A couple feature requests for the new update/version please?
When adding a new audio track, are you able to add the colour pallette please? It would be great if we could set the colour of the new track as we created it. Also, can you add the option to turn off track numbering when adding multiple tracks please? It’s frustrating having the option to name the new track, but then having to rename it once added because there is already a track with the same name in the project. Cubase adds numbers after the name you give the new track. I’m sure a lot of users don’t mind this, but it’s unnecessary for me and gets in the way of my workflow. So having the option in preferences to turn that off would be a big help if it isn’t needed. Thanks!
Also, I’m not sure if you’re aware of this but when Q-Link is enabled in the mix console, changing the value of the send levels on selected tracks doesn’t work, it only changes the track you change. The rest stay as they are.
When you create an audio track, or any track for that matter, and looking for a particular color, are your own preferences consistent? In other words, when you create an audio track do you always prefer green? Midi track always yellow. Instrument track…etc?
Or do you randomly select colors when creating any type of track?
I’m not the OP, but I kind of like the idea of allowing the color choice at the time of track creation.
With respect to your question on preferences for this, I don’t distinguish between different types of tracks (e.g. audio, MIDI, instrument, etc.). Rather, my track colors relate to instrument groupings. For example, I use red for drums, blue for bass, green for electric guitars, gold for acoustic guitars, violet for lead vocals, etc. So, if I’m adding, say a virtual electric guitar track, as soon as I’ve created the instrument track, I’ll change the color to green. That, alongside my typical ordering of tracks, helps me see at a glance where things are in my project view. If I have FX tracks and group (e.g. submix) tracks associated with the electric guitars, they’ll also be green (though sometimes I use different shades of green to help me distinguish the instrument and submix tracks from the FX tracks).
Right. What I was questioning is whether or not it’s worth the initial time investment to create all this in the PLE and then you are set for life…unless down the road you want to change or add something which once it’s set up, is very easy.
For example some users will equate the word “piano” with the color blue using the PLE.
I prefer to use an added 3-letter extension behind the track name. For example any track name with a bass guitar is “fender.bas” or a synthesizer is " arp quadra.syn" Then in your track list, go to your PLE, use the KC for whatever extension, and all those in your track list become the same color. I probably use 30 different 3-letter extensions, and they are especially easy if you use a controller that handles KCs, such as Metagrid.
Sometimes, if something looks off in the track list I have to re-name the extension, then press the key command, but once you have a customized system set up that works for you,it’s very easy without ever going to the color pallet.
Ah, I see. Probably not worth it in my case, but it probably depends on someone’s workflow.
Yeah, this is one reason it wouldn’t be likely to be worth it for me. I’m adding the colors at the time of adding the tracks (or rather immediately afterward), before there is any data in the track other than what virtual instrument and the name of the track itself), and I’m only setting up each track as I decide what is needed next in an arrangement. It might be more useful for someone doing this at mix time, where they are coloring a bunch of tracks (and possibly reorganizing track orders if they weren’t organized from the start) at that point.
For my case it’s really not a huge inconvenience to do one extra alt-click on the track name after having added the track then pick the color. However, if it were in the track creation box, then there would at least be a minor savings in not having to navigate the mouse to another location to do that alt-click. (Or, in the case of adding a bunch of tracks at a time, such as for background vocals, selecting all those tracks, then using the other color selector to recolor them all in one move.)
I colour my tracks according to instrument type - Drums red, bass yellow etc. So I already know what colour to choose when adding new tracks. I think the colour pallette added would really help when creating new tracks.
