Make groups importable!

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Stromkraft
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Make groups importable!

Post by Stromkraft » Wed Apr 19, 2017 12:30 pm

I use groups as busses very seldom and seldom move tracks between sets, so this haven't come up in 4 years.

Grouping a set of tracks is a quick way of bussing an instrument group to treat them collectively and being able to collapse multiple tracks into one visible (the group track itself). This comes at the price of not being able to import the group track however. This stupid limitation also applies to return tracks. How does this make sense? It makes no sense to me!

Please make group tracks fully importable! And return tracks! And the Master devices!

Vote here for SUG-1184: Dragging groups, return tracks and master channel from another set in the browser, into current set
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TAWGS
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Re: Make groups importable!

Post by TAWGS » Thu Jul 20, 2017 7:25 pm

1)from file menu open session with group you'd like to import
2)collapse group
3)highlight group and hit command C
4)from file menu open new session where you'd like to import group
5)highlight a track and hit command V
6)Done

Stromkraft
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Re: Make groups importable!

Post by Stromkraft » Thu Jul 20, 2017 10:16 pm

TAWGS wrote:1)from file menu open session with group you'd like to import
2)collapse group
3)highlight group and hit command C
4)from file menu open new session where you'd like to import group
5)highlight a track and hit command V
6)Done
Yes! A great workaround. Thank you! However, my request still stands.
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dm199913
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Re: Make groups importable!

Post by dm199913 » Thu Jul 27, 2017 5:22 am

Drag the group header to the browser (like you would a clip), it will save as a .als file
Drag it into whatever project you want :)

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