Synchronization of Track and Mixer views

[John Vere]

I hadn’t noticed this before and I swear it didn’t happen in S1, But I dragged a bunch of midi and audio tracks into a blank project.
I coloured and renamed them. I noticed that the mixer view didn’t match my new names?
So I had to rename them as well??
I then added a new midi track and renamed it.
Everything became a big mess?
One of the original tracks was gone from the track view but was still showing in the mixer?
And then I noticed that one track that I had dragged up to a new location was still in the same place in the mixer view?
It all became overwhelming and I gave up.
In my 25 years of working with midi I have never seen anything like this!
Sure it might be pilot error but I’m using 3 different Daw’s and I don’t think this is possible with them.

 

[OutrageProductions]

In the (highly recommended) Navigation Essentials MACRO toolbar is a command to "copy track names to channels". [Studioonetoolbox.com]
Quite useful, as are all of the other commands in that script. You should try it.

 

[TimC340]

You aren’t supposed to be able to run v7 and v8 alongside each other, so how are you managing to drag tracks from one to the other?

I assume John is dragging audio and midi stems from a Windows folder into v8. I’ll give it a try later and see if my experience is similar.

 

[Lukas]

I hadn’t noticed this before, and I swear it didn’t happen in S1, but I dragged a bunch of MIDI and audio tracks into a blank project.
I colored and renamed them. I noticed that the mixer view didn’t match my new names.
So I had to rename them there as well?
I then added a new MIDI track and renamed it.
Everything became a big mess.
One of the original tracks was gone from the track view but was still showing in the mixer.

This is not a new behavior - it has always been like this. It’s simply the way instruments and instrument tracks work.

I have a couple of videos on that topic. This is probably the most comprehensive one:

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What you see in the mixer is not the instrument track itself. It’s the channel of the instrument plug-in.

If you have only one instrument track for an instrument, renaming the track will usually also rename the channel, and vice versa. However, this breaks down if you have more than one instrument track connected to the same instrument. In that case, you no longer have a 1:1 relationship, so mirroring the name doesn’t work anymore.

I suspect that this is what happened in your case.

 

[Lukas]

You aren’t supposed to be able to run v7 and v8 alongside each other, so how are you managing to drag tracks from one to the other?

It's not possible on Windows (maybe ASIO is the reason), but it is on macOS.

 

[John Vere]

What is with all this 6 pages of?? Does anyone even read posts like that?
I thought moderators only allowed one topic per post?

Anyway thanks @Lukas for your clarification.
I was thinking it was a setting that I couldn’t find.