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-title: Track and Bus Groups
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-<p>
- Tracks and busses can be put into <dfn>groups</dfn>. Members of a group
- can share various settings — useful for managing tracks that are closely
- related to each other. Examples might include tracks that contain
- multiple-microphone recordings of a single source (an acoustic guitar,
- perhaps, or a drum-kit).
-</p>
-<p>
- You can group tracks and busses in various ways. In the editor window,
- a track's controls might look like these:
-</p>
-<img class="left" src="/images/track-in-group.png" alt="track headers for a group" />
-<p>
- The green tab to the left of the track header indicates that this track
- is in a group called <samp>Fred</samp>. You can drag these tabs to add
- adjacent tracks to a group.
-</p>
-
-<h2>Create New Groups</h2>
-<p>
- There are several ways to <dfn>create groups</dfn> for tracks and bussess:
-</p>
-<ul>
- <li>Context-click on the group tab and use one of the <kbd
- class="menu">Create...</kbd> options there. You can create a group with
- no members, or one that starts with the currently selected tracks, or
- record-enabled tracks, or soloed tracks.</li>
- <li>Alternatively, click the ‘g’ button on a track header to open the
- Group menu. The menu lists the available groups. Selecting one of these
- groups will add the track or bus to that group. The menu also lets you
- create a new group.</li>
- <li>Finally, the <a href="/ardours-interface/the-groups-list/">Groups list</a>
- has a <kbd class="menu">plus (+)</kbd> button at the
- bottom of the list. Click on the plus sign to create a new group.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<h2>Remove Groups</h2>
-<p>
- Context-click on a <dfn>group tab</dfn> and select <kbd class="menu">Remove
- Group</kbd> from the menu. Removing a group does <em>not</em> remove
- the members of a group.
-</p>
-<p>
- You can also remove groups by selecting them in the <a href="/ardours-interface/the-groups-list/">Groups list</a>
- and then pressing the <kbd class="menu">minus (-)</kbd> button at the bottom of the list.
-</p>
-
-<h2>Add/Remove Tracks and Busses From a Group</h2>
-<p>
- Click the <kbd class="menu">g</kbd> button to display a menu with a list
- of the available groups. Select one of these groups to add the track or bus
- to that group. Select <kbd class="menu">No Group</kbd> to remove it.
-</p>
-<p>
- Alternatively, you can also drag a group tab to add or remove tracks from
- the group.
-</p>
-
-<h2>Activate/Deactivate Groups via the Group Tab</h2>
-<p>
- Clicking on a group tab toggles the group between being active and inactive.
- An inactive group has no effect when editing its members. An active group
- will share its configured properties across its members. Tabs for disabled
- groups are coloured grey.</p>
-
-<h2>Modify Group Properties</h2>
-<p>
- To edit the properties of a group, context-click on its tab and choose
- <kbd class="menu">Edit Group…</kbd>. This opens the track/bus group dialog,
- which is also used when creating new groups:
-</p>
-
-<img class="right" src="/images/route-group-dialogue.png" alt="the track/bus group dialog" />
-
-<h3>Group Color</h3>
-<p>
- Click on the color selector button to change a group's colour. This affects
- the colour of the group's tab in the editor and mixer windows. The color does
- <em>not</em> affect the color of the group members unless you also enable the
- shared <kbd class="menu">Color</kbd> property.
-</p>
-
-<h3>Shared Properties</h3>
-<p>
- <kbd class="option">Gain</kbd> means that the track faders will be synced to
- always have the same value; <kbd class="option">Relative</kbd> means that the
- gain changes are applied relative to each member's current value. If, for
- example, there are two tracks in a group with relative gain sharing, and their
- faders are set to -3 dB and -1 dB, a change of the first track to a
- gain of -6 dB will result in the second track having a gain of
- -4 dB (the <em>difference</em> of the gains remains the same).
-</p>
-<p>
- <a href="/working-with-tracks/bus-controls/#mute"><kbd class="option">Muting</kbd></a>,
- <a href="/working-with-tracks/bus-controls/#solo"><kbd class="option">Soloing</kbd></a>,
- <a href="/working-with-tracks/audio-track-controls/#record"><kbd class="option">record enable</kbd></a>,
- <a href="/ardours-interface/editor-lists/tracks-and-busses-list/"><kbd class="option">active state</kbd></a>,
- <a href="/working-with-tracks/controlling-track-appearance/track-coloring/"><kbd class="option">colour</kbd></a> and
- <a href="/recording/monitoring/"><kbd class="option">monitoring</kbd></a>
- are all straightforward. They simply mean that all member tracks or busses will
- share the same settings in these respects.
-</p>
-<p>
- <kbd class="option">Selection</kbd> means that if a region is selected or
- deselected on one member track, <a
- href="/working-with-regions/corresponding-regions-selection/">corresponding
- regions</a> on other member tracks
- will be similarly selected. Since region editing operations are applied to all
- currently selected regions, this is the way to make edits apply across all tracks
- in the group.
-</p>
-
-<h3>Group Tab Context Menu</h3>
-<p>Context-clicking on the group tab offers a further menu of group-related actions. </p>
-<dl class="wide-table">
-<dt>Create a New Group</dt>
-<dd>create a new group</dd>
-<dt>Create New Group from...</dt>
-<dd> create a new group and automatically add ...
-<dl class="narrower-table">
-<dt>Selected</dt>
-<dd>all currently selected tracks and busses</dd>
-<dt>Rec-enabled</dt>
-<dd>all currently record-enabled tracks</dd>
-<dt>Soloed</dt>
-<dd>all currently soloed tracks and busses</dd>
-</dl>
-</dd>
-<dt>Collect Group</dt>
-<dd>moves all the member tracks so that they are together in the editor window</dd>
-<dt>Remove Group</dt>
-<dd>removes the group (and only the group, not its members).</dd>
-<dt>Add New Subgroup Bus</dt>
-<dd> creates a bus (giving it the name of the group) and connects the output of each member to the new bus.
-</dd>
-<dt>Add New Aux Bus</dt>
-<dd>adds a bus and gives each member a send to that bus. There are two options for this, specifying whether the sends should be placed pre- or post-fader.</dd>
-<dt>Fit to Window</dt>
-<dd> will zoom the member tracks so that they fill the editor window.</dd>
-<dt>Enable All Groups</dt>
-<dd>makes all group active, including any hidden groups.</dd>
-<dt>Disable All Groups</dt>
-<dd>makes all groups inactive, including any hidden groups.</dd>
-</dl>
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