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Working with tracks and lanes
Moving tracks
• To move a track, click and drag it up or down in the list.
• To move one or several selected tracks to a folder, se-
lect “Move Selected Tracks to New Folder” from the con-
text menu.
Disabling tracks
Audio tracks can be disabled by selecting “Disable Track”
from the track list context menu. Disabling a track is similar
to muting it (see
“Muting events” on page 65), since a dis-
abled track will not be played back. However, disabling a
track not only “zeroes” the output volume from the track,
but actually shuts down all disk activity for it. For more in
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formation, see “About track disable/enable” on page 86.
Track folding
On the Project menu you will find the Track Folding sub-
menu, allowing you to quickly show, hide or invert what is
displayed in the Project window event display. This en-
ables you for example to divide the project into several
parts (by creating several folder tracks for the different
project elements) and showing/hiding their contents by
selecting a menu function (or using a key command). You
can also fold in automation tracks this way. The following
options are available:
• Toggle Selected Track
When you select this menu option, the fold state of the selected track is
reversed, i.
e. if the track was folded in (its elements (subtracks) were hid-
den), it is now unfolded (all subtracks displayed) and vice versa.
• Fold Tracks
Select this menu option to fold in all open folder tracks in the Project win-
dow. Please note that the exact behavior of this function depends on the
“Deep Track Folding” setting in the Preferences dialog, see below.
• Unfold Tracks
Select this menu option to unfold all folder tracks in the Project window.
Please note that the exact behavior of this function depends on the
“Deep Track Folding” setting in the Preferences dialog, see below.
• Flip Fold States
Select this menu option to flip the fold states of the tracks in the Project
window. This means that all tracks that were folded in will be unfolded
and all unfolded tracks will be folded in, respectively.
• Move Selected Tracks to New Folder
This menu option is available, if at least one folder track is available. Se-
lecting this option moves all selected tracks to the folder track.
Ö You can assign key commands for these menu options
in the Key Commands dialog (Project category).
In the Preferences dialog (Editing–Project & Mixer page),
you can find the following option affecting the track folding
behavior:
• Deep Track Folding
When this is activated, any folding settings you make in the Track Fold-
ing submenu of the Project menu also affect the subelements of the
tracks, i.
e. if you fold in a folder track which contains 10 audio tracks 5 of
which have several automation tracks open, all these audio tracks within
the folder track will be folded in as well.
Working with lanes
Ö To simplify matters, the descriptions in the following
paragraphs focus on cycle recordings with takes. How-
ever, you can also apply lane operations and comping
methods on overlapping events or parts that you assem-
ble on one track!
If you perform a cycle recording in the “Keep History” or in
“Cycle History + Replace” modes (audio) or in the
“Stacked” or “Mix-Stacked” modes (MIDI), the recorded
cycle laps are shown on the track with the last recorded
take active and shown on top.
The “Show Lanes” mode provides a very comfortable work-
ing environment and a good overview of all your takes. If you
activate the “Show Lanes” button, the recorded takes are
shown on separate lanes.
Click the “Show Lanes” button…
…to display the recorded takes on different lanes.