of your previous work. You and all these people helping here (and many others in the Sonar Forum as well as The Bakers themselves!) are one of the unspoken items that makes me continue to learn and grow even if I'm not always happy about it! ;-)
Keni