Set Track Height Limits per Track Type in preferences, as well as, individual track height lock

[Tim_Dillon]

This should have 100% been implemented by now, this is one of those “it’s the simple things that make the biggest differences to us”

• Separate settings for both minimum and maximum height

• a key command for the preference to enable/disable setting

• Right click menu on track - option to lock that individual track (can select multiple tracks at once and do same)

This has been discussed for many years in the forums, albeit, not getting a lot of attention, but very logical and pragmatic feature everyone will benefit from. ESPECIALLY, laptop users.

Me personally, I’d really appreciate being able to set a limit on Folder tracks.

Year 2013

Anyway to keep specific track heights expanded

In the project window I typically have the un-selected tracks at a height of 2 rows and the selected track at 4 or 5 rows. On occasion there are times when I’d like a specific track to remain expanded even when it is not selected, for example the new chord track. But there doesn’t seem anyway to do this. Whenever I manually adjust the track height, it becomes selected and I’m really adjusting the height for selected tracks. And then when I select another track the track I’d expanded reduces itse…

Pref for minimum track height?

My tracks spend a lot of time at their minimum display height, to fit as many as possible on the screen at once. But at that size, it’s not possible to get to the color control button without dropping down a new automation track instead. It’s annoying, especially when creating new tracks, to have to select the new tracks and drag them to a taller size to set them up, before returning them to their minimum. Can anyone think of a faster way for me to set up tracks? Just a few pixels taller than…

Year 2014

Lock individual track height?

Is this possible? In 7.5? I like to bounce audio on vst’s or external synths and keep the midi or vst minimized and muted above the bounced audio. Is there any way to lock track height for individual tracks? Haven’t been able to figure out how… if I choose other track height presets, or inc/dec height size the ‘lock’ on minimized tracks does nothing to the height…

Changing Default Maximum Track Height

Whenever ever I use ‘Zoom to Selection’ the track height becomes very large - which is what I want - but it remains that way and I can’t get back to the track height I had before. I am guessing the only way to deal with this is to set up a zoom preset or use the Undo Zoom command. But I would rather not have to execute another command if possible.

Year 2015

How to do I control/maintain track heights?

I’ve searched, but have yet to find an actual solution. The track heights in C8 are uneven, to say the least. I have it set where the one track I click on is supposed to be larger than the others. But, it doesn’t work that way. When I click on a new track, the old track doesn’t go back to the previous state. So, I attempt to fix the tracks by either lining them up manually, which doesn’t work. Or, I hold control that constrains the track heights to 2. But, as soon as I click on a track, the oth…

Year 2016 (Cubase 8)

Locking Track Height on folder tracks?

Is it possible to lock track height on folder tracks? It bugs me when I zoom in that my folder tracks grow as well. Is there a way to disable this behavior? Freddie H made a similar feature request here: https://www.steinberg.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=182&t=64039 Any progress made on this feature request?

Year 2017 (Cubase 9)

lock track height of individual track(s)

Can we lock the height on selected tracks so that when others are expanded/contracted those tracks remain fixed in height?

track height default for new tracks

haven’t been able to find a definitive answer for this, when I create a new track I want to set a default size so i’m not always resizing it after I create it. anyone know about this?

Year 2018 (Cubase 10)

Make Folder Tracks Static Size

Folders just sort of take up screen room and don’t need to be any bigger than the few buttons they have. Maybe two different static size options and then a free-size option that follows track size. [Untitled-1.jpg]

Year 2021

Lock track height

Similar requests on the forum: Locking Track Height on folder tracks? and lock track height of individual track(s). Thank you

[Timo00]

I don’t have any votes left, but if I did, I’d spend one on this!

Most important aspect to me is to lock folder height.

[mlindeb]

@Timo00

Most important aspect to me is to lock folder height.

I second this. There are such powerful features in Cubase that lets you show/hide and zoom tracks in all kinds of manners, but never do I need folder tracks to be the same height as audio or MIDI tracks.

@Timo00

I don’t have any votes left, but if I did, I’d spend one on this!

I second this as well!

[maggot]

@mlindeb @Timo00 fiy, you can retract your votes from other threads if you feel this is important.

+1 on this from me, it would be so much tidier, and allow audio tracks to always have max zoom priority.

I will say though, there should be one or two ways to negate the limitation on a track, like, Zoom Exclusive… Or, alt-click dragging on the track resize regions, etc, etc.

For example, I might keep Group Tracks relatively small, but, if I were to be drawing in automation on that track and want it momentarily wider, I could press my ‘Zoom Exclusive’ hotkey, and then press it again when I’m done which would put it back to its max limit.

[mlindeb]

@maggot

fiy, you can retract your votes from other threads if you feel this is important.

Yes, I’m aware.

PS. I’ll sell you one of my votes for 100 bucks if you feel this is important!

[SF_Green]

@mlindeb

PS. I’ll sell you one of my votes for 100 bucks if you feel this is important!

I’d wait for a Black Friday sale at that price

[mlindeb]

FYI, Black Friday Early Bird sales starts in April next year.

[maggot]

What if I tell you where to get a 100 bucks?

[suntower]

There should be a right click menu (like we had back in the day) and one of the options should allow one to instantly jump to the track title/edit/commands thing regardless of what lane or automation you are on.

[maggot]

This sounds like a different feature request?

[suntower]

Not really. They’re all inter-related. The bottom line is that everyone is looking for a way to -easily- navigate through tracks with lots of heights and lanes. It all covers so much real-estate that it makes navigation difficult. I think SB needs to take a clean sheet approach to the whole ‘accordion’ system. YMMV of course.

[maggot]

I’m having trouble understanding what exactly the fr you’re making is, can you draw a graphic maybe? I’m not sure what it is ‘back in the day’ you’re talking about, or ‘jump to the track title/edit/commands thing’ is? you mean the main/parent track?

I thought there was a new PLE for that? I could be wrong, it might be for something else.

[mlindeb]

@suntower

There should be a right click menu (like we had back in the day) and one of the options should allow one to instantly jump to the track title/edit/commands thing regardless of what lane or automation you are on.

Although I do not 100% understand the feature you’re describing, personally I would prefer a way that does not limit you to using a mouse. I prefer to use the mouse as little as possible. Or rather, using the mouse for what it is good at, which in my view is not clicking menus.
So as long as you can use the command as key commands and in the PLE, I’m open to any creative solution.

[maggot]

Just thought of this from the other thread convo,

In the context of ‘Set Track Height Limits per Track Type’

it would be AWESOME, if they gave us a few levels of Sub-Folder heights to customize. So the max for top level folder could be 4 lines, subfolder level 1 could be 3 lines, subfolder level 2 could be 2 lines, subfolder level 3 could be 1 line.

[ggmanestraki]

It would be nice to be able to lock heights per track…

Currently, there’s a monolithic way around this by wasting a perfectly fine feature. Zoom MEM and ZAP. It remembers everything. So you spend some time resizing the track list, heightening the important tracks, minimizing folder headers and what not, and when you’re satisfied you give the command for Zoom MEM. You start working, resizing as you like. When you need to come back to the preferred original heights, give the command Zoom ZAP. It’s also a good idea to Zoom ZAP before saving, so that you can Zoom MEM the next time you start working on the project.

“But I use Zoom MEM/ZAP mainly for editing!” That’s why I said it’s a waste of a perfectly fine feature, and that it would be nice to lock heights per track.

[maggot]

@ggmanestraki

It would be nice to be able to lock heights per track…

Yes, for example, a lead vocal track… Or a marker track you want to leave maximized because there are a lot of markers. Or some of the utility tracks would be nice to lock, Tempo Track, Video Track, etc, etc.

I do use Zoom Mem, also have some zoom specific PLE/Macros.

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This should also be a feature for specifically folder tracks, an ultra-minimized state toggable by keycommand