Repro:
part 1
- add track
- open/show automation lanes
- add multiple autom. lanes
- use command ‘hide automation’
- use command ‘show automation’
–you will see automation setup is retained as you left it
part2
- with the same lanes open
- use command ‘Hide All Automation’
- use command ‘show automation’
–you will see your setup is gone
I had done a bunch of preliminary automation lane organizing (very time consuming) for all tracks in my template, so that when automation was opened, everything I would typically want at hand would be there ready.
Well, after I finished all this template work - I used the ‘Hide All Automation’ command, and it undid hours of this template work. HOURS.
This is misleading contradicting language and inconsistent behavior across commands.
If I use the single track commands ‘Hide Automation’ and ‘Show Automation’, it just minimizes the Automation Lanes, it doesn’t remove their expanded visibility:
If I use the ‘Hide All Automation’ command, it removes their expanded visibility:
Damn, did that ever annoy me. I went through bouts of anxiety completing that template… hundreds of tracks, multiple lanes each, organized in logical orders.
There needs to be differentiation between
-Minimize Automation Lanes
-Maximize Automation Lanes
and
-Hide - I guess should mean what it actually means - and “remove” the lanes from being visible in their expanded state. But you wouldn’t want to use “remove” as a user might conflate that with deleting automation.
I’ve unbinded this key faulty command now, and will instead use a custom PLE/Macro
Time to take a walk and clear this frustration.