ManuelGuerrero Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 (edited) Where are these cute little icons? I used to navigate fast by clicking over the familiar icons, even without my glasses. Now I have to read the texts until I find what I want. Is there an option to activate them? Edited July 30 by ManuelGuerrero Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canopus Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 2 hours ago, Piing said: Is there an option to activate them? Currently, no. Those cute little icons have been sacrificed on the Altar of Modernity. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wookiee Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 @Piing they are I believe all either BMP or PNG images. As the GUI for Sonar is now been updated to the modern way of GUI generation, vector graphics, those image formats have been done away with. Nothing to do with being sacrificed on any alter, anywhere, using vector graphics enables faster coding, leading to faster development time, easierto add new features. It is also the way forward. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Anderton Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 Because the right brain parses images and colors faster than text, maybe there could be customization that allows changing the text color, so your most-used options would be easier to pick out of a group of options. I colorize tracks in a standardized way for that reason (e.g., drums red, guitars blue, vocals green, etc.), and it really helps for locating specific tracks when you're dealing with a project that has lots of tracks. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wookiee Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 1 hour ago, pwal²³ said: i'll politely disagree here, especially when converting an existing ui from bmp to svg (are they still using the codejock framework? if so then they're dependent on cj updating first, etc etc - actually, whatever happened to user cj? @CJ) i'll politely agree here I don't know what code framework they use now, I was trying to be helpful as to a reason for their disappearance. It is a long time since I wrote code, we used C, C++ or C# or .NET or visual studio did not exist, and none of the fancy tools they use now, it was also under the CP/M OS. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulo Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 1 hour ago, pwal²³ said: whatever happened to user cj? I heard that he bought a soundblaster and realised that he'd spent many years living a lie. Moved to a desert island and build an entire studio using a $200 laptop and a USB mic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulo Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 1 hour ago, pwal²³ said: (altho the info is useful in a different context) It would be except for the fact that anyone who's anyone knows that drums are green.? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xoo Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 1 minute ago, paulo said: It would be except for the fact that anyone who's anyone knows that drums are green.? Wah wah is green - duh! Back on topic, as someone who finds icons incomprehensible (I think it's an ND thing - visual imagery takes too long to process and/or bears no obvious resemblance to the thing it refers to) and distracting, I'm more than happy to see the back of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Anderton Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 3 hours ago, pwal²³ said: politely replying that this doesn't answer the question...(altho the info is useful in a different context) The question had already been answered by Wookiee. Given that the goal is rapid identification of functions, I moved on to suggesting a potentially easier to implement workaround. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoens Posted August 1 Share Posted August 1 Icons were actually removed in CbB a while back when they reformatted the menus. Interesting there's still room for them on the left, tho. 6 hours ago, paulo said: I heard that he bought a soundblaster and realised that he'd spent many years living a lie. Moved to a desert island and build an entire studio using a $200 laptop and a USB mic. That's all I use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol_Jonesey Posted August 1 Share Posted August 1 13 hours ago, paulo said: I heard that he bought a soundblaster and realised that he'd spent many years living a lie. Moved to a desert island and build an entire studio using a $200 laptop and a USB mic. He has a Facebook page that is pretty empty https://www.facebook.com/cj.terrasin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulo Posted August 1 Share Posted August 1 16 hours ago, Xoo said: Wah wah is green - duh! I'm not sure whether to mock your foolishness or praise your bravery for allowing people to see it. Usually in such situations I go with "Ok then". Ok then. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulo Posted August 1 Share Posted August 1 3 hours ago, Bristol_Jonesey said: He has a Facebook page that is pretty empty The only thing wrong with that is having a FB page. ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sock Monkey Posted August 1 Share Posted August 1 My favorite all time CJ quote regarding Sound blaster cards " Take that thing, drive to the tallest building in town and throw it off the roof!" I was tempted to say that about a Behringer UMC 22 the other day. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resonant Serpent Posted August 4 Share Posted August 4 I miss the little things like those icons that give programs character. Sonar 8.5.3 will always be the pinnacle DAW for me. Still love that thing, and it's a shame that I can't use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resonant Serpent Posted August 4 Share Posted August 4 10 hours ago, pwal²³ said: me too, x1 was a disaster... why can't you still use 853? I don't have a computer that'll run it, and it's limited these days. I'm spoiled. Still, it's my favorite interface. I do have an old WinXP SP2 machine that dug out of storage. Need to get a video card for it and thinking of using it as a MIDI only setup for my hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol_Jonesey Posted August 5 Share Posted August 5 23 hours ago, pwal²³ said: me too, x1 was a disaster... why can't you still use 853? X1 was fine after it was patched to X1e 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User 905133 Posted August 5 Share Posted August 5 (edited) 5 hours ago, Bristol_Jonesey said: X1 was fine after it was patched to X1e Thanks for mentioning this. I have X1d (build 535 installed). UPDATE: I just read this thread from the old forum. My X1 is Producer Expanded. Is that X1e even though the About dialog says X1d? (Or maybe I need to find and install X1e?) Edited August 5 by User 905133 Added a question based on some research into X1e Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol_Jonesey Posted August 5 Share Posted August 5 19 minutes ago, User 905133 said: Thanks for mentioning this. I have X1d (build 535 installed). UPDATE: I just read this thread from the old forum. My X1 is Producer Expanded. Is that X1e even though the About dialog says X1d? (Or maybe I need to find and install X1e?) Now you're testing my memory. I don't think the 'e' referred to Expanded - Expanded was a separate path that we could follow The whole numbersing system for different versions got very confusing back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msmcleod Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 On 8/5/2024 at 3:18 PM, Bristol_Jonesey said: Now you're testing my memory. I don't think the 'e' referred to Expanded - Expanded was a separate path that we could follow The whole numbersing system for different versions got very confusing back then. IIRC SONAR X1 Expanded was a version of X1 with an early implementation of the ProChannel. The X1e update was available to all versions, but you may find there is a specific X1e update for SONAR X1 Expanded, just as there was for artist/professional/producer. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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