Craig Reeves 17 Posted May 8, 2020 If you look at other DAWs like Logic, Digital Performer, Cubase, Studio One and I'm sure others as well, you're able to zoom out vertically to where the tracks in the arranger view are so tiny that up to 50 tracks can be seen at once. Cakewalk allows you to zoom out horizontally extremely well, but vertically, the tracks can't get super narrow the way they can in other DAWs. This is a feature that I think would greatly benefit for film scoring in Cakewalk because you can see more of the music at once. In film scoring, because there's so many instruments a film composer wants to have access to/uses, there can be hundreds of MIDI tracks they're using. In other DAWs, you can see more of the music at once. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
User 905133 454 Posted May 8, 2020 (edited) From what I understand there are better programs than Cakewalk for large orchestral scores. You might want to try those. Evidently the previous post was about tracks, not scores with staves on them; ergo, comment was unintentionally OT. Edited May 9, 2020 by User 905133 To withdraw a comment that was unintentionally off-topic Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Craig Reeves 17 Posted May 8, 2020 Clearly, the feature I'm talking about wouldn't just be useful in film scoring. I simply gave an example. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Colin Nicholls 353 Posted May 9, 2020 Doesn't the Navigator view kinda satisfy this requirement? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Craig Reeves 17 Posted May 9, 2020 No, because you can't arm tracks and record in that view. Plus you can't zoom in. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Josh Wolfer 95 Posted May 12, 2020 A friend of mine works on film scores and he literally has 250 tracks per project in Logic. Each virtual instrument has a separate track for articulations. And you'd be amazed at how realistic his scores sound. So your feedback about track count is absolutely accurate in orchestral scores. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Peter Hintze 12 Posted May 16, 2020 +1 @Josh Wolfer i remember requesting half size track lanes around 20 years ago let's hope it's implemented in the near future. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mark Morgon-Shaw 217 Posted May 16, 2020 Previous requests for a vector based GUI would allow this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoseC 96 Posted May 20, 2020 On 5/16/2020 at 11:31 PM, Mark Morgon-Shaw said: Previous requests for a vector based GUI would allow this I want to believe that the dev team is working on that. Noel said not long ago that this is no trivial task, though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mark Morgon-Shaw 217 Posted May 21, 2020 On 5/20/2020 at 3:42 PM, JoseC said: I want to believe that the dev team is working on that. Noel said not long ago that this is no trivial task, though. Yes it would be a pretty major overhaul but with the resolution of monitors now available and competing DAWs having this , I think it's a worthwhile investment of Dev time Share this post Link to post Share on other sites