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"By grouping clips, you can select and edit an entire group of clips by simply selecting or editing any group member."

I am finding this isn't true. After creating a group, the selection, mute, solo, etc. remains track-by-track, as if they weren't grouped.

Am I missing something?  I record 10-track drum takes, and though my take lanes are grouped, as set in prefs, they behave no differently and I have to solo each of the 10 tracks one-by-one to hear my different takes. Same when not using take lanes. I was hoping the grouping feature would remove this drudgery... what's the solution? Folders?

 

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Like amberwolf said look at group the solo buttons. Folders are great. If you’re not using them, then you’re missing out on a big feature. With folders, you can solo and mute the entire set of tracks in the folder with one click. I’m not sure exactly what you’re doing. If you explain a little more detail, we might even better help. 

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On 2/23/2025 at 1:12 AM, Amberwolf said:

If you want the solo for 10 tracks to respond together, you have to group the solo buttons themselves. 

Thanks everyone for the tips. Folders are definitely a great solution I got into shortly after my post, but, it means my console remains cluttered with 10 track strips for each take rather than just one set when I use take lanes. I don't get why grouping take lane clips doesn't group their function buttons as well... you'd think, right?

 I can't find any way to group solo buttons, either on the take lanes or on their parent tracks. (they're not selectable, they're just switches) I don't think that is possible. The only group command I can find is in the clips menu "create clip selection group" but this is greyed out.  I can find no settings related to groups or their behavior in preferences. Bottom line is the grouping function  just doesn't seem to work as advertised: an efficient way to review different takes in multi-track take lanes.

Cheers.

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6 hours ago, Imre de Jonge said:

I don't get why grouping clips doesn't group their function buttons as well... you'd think, right?

lets say you group some of the clips on a track in one group and some of them in a different one, because you need to be able to edit them separately.   which of those groups should the track controls respond to?  

if you muted the track to mute one group, the ohter is also muted but you want to hear those....

that's one of many examples why clip grouping "has" to be separate from track control grouping. 

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