Am i the only one with 70+ tracks that gets tired of 'group scanning' or scrolling for days in their projects?
Why is there no ability to search across my tracks by name? I mean, i'm assuming Live does know the name of all my tracks and their numerical position.
How are all you guys doing this? or all we all just so used to scrolling, or grouping. But i find myself still going back and forth a lot between groups and inner groups, and sometimes inner-inner-groups lol.
Just seems kind of maddening
Why is everyone anti-track search?
Re: Why is everyone anti-track search?
That would be great (if we can recall what we named them). The thing that always messes with me is after I move a track, the project jumps to a different position from where I just was.
Live 10.1.5, 2017 iMac 4.2 GHz i7, 40 GB Ram, Radeon Pro 580 8192 MB
Re: Why is everyone anti-track search?
I've noticed this too - it can be confusing and disorienting.
As for track search, are people 'anti' that? As far as I know, it's a feature many would like to see added (I know I would).
Re: Why is everyone anti-track search?
Just like Scg, I'm not seeing any "anti-track search" claim anywhere.
Sure, a search track feature could be helpful (and I'd love that, personally), but I'm more than often shocked by seeing how much people actually never name tracks... so what to do about this when implementing a search-track feature? Because if you do, then people that don't name their tracks will want this feature to work for them too... without the need to name their tracks. I'm pretty sure there's a few reasons that could turn this into something that's way harder to implement than we would think; it feels like the kind of feature that can't really work without serious workflow efforts/rules on the user side first.
Setting yourself consistent colours, groups and tracks naming conventions is crucial imo... and that's anyway the only way to go until maybe one day track-search will be implemented.
Sure, a search track feature could be helpful (and I'd love that, personally), but I'm more than often shocked by seeing how much people actually never name tracks... so what to do about this when implementing a search-track feature? Because if you do, then people that don't name their tracks will want this feature to work for them too... without the need to name their tracks. I'm pretty sure there's a few reasons that could turn this into something that's way harder to implement than we would think; it feels like the kind of feature that can't really work without serious workflow efforts/rules on the user side first.
Setting yourself consistent colours, groups and tracks naming conventions is crucial imo... and that's anyway the only way to go until maybe one day track-search will be implemented.
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