Just found a real gem. Instead of multi selecting stuff all the time to mute, solo, change i/o, adjust levels, etc... apparently you can just hold Ctrl and the changes will apply to all tracks of that type (MIDI or Audio but not both). That's pretty cool. Just thought I'd share although I'm sure many of you already knew that. I'm finding so many neat little tricks as I bumble through the manual. I've also learned how to properly punch/loop record today (which is going to be awesome) and found the Mute New Takes option which was driving me nuts.

Don't mind me. I'm just blathering. Hope you all are having a good Sunday.

Cheers.

Cool. It works for Pro Channel setting as well. :-D

Yes, that feature is called Quick Groups.

Scott

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It's called quick grouping. Works on a multitude of things as you've found including inserting, deleting, replacing PC modules, inserting sends,etc. etc. not just in the Track View either.

Hi, Karl. Hi, Scott. See I was under the impression Quick Grouping involved selecting the desired tracks with either Ctrl or Shift and then applying the changes. I didn't realize it could be done by just holding Ctrl.

BTW... could you guys take a look at this thread for me?

http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=2750665

If anybody would know how to do this it would be you smart fellows.

Cheers. 

And I guess to explain further I thought to adjust stuff like that the track numbers had to be blue. Silly and basic I know but I thought it was pretty cool. Cheers.

Beepster


And I guess to explain further I thought to adjust stuff like that the track numbers had to be blue. Silly and basic I know but I thought it was pretty cool. Cheers.

It does work on selected only tracks (when they're blue) but works on all tracks (of the same type) when none are selected.

Another top tip is that with nothing selected at all most options and commands such as export treat that as if you'd done a "Select All".

Yup. Learned that on my last export with the "Edit > Select > None" step. I kind of learned stuff erratically just to get stuff done but man did I ever miss a lot. Fixing that now.

Cheers.

I hate to put a damper on this but no it is not universal. Load a MIDI file natively and try to use ctrl+ outs to change the MIDI outs. That is a bug that CW is aware of. Further it wont work with banks either but not just with MIDI files. If you save the project as a cwp file after a reload the outs will work but not the banks. 

In Sonar 8.5 and older this was very easy to do and I had a shortcut F key on my Mackie Control to access this in both cases. This is no longer the case. 

I do think the non working of the ctrl key in these instances is a bug and it was not fixed in the A patch.  

Thanks for the warning, John. Does that apply when the tracks are manually selected as well (the track numbers are Blue)?

Again OT but does anyone know about that audition at current Now Time question? I'm kind of guessing I might be out of luck there which is a shame. Cheers.