[req] A quicker way of sending tracks to a group

Steinberg Lounge
#1

Usual scenario: an audio track loaded up with inserts, sends and eq gets doubled up for DT or harmonising, giving two tracks better handled through a group. The track settings all need tranferring to the group and removing from the tracks.

This takes ages! I’m sure a feature could be devised where:

  1. Selected tracks can be right-clicked and sent to a group (like they can now be to a folder)
  2. Before creating the group various options pop up:
    a) mono/stereo
    b) select which/none/all of the tracks’ inserts/sends/eq to move to the group

Before anyone suggests it, mixer setting can’t transfer between track types.

Any comments/improvements?

#2

I would like that one!

#3

I always route to groups from the get-go. :wink:

#4

If only I could plan ahead like that…

#5

That’s called sound engineering :smiling_imp:

#6

:stuck_out_tongue:

[Edit] Actually, it’s called writing by the seat of your pants

Anyway, what do you think of the idea? Pretty cool, huh? :sunglasses:

#7

Not a bad idea. Doesn’t support my workflow in any way (well … could save me a dozen mouse clicks a year), but maybe for someone else it’s good.

#8

I have Macros for adding an audio track and a group at once. Still have to route the track to the group, but that’s easy enough.

#9

The tracks tend to be there already but it’s the swapping over of settings that is the main pain.

#10

Not a bad idea, but the more options to choose ( mono/stereo… select which/none/all of the tracks’ inserts/sends/eq to move to the group), the more it comes closer to the existing workflow (the time it’ll take).

#11

I know what you mean. I was just trying to make it a bit more generic than for just my situation. But nearly always I end up transferring the lot, as described in the OP.

Maybe they should be two separate features, rather than part of the same one:

  1. send selected to group (with mono/stereo option) which would work like the new tracks to folder command.
  2. an easy means of transferring settings between tracks and groups.