Help Creating Tricky Macro

Cubase
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Hi,
I’m working on macros today, but I’ve come across one that I can’t figure out. Maybe you guys know the solution to this.
I select a track then:

  • Render (current settings)
  • Select original track
  • Disable track then Hide it
    Seems easy, but I can’t figure out how to get it to re-select the now-muted previous track that I just rendered. It only selects the new, rendered, version.

Any ideas?
Cheers

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Hi,

You could add a specific “flag” to the original track. For example, you can add a specific symbol to the track name, which you don’t use ever. For example @.

So the first two steps of the Macro would be:

  • Add @ to the name of the Selected Track.
  • Render In Place
  • …

Then you can search for a track with this specific symbol in the name. Remove the specific symbol and do the action, you want to trigger.

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Thanks, Martin, I’ll try that.

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Okay, so I’ve been experimenting with this to no avail. I think I don’t fully understand the part about the search.
Could you please show the order of all the key commands used in this macro?

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So, this is the renaming. You use PLE for that. In this example we prepend the track name with “@R@”.

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This is the PLE to remove the @R@ from the just newly and now selected track:

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This is the PLE to now select the initial track again, strip off the @R@, disable it, and hide it:

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Arrange these PLE presets in a macro.

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macro:
1- render
2- select all on track
3- up
4- disable track
5- hide selected track

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Thanks, guys. I’ll experiment with all of that.
Cheers