ARTIST MIX: How do I stop folder tracks showing up on faders

[amathie]

Sorry for a basic question but I haven't been able to work it out.

I've just started using non-routing Folders to organise the tracks in a session. They show up by default on the Artist Mix hardware faders.

Is there some way of preventing them from doing this. I seem to remember that there was a dialog box which gave you the option of excluding various types of tracks (MIDI, Auxs etc) but that might have been my imagination!

Any ideas much appreciated.

PS Just to clarify, I want the audio tracks contained within the folder to be displayed when "a fader slot is defined as "auto assigned" but I don't want the actual containing folder to show up and take up a precious fader.

[albee1952]

Hmmm, can you move these basic folder tracks around independently of their "child" tracks? If you can, you could move them all to the far right(or left) of the MIX window. Alternately, can you hide them without affecting the rest of the tracks? If none of that works, hopefully someone else has some ideas

[EddieJones]

One workflow for this is to close all the folders. Then double tap the Sel button to reveal the tracks in that folder. Work on them and then close the folder again and open another. Currently there is no way to hide these from the surface unless you make Inactive or hidden in PT...but then you can't get to the tracks in them.

[amathie]

Originally Posted by EddieJones

One workflow for this is to close all the folders. Then double tap the Sel button to reveal the tracks in that folder. Work on them and then close the folder again and open another. Currently there is no way to hide these from the surface unless you make Inactive or hidden in PT...but then you can't get to the tracks in them.

Yes, that seems to work, although I haven't been able to get the contained tracks to reveal themselves when double tapping the Select button (I'll give that another go); but I can open the folder from the Pro Tools interface with a simple mouse click.

[amathie]

Originally Posted by EddieJones

One workflow for this is to close all the folders. Then double tap the Sel button to reveal the tracks in that folder. Work on them and then close the folder again and open another. Currently there is no way to hide these from the surface unless you make Inactive or hidden in PT...but then you can't get to the tracks in them.

Thanks for the suggestion. I've been trying out the above method which I'm quite liking. I start with just four closed folder tracks occupying the first four left hand faders (so far very neat and in control) and then open one of the folders so that the contained tracks spill out on to the faders.

Just one bit of advice needed here. I know that by double tapping the Sel button, that folder track opens but then how do I close the folder to get back to where I started with the four closed folders visible. On double tapping the Set button, the folder track on the hardware surface is overwritten by the 1st track within the folder. Is there a button or command on the Artist Mix to close the folder? I can do it with a mouse click on the Pro Tools GUI but it would be nice if there was a hardware option.

[its2loud]

In EuControl setting, check the preference for Assign VCA Master/Folder track to S1/S3/Artist.

This will keep the master folder track on one of the faders on the surface. Double press Sel on this fader and you will unspill. Keep in mind that you will lose a fader space for your unspilled tracks. If your using Avid Control on a tablet, you can also unspill by tapping the folder in Avid Control.

See pics.

[BScout]

Depending on your settings, the folder track, when open, moves to a different fader. You double tap on that folder track SEL and it closes the folder again and returns to all closed folder.
In Single-Master Mode, that folder track goes to the far right track or the Dock fader (depending on the setting in Eucontrol > Preferences tab)

[EddieJones]

Look on the Preferences tab in EuControl/ VCA/Folder Spill......Single Master Mode. Set to S1/S3/Artist (Not Dock)

[amathie]

No they won't acutally. The child tracks stay next to the containing folder when the folder is open.

[priorytools]

I would suggest you move all tracks out of the folders, delete the folders and carry on as you did before folders were introduced to Tools.


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