Make folder tracks = Group tracks

[ggmanestraki]

Exactly. We think very much alike.

From a while ago:

Mixconsole: Visibility Suggestions (with screenshots)

New Visibility Agents Menu Option Request (with assignable key command) Show/Hide Connected Channels This command would allow non-exclusive spill/close of multiple selected groups (or buses). Example: Select a group and issue the command. The channels that are connected to the group are hidden. Issue the command again, the channels are shown. All other channels remain visible throughout. Option per group: Locking to zone also locks connected channels (with assignable key command) This opti…

And for groups:

Show Group, FX, VCA sources in Inspector

Have you seen how folder tracks have a list of contained tracks? [Folder track list] Well, now, what if we had the option to show sources of Group, FX, and VCA tracks in their respective inspector? [Inspector] Moreover, what if we could: select those tracks (and scroll to view while the group tracks inspector still stays open) re-route existing tracks into the group (add them) re-route existing tracks out of the group (remove them) Channel Settings window can do this for one source at a t…

One of the problems with group representation in the MixConsole is… track order. The folder=group thing solves this by cunningly (like an illusionist) packing tracks (to be channels) within a folder, i.e. right next to each other. Then, it’s easy in the mixer to do a slide-out of the channels included.

With regular groups, it’s easy to have channels 1-4, 12, 18-20 and 32 to be sent, or output to a group. Well… how to elegantly “spill” them if they’re so far apart in the mixconsole? That’s the big question. Can you just re-order tracks dynamically? Surely that shouldn’t be too difficult, but then what happens with control surfaces? Right now, we’re supposed to use bursts of “Show Connected Channels/Undo Visibility” for beautiful and quick viewing of connected channels, I wish this could be expanded to any selection of channels.

And the same for group tracks in the project. Right now I don’t find them useful in the least (in the project window). I lock them (so I don’t accidentally change levels by mis-click) and hide them. I prefer to insert plug-ins from the MixConsole instead. But if I had more features like in the link above, I would prefer them visible.