Say I have a kick drum copied out over 8 bars.. I want to select that 8 bar region, press Cmd+G or whatever, and have that become ONE moveable clip. (While still retaining the single clips inside, so you can go back). Makes it much easier to work with the arrangement.. I know, I can consolidate, but I don't want that
The way this works in Pro Tools is really nice. You can select anything, a mix of audio and midi regions, and still press Alt+Cmd+G, and it creates ONE block, that you then can move or slice or whatever. You can also create a hierarchy of groups. Say group 4 Kicks into a bar, then duplicate up to 8 bars and group those 8 x 1 bar regions to 1 x 8 bar region. THEN group that with the snare track below. Then if you press Alt+Cmd+U you ungroup one level up, and can make changes if you want.
Would also be great for chopped up vocals or whatever, where you want to be able to go back and tweak things, while still having the ability to arrange a section of chopped vocals without having to carefully selecting them all or accidentally moving one etc.
If this is already suggested, then let me know, I read the big thread with the collected requests and didn't seem to find it there.