Folder/Group Track Hybrids

[Alex.m.v]

Right now you can have a Folder track for organization, and you can have a Group track as a sort of Bus.

You should be able to have Folders that act as Group tracks. Giving Groups the ability to collapse and clean up the workspace!

[Grim]

Make a combined folder & group track; was: Make folder tracks = Group tracks

Not really sure what purpose folder tracks serve above just making a group track with a fader and channel capabilities / inserts for the selected contents. I think the current implementation just leads to messy projects that are harder to navigate. As in ableton, far better solution is: Select tracks → group, automatically have DAW send them to their own bus with fader on the group track. Click the group track in arrange window, it shows contents just like a folder track would. Way more elegan…

[Alex.m.v]

Exactly! This is exactly what I want. Ableton/Bitwig style group tracks where the group tracks is quite literally….a group. And can be collapsed to clean up the screen. But can do all the things a group tracks can do.

The folder track does have a place tho for orchestration where you want to maintain your routing but organize things a bit

[Johnny_Moneto]

Then please express your opinion in that topic in order to give it more weight.

[DosWasBest]

@Alex.m.v

You should be able to have Folders that act as Group tracks. Giving Groups the ability to collapse and clean up the workspace!

I believe you are the 106,230th person to state that request. I was 103,774 It’s in the features request pile for sure.

[Googly_Smythe]

@Alex.m.v

Ableton/Bitwig

Sorry, not sorry.

[Alex.m.v]

…Huh?

[awesomeaudio]

please read the linked thread,

it’s a tried and tired topic, with many reasons listed in there why Cubase does not and potentially should not do this.

[Googly_Smythe]

@Alex.m.v

…Huh?

There are far too many posts with variations of “Reason/Ableton.Bitwig/U-Name-It has A-Feature-I-Like and so Cubase must have it, too”. It’s boring.
Just because there is a feature in another program does not mean that said feature must therefore exist in Cubase. Or any other program, for that matter. The architecture of a program may not even allow it. These can’t just be added.

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I wonder, do the Ableton forums have posts of a similar nature? “Cubase has this feature, Ableton should, too!”

[Johnny_Moneto]

I think you’re being a bit rude here.
People should be allowed to speak their mind and make requests. And to point out how the requested feature should work by referring another DAW’s implementation seems to be rather helpful to me.

[Googly_Smythe]

@Johnny_Moneto

I think you’re being a bit rude here.

He asked for an explanation. That’s my opinion. And people are rude to me all the time.

[Alex.m.v]

Oh you’re one of those yell at the moon types eh?

You know it’s ok to have a solid feature in another daw but still prefer Cubase and think that feature would still fit at home in Cubase…right?

Man get a life

[Googly_Smythe]

@Alex.m.v

Man get a life

See what I mean.

[awesomeaudio]

Well the good news and the bad news, is that the linked thread has 120 votes.

[Googly_Smythe]

I don’t have much of an opinion either way. It’s been discussed to death in the linked thread.