Console View -> Strips -> Instrument

[Ferenc Hegedus]

Hello!

 

There are Audio, MIDI and Instrument tracks in the Track View. In the Console View when i open up the Strips dialog and tick only Audio, shows only Audio strips, choosing only MIDI shows only MIDI strips but if i tick only Instrument nothing shows up. When i choose Instrument and MIDI, then it shows both the Instrument and MIDI strips but I don't want to see the MIDI Strips in Console View.  Is this normal?

 (I know as a workaround I can deselect the unwanted MIDI strips (or any) in the Track Manager but it's not exactly the same)

 

 

Edited May 27, 2021 by Ferenc Hegedus

[User 905133]

Suppose you split the instrument track into midi and audio (and just choose to show audio strips in the Console)?  Would that work around meet your needs? 

Edited May 28, 2021 by User 905133
clarification added

[Colin Nicholls]

7 hours ago, Ferenc Hegedus said:

if i tick only Instrument nothing shows up.   Is this normal?

Huh. Easy to reproduce. That's got to be a bug. There's no way that makes sense. Submit it as a bug!

[Ferenc Hegedus]

6 hours ago, User 905133 said:

Suppose you split the instrument track into midi and audio (and just choose to show audio strips in the Console)?  Would that work around meet your needs? 

Thanks for the advice, that works i just don't want to split them, I want to keep it simple in the Track View as much as possible (no separate MIDI track when possible)

[Ferenc Hegedus]

5 hours ago, Colin Nicholls said:

Huh. Easy to reproduce. That's got to be a bug. There's no way that makes sense. Submit it as a bug!

Thanks, I'll submit as a bug.

I just checked on the latest Sonar Platinum, it behaves the same way.

I tried the following:  I made a new empty project, add 1 Instrument track. I split the Instrument track to MIDI and Audio. In Console View > Strips I tick only Audio and the Audio track shows up as it should but if i tick only MIDI the MIDI won't show up unless i tick Instrument as well.

 

 

 

[Bristol_Jonesey]

Doesn't sound like a bug. I think this is just a limitation of using Instrument tracks rather than split

I always use split and puta ll my Midi tracks into their own folder so that they can be easily hidden in Track View

 

[scook]

Been like this since day 1.

The feature request to treat instrument tracks the same as audio and midi tracks in the console view has been around almost as long.

[Ferenc Hegedus]

Bristol, It's a limitation, that doesn't make any sense to me, but i can live with it 

 

Scook, thanks I didn't know that. Maybe it's  not a bug, it's a feature

 

Until recently i always opened  instruments with split tracks, so i never noticed this "problem". I ticked only Audio in console view and i was good. Now i use the Instrument tracks (to make less busy the track view) and i didn't understand what's happening.

Actually it's not a big deal, i was just scratching my head, why is this happening.

 

[Colin Nicholls]

I don't understand why, if this is "by design", that there is an option on the Console > Strips menu for selecting "Instrument" tracks only, that doesn't work.

It's even documented as working in the manual.

[Ferenc Hegedus]

Exactly. Hopefully they will fix it, so it's gonna work just like the manual says it  here 

Until then, Track Manager is my friend 🎚️