Specifications
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Group Spill
Group Spill lets you quickly bring all tracks in a particular group to the faders.
To spill a group:
1 On Page 1 (HOME) of the Touchscreen, press GRP SPILL.
2 Press SHOW TRACKS IN GROUP (the Soft Key lights to indicate it is active), then press the button for
any group shown in the top rows (such as
a:Group1). All other tracks in the session are hidden and the
members of the selected group appear on the faders.
To return to showing all tracks from the GRP SPILL page:
Press SHOW TRACKS IN GROUP, then press !:<ALL>.
Other Soft Keys in the
GRP SPILL page let you hide or select tracks by group, or suspend all groups.
Working with Track Groups on Artist Mix
To enable or suspend a track Group using Artist Mix:
1 Press SHIFT+AUX/GROUP. The display shows <All> in every fader display (or, the letter designation of
the last edited group).
2 Press the lit PAGE> keys to show other available Groups across the display. As you navigate to other
Groups, the encoder
SEL keys (in the encoder row) light to indicate an active (enabled) Group. In ad-
dition, track
ON keys light to indicate track membership in the currently displayed Group.
3 To enable a Group, press any unlit (encoder) SEL key so that it stays lit.
4 To suspend a Group, press any lit (encoder) SEL key.
Before using Group Spill, it is recommended that you create a Pro Tools Memory Location (Marker) and
configure it to store and recall Track Show/Hide status, so you can quickly return to the previous view
(unspill). You can create and recall Memory Locations from Artist Control (see “Using Markers (Mem-
ory Locations)” on page 48). To learn how to configure the Pro Tools Memory Locations window, see the
Pro Tools Reference Guide.
You can also press SHOW/HIDE TRACKS for more flexibility as to which tracks you want to show and
hide. For a few examples of how to use these commands, see “Showing and Hiding Tracks” on page 32.
On Pro Tools HD you can assign groups to VCAs and then view group members through the VCA track.
For more information, see “Viewing Groups in VCA Masters” on page 73.