Instruction Manual

344 Arranging

Track Folders

2. Using the Mute tool, hold down the Ctrl key and drag through the region

of a clip or clips that you want isolated (soloed).

Any overlapping regions become muted. To de-isolate the isolated region,

release the Ctrl key, and drag through the upper half of any muted regions.

If you want to temporarily switch to the Alternate style of isolating (see

procedure below), hold down the Alt key along with the Ctrl key, and click

whole clips instead of dragging through regions.

To Isolate Clips with the Alternate Style

1. Choose Mute Entire Clips under Click+Drag Behavior in the Mute

tool dropdown menu.

2. Using the Mute tool, hold down the Ctrl key and click the clips that you

want isolated.

Any overlapping clips become muted. To de-isolate the isolated clips,

release the Ctrl key, and click any muted clips.

If you want to temporarily switch to the Default style of isolating, hold down

the Alt key along with the Ctrl key, and drag through the regions you want

isolated.

Track Folders

A track folder contains tracks in the Track pane of the Track view. Track

folders make larger projects much easier to manage—you can group

different types of tracks in their own folder: vocals, soft synths, ReWire

instruments, drums, etc.

The main characteristics of a track folder are:

• You can edit all the tracks in the folder as if you were editing a single

track—especially valuable for drum tracks. The track folder displays a

composite clip in the Clips pane of all the clips in the folder. Selecting a

time range in the composite clip selects data in all the enclosed tracks

in the same time range; now you can edit all the tracks in the folder by

editing the selected area of the composite clip.

• You can hide tracks in a folder, freeing up space on your screen.

• A folder can contain any type of track—you can put MIDI, audio, and

synth tracks in the same folder.

• You can archive, mute, solo, arm, or input monitor all the tracks in a

folder with one click—just click the A, M, S, R, or Input Echo button on

the track folder.