my "hide tracks" work around
my "hide tracks" work around
this might already be a known way to work around this, but I started doing it in a few projects and thought I would share.
Basical, your basic tracks that eventually go unused. In pro tools I was always used to deactivating and hiding these tracks so when I had a cluster of them in Live it got annoying. I basically just make a group, call it unused tracks and throw them in there deactivated. I can collapse this and it doesn't get in the way at all.
Hope someone finds this useful.
Basical, your basic tracks that eventually go unused. In pro tools I was always used to deactivating and hiding these tracks so when I had a cluster of them in Live it got annoying. I basically just make a group, call it unused tracks and throw them in there deactivated. I can collapse this and it doesn't get in the way at all.
Hope someone finds this useful.
Re: my "hide tracks" work around
Yeah, that's a good way to hide them.
Another way you can do this is to create a folder inside your project folder, and drag the unused tracks into it. I usually rename them after dragging to help remember what exactly the tracks were about. You can drag multiple tracks this way. Then just delete them from the project. If you want them back, you can just drag them back in! About the same time as dragging them down to the bottom of a PT session and deactivating them.
-Luddy
Another way you can do this is to create a folder inside your project folder, and drag the unused tracks into it. I usually rename them after dragging to help remember what exactly the tracks were about. You can drag multiple tracks this way. Then just delete them from the project. If you want them back, you can just drag them back in! About the same time as dragging them down to the bottom of a PT session and deactivating them.
-Luddy
Re: my "hide tracks" work around
wow, that is even better for tracks you want to keep but are almost 100% sure you may not use again. I keep forgetting about that feature with Live... it's pretty impressive.
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Re: my "hide tracks" work around
Thanks...
Learned another feature of Ableton...
Learned another feature of Ableton...
No! I'll never use the Push-App Live 9 !!!
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Re: my "hide tracks" work around
This is such an obvious thing that I would have never realized. Great tip!!!
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Man i don't understand why we have to do all this for a damn basic function like hide tracks. I payed hard earned money to buy live suit and it sucks why they don't pay attention to essential basic functions, they keep pampering these daddies money rich wanna be artists with crappy music and never offer good basic functions to real music producers. Wish I could go back in time and start learning Cubase. Now its even too late to change the daw without having a major drop in production line.
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Thanks for this!
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Also a new lappy: i7 1269, 32 gigs of ram.
Also a new lappy: i7 1269, 32 gigs of ram.
Re: my "hide tracks" work around
Live now does auto save so you can name and delete track even and pull it back in if needed.n8tron wrote: ↑Wed Oct 13, 2010 1:06 amthis might already be a known way to work around this, but I started doing it in a few projects and thought I would share.
Basical, your basic tracks that eventually go unused. In pro tools I was always used to deactivating and hiding these tracks so when I had a cluster of them in Live it got annoying. I basically just make a group, call it unused tracks and throw them in there deactivated. I can collapse this and it doesn't get in the way at all.
Hope someone finds this useful.
This will help free up resources as well where you can remove latency intensive tracks.
That said if you fear loss of data you can save track to an external location as well and pull it back when needed.
This is more archiving the track instead of hiding it.
Re: my "hide tracks" work around
You can also create an "unused tracks" in the Projects folder, and drag'n'drop there from the Browser as needed.
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