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Work with folders
Folders overview
A folder is a region that can contain other regions, similar to a folder in the Finder that can
contain dierent les. You can generally edit a folder in the same ways you edit a MIDI region.
A folder can be thought of as an arrangement within an arrangement. A folder can contain as
many tracks (with their regions) as needed. When a folder is closed, it looks like a MIDI region in
the Tracks area:
When open, a folder looks just like the Tracks area for a project:
The track containing the folder doesn’t have a channel strip. Its track header shows a folder icon
in place of an instrument icon.
If you drag a folder to a software instrument track, all MIDI regions in the folder are played
by that instrument. This can be useful if the folder contains tracks for a given instrument or
instrument type, such as a drum kit, string sound, or brass section, for example. This provides
a quick way of listening to a string arrangement if some of the intended sound sources
are unavailable.
Similarly, an entire project could itself be a folder, appearing as a gray beam in the Tracks area.
In this way, you could arrange several projects for a concert. Another possible use might be to
store dierent arrangements of a project in dierent folders, allowing you to switch between
them rapidly.
You can also use folders to represent song sections such as verses and choruses, for example. You
can nest folders within other folders, with no limit to the number of levels you can create.