Martin.Jirsak:
In general, I agree with you, and I would also like to have an option to set the Show/Hide status of a new track, but it’s not so simple. In fact, I could imagine lots of enhancements of the Add track dialog.
indiescore:
Add to all visibilities
Sorry, I don’t understand this. What “Add to all visibilities” means? All tracks are in the visibilities. Do you mean “Show in all Visibility Configurations”?
Yes , as it works now , I don’t like this but it seems to work for you.
indiescore:
Add to current visibility only
Do you mean something like “Show in current Visibility Configuration only”?
Yes , this would be my default setting.
indiescore:
Add to top of project only ( will not add to any visibility setting ) this way user can decide later where to put it and it never disappears until then
“Hide in all Visibility Configurations”?
No, track will insert at top of project regardless of what visibility configuration is active, track is in project but not in any visibility configuration ( like the beats or time track ) and floats at the top until assigned to a visibility configuration.
Btw: How would you distinguish Visibility Configurations of the Project window and the MixConsole?
Good question, Right now I think new tracks appear in the mixer across all visibilities and I have to go in and remove, and the assign assign left or right, same problem as project this is why I posted, I don’t want that.
JMCecil:
The idea that adding tracks to all visibility filters is somehow logical is truly weird.
Let’s say I’m tracking bugs. I set up a filter to show me only bugs for Halion. I enable that filter and only Halion bugs are showing. But tomorrow I come back and 50 new bugs have been entered but none of them are about Halion. And, the way to get my filter to work is to go remove those 50 bugs from my filter.
That makes no sense at all.
It sure doesn’t …if it’s not a bug then it’s just something that was half implemented it would be nice to hear an official response but we might need more replies to get attention.
Jeera
March 7, 2016, 11:08pm
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It appears that Steinberg is at least aware of the feature request:
It would be very handy to have a preference to give the option of automatically adding new tracks to pre-existing visibility presets. Currently the behavior is visibility presets in the arranger do not include new tracks added AFTER the visibility...
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J-S-Q:
…You could take it a step further and create a macro that hides currently selected tracks and then updates the config with a single key stroke. You would still have to do this for all configs but if you also have key commands to recall your different configs, it only takes seconds…
…I also use the track class selector in some of my configs. e.g. I have a config that shows all my groups and it is set to show ONLY group tracks. If I add an audio/instrument track to the project, it will not appear in this config.
Thanks J-S-Q - I see; understood. Yes, I used to run a ‘Groups’ visibility preset too.
Ok, I’ll get over my attacks of lazy-itis and get round to making these types of macros one afternoon - I can see they will help speed things along…
Cheers,
[EDIT] I notice the post above with a link to an SB recognised Feature Request, that may address this threads topic. Going to +1 there…
