Locking a Specific Track's Height?

[Sparky1]

Hi there.

Is it possible to lock the height of specific tracks?

Using PT Studio 2022.10.0 on Mojave

Thanks,


Sparky

[Sardi]

As in the height view? Not that I’m aware of.

But, each track can be a different height, so unless your accidentally triggering a shortcut to change the height of all tracks, there’s probably no real need to lock it.


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[Ben Jenssen]

Not possible. You can opt-click a trackname to select all tracks, cmd-click tracks to deselect them, and change height of the selected tracks while holding opt-shift - none of the deselected tracks will change height.

[danyg]

yes, kind of... I do it with memory locations and window configuration

[its2loud]

There’s also Zoom Toggle

[DetroitT]

+1 for window configs.
Usually short term for A/B editing (Melodyne or not)
Long term for window arrangements.

[Sparky1]

Originally Posted by danyg

yes, kind of... I do it with memory locations and window configuration

This is an interesting idea…🤔

Sparky

[Sparky1]

Originally Posted by Sardi

As in the height view? Not that I’m aware of.

But, each track can be a different height, so unless your accidentally triggering a shortcut to change the height of all tracks, there’s probably no real need to lock it.


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The reason I’d like to lock individual tracks is while mixing - I often decide certain tracks make the whole song too busy or the track just doesn’t work…

I’ve started inactivating those tracks and putting them in micro mode - but still like them to be visible so I don’t completely forget about them in case I want to come back to them and/or maybe use parts of these tracks…

Often I’ll make various other tracks larger while working on them - then return them all to small. The inactive tracks will resize to the same size as all the ones I’m using - taking up real estate

Sparky…

[Sardi]

Originally Posted by Sparky1

Often I’ll make various other tracks larger while working on them - then return them all to small. The inactive tracks will resize to the same size as all the ones I’m using - taking up real estate

If you use the correct shortcuts (like Ben pointed out) that will not happen.

I can see locking would be useful in your circumstance, but there are ways to achieve what you’re after and as mentioned, track heights unfortunately can’t be locked.


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[Sparky1]

Originally Posted by danyg

yes, kind of... I do it with memory locations and window configuration

Just tried this - and it's absolutely perfect.

1 click, and I'm back to having all the tracks return to the various heights I had previously...

Thank you danyg for the excellent suggestion!

Sparky