I would like to make a macro (to be used on my IPad control app) which only affects the width of the automation lanes, not the width of the audio and instrument tracks.
So, once you are done writing MIDI and you want to finetune the automation you can enlarge the automation lanes and make the Instrument or audio tracks really tiny.
If you look in the Keycommands section i only see “Zoom vertically” and that affects everything. But i don’t want large audio tracks, just large automation lanes
So, is there anybody who found a solution for this?
You can Glue it with the Project Logical Editor (PLE). In the PLE make a condition: When Type Is > Automation track, and then as an Action, trigger the Macro from the PLE. Save the PLE settings as a preset. Then you can assigne Key Command to this PLE preset.
Sorry I wasn’t in front of Cubase. Now, I will hopefully make it totally clear. See attached screenshot, please. In the “Zoom In Automation” Macro, there is only the Zoom – Zoom In Vertically command.
…But unfortunately, it doesn’t work. Because the Zoom In Vertically command is always applied to the all track, not selected only.
I got it! Use Zoom In Tracks instead of the Zoom In Vertically, in the Macro. And as the Project Logical Editor Action, choose Select. So this is the correct PLE…
I like this idea but one problem is that the PLE preset will also select Group and Effects tracks if they have volume automation programmed. So in a big project, this technique ends up zooming in dozens of unwanted tracks at once.
Anyone have a solution? I can’t find a way to make the PLE select automation tracks but NOT Group/Effects tracks.
one solution is to put all the FX and Group tracks in a folder which gets closed before all tracks are reduced to 1 height. that way only the automation of instruments and audio gets enlarged.
I tried next step. I did two more PLEs: Show Group Channels and Hide Group Channels. And of course I have the old PLE Zoom In Automation. Then I made a Macro of these 3 PLE presets:
Hide Group Channels
Zoom In Automation
Show Group Channels
I would expect, this should work. If I do these steps one by one, then it works.
But unfortunately, for some reason, it doesn’t work as a chain in the Macro. :-/