X-Git-Url: http://shamusworld.gotdns.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=_manual%2F10_working-with-tracks%2F10_track-and-bus-groups.html;fp=_manual%2F10_working-with-tracks%2F10_track-and-bus-groups.html;h=64a00232a12496c366e3595dd4059131ba7ae4db;hb=33c301104caebd44a7aa6fd09d563fc8f622764d;hp=f9afc5dc055c30ece50fdb57311321b6332c07c0;hpb=2781be76838eb059d23935d47f2b0f418a65dd35;p=ardour-manual-diverged diff --git a/_manual/10_working-with-tracks/10_track-and-bus-groups.html b/_manual/10_working-with-tracks/10_track-and-bus-groups.html index f9afc5d..64a0023 100644 --- a/_manual/10_working-with-tracks/10_track-and-bus-groups.html +++ b/_manual/10_working-with-tracks/10_track-and-bus-groups.html @@ -5,16 +5,19 @@ title: Track and Bus Groups
Tracks and busses can be put into groups. Members of a group - can share various settings — useful for managing tracks that are closely + 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).
+You can group tracks and busses in various ways. In the editor window, a track's controls might look like these:
- + + +The green tab to the left of the track header indicates that this track is in a group called Fred. You can drag these tabs to add @@ -22,9 +25,11 @@ title: Track and Bus Groups
There are several ways to create groups for tracks and bussess:
+Context-click on a group tab and select Remove Group from the menu. Removing a group does not remove the members of a group.
+You can also remove groups by selecting them in the Groups tab of the Editor Lists @@ -54,17 +61,20 @@ title: Track and Bus Groups
Click the g 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 No Group to remove it.
+Alternatively, you can also drag a group tab to add or remove tracks from the group.
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 @@ -72,15 +82,17 @@ title: Track and Bus Groups groups are coloured grey.
To edit the properties of a group, context-click on its tab and choose Edit Groupâ¦. This opens the track/bus group dialog, which is also used when creating new groups:
- +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 @@ -89,6 +101,7 @@ title: Track and Bus Groups
Gain means that the track faders will be synced to always have the same value; Relative means that the @@ -98,6 +111,7 @@ title: Track and Bus Groups gain of -6 dB will result in the second track having a gain of -4 dB (the difference of the gains remains the same).
+Muting, Soloing, @@ -108,45 +122,50 @@ title: Track and Bus Groups are all straightforward. They simply mean that all member tracks or busses will share the same settings in these respects.
+Selection means that if a region is selected or deselected on one member track, corresponding regions 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. + currently selected regions, this is the way to make edits apply across all tracks in the group.
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+Context-clicking on the group tab offers a further menu of group-related actions.
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