I'm not sure if it's appropriate for you, but my quickest way to find out what track I'm on, is to use a combination of control ; and control p, mixed with shift s. That way, I can quickly go down the list of tracks, and solo each one as I go.
HTH, Take care, Chris Norman Email and MSN: chris.norm...@googlemail.com Feel free to follow my music, either by following @cnproject on Twitter (www.twitter.com/cnproject), or by liking my Facebook page at www.facebook.com/thechrisnormanproject. On 1 Mar 2012, at 00:53, John Boral wrote: > Hey all, thanks so much for the great replies. Slau, no, I can't use a > control surface in a live club situation. These are large venues 5000 > + people and usually 5 engineers. I'm required to be quick while bands > are setting up which is why my posts keep talking about doing things > in a fast way. I'm trying not to interact as much as I can so I can > quickly move through tracks and select them. Chuck's idea is the one > I'd love but it's not working for me. Chuck, I had my GF resize the > window many different ways but unfortunately VO is not catching your > selection idea. Again, it seems however the window is resized when I > press VO space on a track it just beeps. Slau, I'm not sure what you > mean about scrubbing through a track but I can't use a control surface > until I'm home and then I can use a motor mix which I hope someone out > there can let me know if that will do the job. It worked great in PT > 5. Gord and Chris, the Protools is busy message is totally nuts. It > doesn't stop until I actually force quit and restart the machine. I > did try turning VO on and off but nothing. I have 2 machines, 1 with > Lion 7.2 and 1 with SL 6.8. They are both new 8 and 12 core machines > and the same behavior with everything happens on both. I'm using PT > HD9 in case anyone thinks that could be giving me trouble. Lots of ppl > talk about making sure the mouse is routed correctly but when I have > someone look at where my cursor is many times it's nowhere near where > it should be. For example, when I'm in a track list VO is reading > stuff to me that the mouse is not even close to. I do rout the mouse > to VO and tried VO to mouse but it seems many locations don't move > together. I've tried multiple ways of cursor tracking on and off and > it's also not all of the time. Our ideas here seem to be that VO goes > out of a window sometimes while interacting and the mouse isn't able > to get to it.
