Reply To: Preview 2.26: Track toolbar & track categories

@Zynewave wrote:

@thcilnnahoj wrote:

@Zynewave wrote:

1. Is there a way to add multiple tracks at once with the “+” button on the toolbar?

Not currently. Clicking will open the track properties dialog, for naming the new track. If you need an initial number of tracks, isn’t it sufficient that you have the track setting in the “new arrangement” dialog?

Well… for once, I would take a guess most people don’t know exactly how many tracks it’s going to be in the end. That may be a kind of user error, but it still happens. The situation I sometimes find myself in personally is drum tracks. You can’t specify things like “create 2 group tracks, one with 8, the other with 6 child tracks” in the new arrangement dialog.
Maybe this is best done with track templates… I do however see multiple track creation as a rather basic function. Either way, that’s my opinion on it.

Whenever I need a set of new tracks, I create one track, press Ctrl+C and then Ctrl+V for each additional track. As long as the number of required new tracks are below 10, I think this is a faster process than selecting a “Create X new tracks” menu command to show a dialog, inputting the decimal value, and pressing enter. Using copy/paste you also preserve track settings and the effect chain. But I don’t mind adding the menu as there seems to be a demand for it. What should the menu command be called, and where would you want it?

Two things:
1. I would want it in the same menu that has “Add New Track”. So, “Add Multiple Tracks” could be the next option. This would work if…
a. The tracks would numerate automatically
b. A user could select multiple tracks to drag into a group (or even via a context menu)

I see the appeal of copy/paste but it does have the small (and I mean ever so small) downside of giving each track an identical name. Also, right-clicking 15 tracks to add them to a group is not quite as appealing as selecting all of them and doing the same thing in one step.

I can also see an advantage of not filling up this thread with suggestions for this request and moving it to its own thread. I think several users would like input on this feature and it may need its own area for discussion.