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2013/10/22 11:08:57
scook
Etmos

 
Now if you can just tell me the hot key to create a folder to put my busses in, I'll be golden over here, ha...


No hot key but here is the link to the process to get bus folders created
2013/10/22 11:11:52
Etmos
scook

No hot key but here is the link to the process to get bus folders created


Hahaha... Thanks... I don't know if it's necessary enough for me to bother with an official feature request.  It's not THAT big of a deal.  I'm sure there are more important features that I'd rather they spend their time on.  I was just surprised when I realized I couldn't make them.  I figured it was something like that ALT trick, where I was just overlooking the option somewhere.  If it's not there, then it's not there I guess.  *shrugs*  Sort of glad to see that I'm not the only person that would use the feature though.
2013/10/22 11:35:44
neirbod
Etmos
scook

No hot key but here is the link to the process to get bus folders created

I don't know if it's necessary enough for me to bother with an official feature request.  It's not THAT big of a deal.  

 
It only takes a minute so not really a bother.  Just copy and paste what you already wrote here, and maybe provide the link to the thread.  It is a very good idea.
 
2013/10/22 11:44:44
Etmos
neirbod
 
It only takes a minute so not really a bother.  Just copy and paste what you already wrote here, and maybe provide the link to the thread.  It is a very good idea.



Done and done.
2013/10/22 11:53:40
joel77
I agree Etmos, that would come in handy at times.
 
Depending on the number of tracks, I may arrange my tracks into sub buses into buses into main buses into the master bus.
 
ie - snare tracks --> snare sub bus --> drum bus --> instrument bus --> MASTER BUS
2013/10/22 12:10:29
Rob[at]Sound-Rehab
Rather than bus folders (which would be the quick and easy improvement) I'd fancy auxillary tracks i.e. a track that could send its output to another track (AFAIK currently you can only output tracks to busses, audio interface outs or SC). 
 
Having aux tracks, a bus could stay a bus as it used to be in the analog days and things like mic grouping for the same instrument wouldn't require a bus, but an aux track that could sit in the same track folder right next to its sources ...
 
I know this is probably a "minor" improvement in the workflow as these sub buses just move left on the console, but a major programming effort and snake pit for programming errors when you open up that flexibility ...
2013/10/22 12:14:35
hockeyjx
joel77ie - snare tracks --> snare sub bus --> drum bus --> instrument bus --> MASTER BUS

 
Wow... that just seems over-complicated to my simple mind.
 
2013/10/22 12:19:40
Bristol_Jonesey
I'd still like to see nested folders in Track View.
 
As an example, you could have a top level Guitars Folder. Underneath that folders for Electrics, Acoustics, break thrm down further into Clean, Distorted, Bass, 6 string steel, 12 string, Nylon etc.
 
You can go even further with elaborate orchestral mockups
2013/10/22 12:21:11
AT
Cool about moving buses in the Console view.  I think I've hit a few keys while trying to move it, but it is easier to slide buses up and down in the bus TV rather than look up the answer.  And by the time I get to the forum Ive forgotten the question.  Now, if I can just remember the trick.  Of course, that means I'll forget something else - RAM full - like my name.  Life is a ****, and then you get old.  And forget.  What was I saying ...
 
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2013/10/22 12:34:40
Etmos
Bristol_Jonesey
I'd still like to see nested folders in Track View.



I agree 100% with this, I've been wanting that for years.  I still sometimes TRY to put folders into other folders, and then I realize "Oh wait, that's not ok..."  And then I have to rethink my normal "Windows" mindset when it comes to organizing content. 
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