Ableton Forum

While using Live, I tend to use up a lot of tracks. Things become really cluttered, and it's often a pain to constantly scroll up and down when you are monitoring your events and changing things on the fly. A great feature I would like to see in future versions of live is the ability to create folders in the arrangement view. That way if I (or any other user) were tweaking the drums, we could set up a drums folder with alll the containing samples and midi files for easy display, while hiding things that we don't need. Would be easier on the eyes methinks.

yeah, that one would be nice.

I would sell shares of my soul to ableton if they added this.

I'm in the middle of mixing some drums and the lack of ways to group tracks is making life difficult.

What you can do at the moment is have the outputs of one track go to another track - so you can apply a effect to a whole set of tracks (you can also use the send in the traditional way that I've started to experiment with).

Down side of the many tracks in to one is to solo a track that feeds into another you have to solo both tracks (you have to remember the modifer key, which you probably have to do too much in Live)


The other way woould be to make it more like photo shop - as suggested use folder, group things like that. Effectively a set of tracks can have their own master track, much like I did by using one track they all fed into but with more flexibility and ease of use. Soloing a track in a folder would solo that track without having to turn on the folder.

Taking it a few steps if you do have a lot of tracks sooner or later things are going to slow down, as they have with my drum mixing. What would be great if I coudl 'freeze' the current state of the drums and free up all the compression and reverb I was using on those tracks but then be able to unfreeze the whole folder when I want to tweak!

Effectively the folder is like a sub project. Should be easy to folks to understand ratther than messing about with routing.

Stew Dean