A quick query:
Why does the Mixer only give the option to show Track Names below the Channel Strips? There seems to be no way to show the Channel Strip Name instead, which seems rather odd, since these are....Channel Strips...
- If you double click the "name" area in the Mixer channel strip, you will be adding a "channel strip name." This name will then be the name of the channel strip
[*]If you enter a name on the Arrange track header, this name will be the "track name." If you have already named the "channel strip," this track name will replace it on the Mixer channel strip.
- If you double click the "name" area in the Mixer channel strip, you will be adding a "channel strip name." This name will then be the name of the channel strip
This doesn't seem correct. Editing the name area in the Mixer channel strip changes the track name, rather than the channel strip name! This seems like a but.
I think it depends on the settings in the Configure Track header, but I could be wrong. Honestly, I think the naming scheme is just totally screwed up. I much prefer the Pro Tools way of doing it where there is just a single name, and that's the end of it. You always know that the one name is the one name, there's no room for a second. It's not nearly as flexible, and I know a lot of people do use the multiple name capacity of Logic, but the "one name" of Pro Tools is idiot-proof, and when it comes to naming, I can be quite an idiot.
Orren
I think it depends on the settings in the Configure Track header, but I could be wrong. Honestly, I think the naming scheme is just totally screwed up. I much prefer the Pro Tools way of doing it where there is just a single name, and that's the end of it. You always know that the one name is the one name, there's no room for a second. It's not nearly as flexible, and I know a lot of people do use the multiple name capacity of Logic, but the "one name" of Pro Tools is idiot-proof, and when it comes to naming, I can be quite an idiot.
Orren
Absolutely right. This multiple-naming "feature" also compounds the confusion many new Logic users will experience regarding Tracks, Channel Strips, and Objects.
To be honest, I have been using Logic for years, and I still get confused at times. Maybe I'm just easily confused.
...mk3
The default in L8 is actually to show Channel Strip names. The names you see in the tracks (by default) aren't Track Names, they are Channel Strip names.A quick query:
Why does the Mixer only give the option to show Track Names below the Channel Strips? There seems to be no way to show the Channel Strip Name instead, which seems rather odd, since these are....Channel Strips...
Unless you use the command to create a Track Name, in which case you'll first see the dummy name "*Track Name", or have configured your track header to do something else, you are editing the CHannel Strip name when you edit the name that appears in the track list.If you enter a name on the Arrange track header, this name will be the "track name."
If you have already named the "channel strip," this track name will replace it on the Mixer channel strip.
It does here, in 8.02, - both in Auto-Name mode and Channel Strip Name mode, if I don't use Track Names.Changing the Channel Strip name in the Arrange Window, however, does not affect the name below the Channel Strip in the mixer!
Maybe what you (or I) describe only appears on some Macs, but remember that the name you see in the track list actually IS not Track Names (by default), but Channel Strip names.Similarly, changing the name area below the Mixer Channel Strip will change the Track Name in the Arrange window, rather than (as one would expect) the Channel Strip Name.
If the track has actual track names (and not just "track list names' = names in the track list), that's true, but you can show Channel Strip Names in the channel strip still, if you enable 'Instrument Name' in the MIDI Track Components menu. Then they will appear at the top of the Channel Strip, and not at the bottom.So this really seems like a simple bug: There is no way to force the Channel Strip name to show below a Channel strip in the Mixer (at least for tracks with names).
Actually, it shows the Channel Strip name until you manually enter a track name - which I somehow like, even if it would be better to be able to show both (as an option).The Channel Strip in the mixer never had a (channel strip) name, but was only showing the Track name. If you turn off View: Track Name in the mixer, then the Channel Strip will show no name at all!
You probably use Track Names then?(One would expect it to show the Channel Strip name, but it never does).
But - that's not possible!Just to add to the confusion, try this:
Create several tracks in the Arrange Window all assigned to the same Channel Strip. Give them each unique Channel Strip names.
Unless you use the command to create a Track Name, in which case you'll first see the dummy name "*Track Name", or have configured your track header to do something else, you are editing the CHannel Strip name when you edit the name that appears in the track list.If you enter a name on the Arrange track header, this name will be the "track name."
It's so easy to call the name in the track list for track names, but that's how all this got messy in the first place. The thing that works the best, is to stick to naming Channel Strips only, because these names appear also in the Mixer (unless you want to use track names to, which I do).
I like the idea of having an option for seeing both Channel and Track names for audio tracks in the at the bottom of the channel strips in the Mixer.
A quick query:
But - that's not possible!Just to add to the confusion, try this:
Create several tracks in the Arrange Window all assigned to the same Channel Strip. Give them each unique Channel Strip names.
My mistake - I meant give them each unique track names.
But just trying to follow this whole thread is evidence enough of how obtuse and convoluted the naming scheme is currently!!
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