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@Malcolm Jacobson wrote:

I would also like the ability to select multiple tracks.

I plan to implement that soon after 2.26 is released. I am sticking to working on track management in the following releases, until I think there is not much more that can be improved.

@UncleAge wrote:

1. Would this “filter” also act on the mixer tracks as well?

Yes, I think so. Perhaps there are situations where you prefer the mixer to always show all tracks, so maybe I’ll make category show/hide optional in the mixer.

2. Would the category selections be exclusive?

I ask because I found this to be most useful when working in the mixer section. It was handy while drawing automation in the tracks as well but after the project was compete I had used this feature most during the first part of mixing the tracks.

I haven’t decided yet whether clicking a category button should automatically deselect other selected categories. You would then use shift+click to select a category without deselecting the others.

What is the other DAW you refer to?

@thcilnnahoj wrote:

but I’ll have to ponder some more about the balance of additional housekeeping vs. the benefits the “categorization” brings to the table. Maybe we’ll get a few ideas about disarming it – if that is necessary at all – after a beta becomes ready.

Setting up track categories will only make sense when you work with a lot of tracks. You can ignore this feature, and it will work like previous Podium releases. If you never work with a large number of tracks, you can choose to remove the track toolbar from the editor.

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?

2. How does this work with group tracks… If you select, for example, the “Bus Returns” group track to be shown, will it automatically show its child tracks? And will it update correctly if you add more child tracks (returns in this example) to it?

If you add a group track to a category, it will automatically include all child tracks.

3. Is it possible to have only child tracks from various groups shown, and if so, how will it affect the visual routing?

I haven’t implemented this yet, but I think that if you include a child track in a category, then it’s parent group track should also be displayed, at least as a collapsed track (6 pixel height). That way the hierarchic structure is intact.

[Edit] 4. (One more): Can you go still back to the a view of all tracks, categorized or not, or do you have to create an “all-encompassing” category first yourself? If it’s the latter, will it update if you add more tracks later on?

If you deselect all categories, it will show all tracks. Otherwise a track would be completely invisible if it wasn’t included in any categories. If you add a new track while you have a category selected, the track will automatically be added to that category.

@thcilnnahoj wrote:

Navigator looks great!
My only gripe is that the “snapshot preview” is rather hard to see most of the time, but especially when previewing a snapshot that’s smaller than the current zoom range.

Can you really tell where it is in this picture (thumbnail)?

My suggestion: Instead of showing both the current zoom range and the preview, temporarily remove the zoom pane and only highlight the snapshot area. The current snapshot preview doesn’t have the zoom pane’s handles, so I think the chance of someone mistaking it for the actual zoom pane is not very high anyway.

Good suggestion. Try the new beta5.

Beta5 also has a few bug fixes. If no bugs are reported for this beta, I’ll release 2.25 this weekend.

Follow focus track is nice too, but as expected, it doesn’t work with the embedded editor.
I thought about suggesting the tracks view should scroll to the focus track whenever it gets out of view (unless you manually scroll away from it, of course) – if you didn’t want that, you could just disable follow focus track on the ‘Editor’ editor profile.
…However, this poses another problem, as the event opened in the editor is not necessarily on the focus track at all. 😕

So the best solution I can think of right now would be reworking it to just “Follow Selection” – as in follow whatever is actively selected (track or event)… I think that’d work very well. :-k

The purpose of the “Follow focus track” option, is to link track navigation between the mixer and the tracks region. I think extending it to react to event selection can result in mysterious scrolls, as long as it is possible to select events on other than the focus track.

@Mike G wrote:

– When trying to zoom out past the ends of the current selection It’s harder to zoom out so that you can add more stuff after the end of the current arrangement, much harder than it was with a scroll bar. I will just add the scroll bar back in in my profile but wonder if the default setup could be made better. Can you think of a way of making this work in the navigator in an intuitive way?
The bext idea I can come up with is to allow scrolling of the navigator past the end of the last item in the arrangement.

I’ve enabled dragging the zoom pane beyond the length of the arrangement. I think it works ok.