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Channel Icons in Studio One 6.1
This blog is part of our new series of tutorials based on the new features included in the latest update of PreSonus Studio One 6.1
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Channel Icons
Have you ever been in those situations in which you are mixing a song with so many tracks, it is hard to recognize which one is which?
Perhaps you are trying to read the names of the tracks, but they are just so many, it takes a while to get to the track you are searching?
Well, those days are over!
Why?
You can now add Channel Icons to your tracks in Studio One! Yes! A icon! A small visual drawing that resembles the sound source of that specific track.
So think about, a guitar icon on the guitar track, no need to actually read the name, you can just look at the icon and know that is in fact the guitar track!
Let’s give it a shot!
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Open or create a new Studio One song:
As it can be seen, we have four tracks: one vocal, two guitars and a bass.
As you can see, we have the tracks already identified with their names, and also color-coded.
Let’s go ahead and add Track Icons to this!
2.Click on the options icon:
The following options will appear as:
3. Click on the “Show Track Icons” option:
Track Icons area will show as:
As you can see, the icons area show empty spaces! Let’s fill those now.
4. Click on the icon area of the first track:
The following window will appear as:
From here, we can see the icons window, gives us categories, and each of the categories, shows the available icons.
For the purpose of this tutorial, this first track is a vocal track, so we can assign the “Lead Vocals” icon.
5. Select the proper track icon:
6. Repeat this process for the remaining tracks:
We can also show these icons in our console!
7. Switch to the console view:
8. On the top left corner, click on the Options icon:
Options will appear as:
9. Click on the “Channel Icons” option:
The Icons will appear as:
And that is it! Now you know how to use Channel Icons in Studio One 6.1!
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