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[TRACK ATTENTION] - Less Obvious Methods

(1) Solo Focus was a popular option for folks with the ICON series consoles. S4/S6 has this capability as well. Enable Settings > User > Attention Track of Most Recently Solo to automatically Attention a track once it has been soloed. This can be even more interesting when you start to include VCA Masters and (coming soon) Folder Tracks and include the preference for Automatic Spill of Attentioned VCA -> which could place the group members of that Soloed VCA into the Spill Zone of your choice.

(2) Nudging the Attentioned Track can be handy if you have a group of similar elements and simply want to move to a track in either direction. Enable under Settings > User > Attention Most Recently Clicked DAW Area: Edit Selection Move Up/Down. If Command Focus Mode is enabled in Pro Tools - simply use the P and ; keys to Attention the track above or below your currently selected track. Alternatively, hold Command (Fader module) while using the Previous and Next switches on the transport above the FF REW buttons to Nudge the Attention. Certainly if this workflow became more important to your daily work - you could easily remove the necessity for the (Command) modifier.

(3) Enable the option under Settings > User > Attention Track of Most Recently Selected Surface Function to automatically Attention a track just after you choose to change its function view (Pan, Send, EQ, Dyn, etc.) - either from the Process Module on S6 - or from the middle section of the Channelstrip Module for S4. This saves you the extra step of having to first Attention, choose EQ, then perform the tweak. Optionally tick the box under Settings > User > Auto Expand Functions > EQ if you find yourself doing a lot of local expanded EQ adjusting. So - pressing EQ on a given channel will now trigger Attention then present the EQ parameters in an expanded view


Jeff