#CAKEWALK SONAR X1 LE REVIEW TV#
#CAKEWALK SONAR X1 LE REVIEW WINDOWS#

But it would serve me and I believe others well if CW would do this. One area I was hoping the CV would be improved in is automatic resizing and shifting of tracks, Buses and Mains so that blank space is avoided. The Console View is used by me on the other monitor and have done this for a long time in just about all previous Sonars. To me a lane is another track taking up valuable screen space that shows very little data for the space it takes up. I think CW figured out a very workable solution for the clutter of multiple envelopes on the same track with the filter. I do like the one track approach and have said so. I do like what CW did with automation and solving the on one track versus lanes idea.

This will take time to be automatic for most of us but it is doable.

Or you are working from the wrong menu or you have the wrong tool. It takes a little getting ones head around the notions that a track is not always a track it you have it filtered a certain way. Before I could click on any part of a track header and then with shift select the last track. I don’t like the fact one has to click a number label of tracks in order to select more then one with the mouse or with shift. Having the Inspectors off screen on another monitor gives all the information one needs. With a control surface the spare display is great. With the Control bar gone and the track header width small maximum room is left for the display of tracks.

#CAKEWALK SONAR X1 LE REVIEW TV#

The TV has as much if not more flexibility as Sonars past in how it can display tracks. I can pretty much have about the same number of tracks displayed as in 8.5.3. The Track View for me is a welcome change. With that I also found that it will work even when the TV or CV is not the focus. Y is the key bind I use for resetting the clipping indicator. One thing it did that surprised me was it also loaded my key bindings. I really had little to do after it was done with the install. It migrated all my 8.5.3 settings over and did a great job in doing so. Installation and setup went as smooth as it always has. So for now it will stay on the primary docked at the top. I did try to move the Control Bar onto my second monitor and found it was a very bad fit. I see it as working as well if not better then previous versions in this area. X1 does a really good job of exploiting dual monitors. CW needs to do a lot more in our ability to customize the colors used for a lot more objects and things that X1 has. Also color changes seem not to be adopted quickly for various objects even when a color change is supported. Still on this subject who was the person at CW that thought dark gray on dark gray for labels was a good idea? Fortunately I was able to change some of the labels by changing a color for text but not all. Now that I have it on my desk top its not as bad as I thought but not as good as it could look if one had some control over color choices.

#CAKEWALK SONAR X1 LE REVIEW WINDOWS#

The light gray for the windows framing is ugly. My first impression of X1 upon looking at it on the web was of a very crowded and squished work area.

My review of Sonar X1 Producer version 1a.

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