User Manual

TRACK FOLDERS AND TRACK GROUPS
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Use the Track Groups window as follows to manage
track groups:
Group types
Track grouping allows you to apply operations to
the tracks in the group as a single unit. For
example, for a mix group, moving the volume fader
for one track in the group moves the faders in all
tracks in the group. The Group Type menu
(Figure 21-3) lets you determine which operations
are affected by the group:
Mix group
A Mix group controls track volume, play-enable
(mute/unmute), solo, solo exempt status,
automation play-enable, automation record-enable
and automation mode.
If tracks are grouped for mix volume, dragging any
fader within the group moves all members of the
group, scaling them proportionally to their current
values. Option/Alt-dragging temporarily overrides
the group to adjust a control relative to the group.
☛ You can override the grouping for volume and
pan in the Mixing Board by holding down the
Option/Alt key while dragging the fader or pan
pot.
Edit group
An Edit group controls time range selections. If you
make a time range selection in one track, all other
tracks in the group are included. It also includes
inserting, reshaping and dragging continuous data,
as well as the following track display characteristics
in the Sequence Editor: edit layer, continuous data
mode, track size and vertical zoom size.
Mix & Edit group
A Mix & Edit group controls both the Mix and Edit
group operations described above.
VCA group
Use the VCA group setting when you wish to
control the volume of the tracks in the group with a
VCA track, but you don’t want (or need) any Edit,
Mix or Custom group parameters for the group.
With VCA volume control, the VCA track controls
all of the individual track faders, but dragging an
individual track fader only controls that fader, not
the rest of the group, as it does for a Mix group. In
addition, the VCA track controls the Solo, Mute,
and Record Enable settings for the VCA group. Mix
automation data, if any, is also affected. For more
information about VCA tracks, including how to
assign a VCA track to a group, see chapter 19,
“VCA Tracks” (page 153).
Custom group
A Custom edit group lets you control a customized
set of operations that you specify in the Custom
group dialog (Figure 21-4). Check the items you
To do this: Do this:
To rename a track
group
Double-click or Option/Alt-click its
name.
To delete a track
group
Click it to highlight it and choose Delete
Track Group from the mini-menu.
To view the tracks in a
group
Click its disclosure triangle
To add a track to a
group
Select the tracks (or make a selection in
the tracks you wish to add), click the
track group in the Track Groups window
to highlight its name, and then choose
Add Selection to Group from the mini-
menu.
To add a grouped
track to another
group
Temporarily disable track grouping (see
“Temporarily suspending track groups”
on page 180) and then use the procedure
above.
To remove a track
from a group
Click it to highlight it and choose Remove
Tracks from Group in the mini-menu.
To temporarily dis-
able or enable a group
Click the box to the left of its name.
To change the group
type
Choose it from the Type menu as shown
in Figure 21-3.