Filter for showing only frozen tracks?

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Is it possible to set a show/hide filter for frozen tracks? Or to make such a function in the PLE?

Often I’m finding I have a lot of frozen tracks in a session and I want to make an arrangement decision like deleting a few bars of time in the arrangement (Delete Time). In order to do this properly though of course I’ve got to unfreeze everything first so those tracks are included.

It’d be great to be able to simply show only frozen tracks in the arrange page for this purpose, select all and then use the multiple unfreeze option, as I have pretty large sessions/templates.

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Hi,

Sorry, this is not possible.

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Hi (I hope it is not too late yet…)

I believe that you know how to define PLE’s and macro’s.

So: just the idea of helping Cubase to recognize a frozen track:
Add something to the track name.
I use (frozen) as a token.
Then when you want to freeze a track: select them and then use the macro, not the usual edit command.

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Macro: Freeze and rename

  • Process Project Logical Editor - Add frozen token
  • Edit - Freeze/Unfreeze Selected Tracks (with Current Settings)

Macro: Unfreeze and rename

  • Process Project Logical Editor - Select frozen tracks
  • Edit - Freeze/Unfreeze Selected Tracks (with Current Settings)
  • Process Project Logical Editor - Remove frozen token

And the of course, define key commands.

Hope this helps.
K

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Your request was interesting to me, so I jumped right to the drawing board.
Result: Not enough testing and a less than perfect solution.

The general idea is that unfortunately the freeze/unfreeze command is only a toggle and not two separate commands.

Therefor I want to avoid that I select an already frozen track when I intend to freeze a number of unfrozen tracks.
That is why I check if the token (frozen) is already in the name.

Unfortunately (again) we cannot use IF THEN ELSE, so my macro unfreezes the already frozen and mistakenly selected track anyway.

Because I like programming, I shall update my solution, do plenty of tests and post here.

Sorry for any confusion.
Best
K

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Also removed some blanks in the PLE’s.
The first macro (Freeze and rename) now also tests for accidentally selected already frozen tracks.

Macro: Freeze and rename

  • PPLE - Deselect frozen tracks
  • PPLE - Add frozen token
  • Edit - Freeze/Unfreeze Selected Tracks (with Current Settings)

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Macro: Unfreeze and rename

  • PPLE - Select frozen tracks
  • Edit - Freeze/Unfreeze Selected Tracks (with Current Settings)
  • PPLE - Remove frozen token

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Good luck with it!

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Hi,

Have you tried to select multiple tracks and freeze them? This might work, which would be another useful feature of the Macro.

Then the testing fun starts…

  • Select multiple frozen tracks and Unfreeze them.
  • Select a frozen and unfrozen track and Freeze them by using your Macro.
  • Select a frozen and unfrozen track and Unfreeze them by using your Macro.

Have fun. :wink:

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Multiple tracks do indeed work fine.
After placement of tokens, you can mix frozen and unfrozen tracks and then freeze the unfrozen ones and leave the frozen alone.
A mixed selection has no effect on unfreeze, because my macro finds the frozen tracks independent of what was selected. And then unfreezes those.
Note: you can do amazing things when you use tokens; e.g. all keyboard tracks have kb: in the name, so I can automatically colour them, hide them, show them. And that for all instrument groups and even distinguish between flute and alto flute. Etc etc.
Same for folders, groups, dubgroups, stems…

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