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Old 09-04-2022, 06:31 AM   #1
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Default Re-arrange tracks in mixer like in Cubase?

Hi,

Saw this video and I think it's a neat little feature (fast forward to 4.21). Is there a script that can to this? "move selected tracks to the right in mixer".

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Old 09-05-2022, 02:07 AM   #2
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I think that the only things you can do are "Group folders to the left" and "Group tracks that have receives to the left". I don't find those options very practical myself, but I guess it could be for some.

I would welcome the ability to snap tracks to either the left, right or middle of the mixer, although I don't know if I would use it that much.
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Old 09-05-2022, 03:57 AM   #3
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yes, having all my Busses snapped to the right would be great. I use this in cubase all the time. I usually have the lead vocal track snapped to the left so it's always visible at the left side of the mixer and the master busses always on the right when mixing, the rest scroll as normal.



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Old 09-05-2022, 07:32 AM   #4
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Reaper has the action to place the master track to the right of the mixer, so maybe the devs could add the possibility for doing the same with any selected tracks?

The actions for placing folder tracks and tracks with receives to the left just doesn't work very well for most people's workflows. I use folders both like they are busses and for organizing, and I also place aux send tracks inside these folders for my reverbs and parallel compression etc. If I then use any of the "group to the left" actions my projects just become a mess.

Also, when you have the master track shown to the right of the mixer it's always shown there like an overlay no matter if you have scrolled all the way to the left or to the right in the mixer. If you use the "group folders to the left" or "group tracks with receives to the left" they still disappear from the screen when you scroll all the way to the right in the mixer (assuming there are too many tracks in the mixer to show them all at the same time).


I don't think this is something that you can change with a script so I'm guessing that only the Cockos devs can do something about this. Would be great if it is something that you can change yourself through a script or theme modifications though
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Reaper has the action to place the master track to the right of the mixer
Then it shouldn't be that hard to add this...I hope
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yes, having all my Busses snapped to the right would be great. I use this in cubase all the time.
Have Cubase this feature for along time or is it new? I would love to have this flexibility. Might forward this to "...Request Forum"
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Old 09-06-2022, 12:07 AM   #7
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Have Cubase this feature for along time or is it new? I would love to have this flexibility. Might forward this to "...Request Forum"
Since version 1.0 of Cubase, you can quickly configure various mixer
views with a mouse click in such a way that you either only see
instrument, audio, group or send tracks, or that all instrument, audio,
group or send tracks appear on a certain side - i.e. left or right.

In principle, this is not possible in Reaper in this simplicity. The reason
is: Reaper only knows one type of track, a generalized track: When you
create a track in Reaper, it can be a midi track, an audio track or even
a video track.

It's different in Cubase: As soon as you add a new track, you'll be
asked what kind of track it should be: Audio? midi instrument? Midi?
groups? Send? This means that tracks are classified right at the
beginning. And after this classification, they can then also be arranged
or hidden in the mixer view.

Reaper does not perform such a classification - and Reaper's tracks
can only be roughly distinguished by the fact that they have certain
routing characteristics - i.e. Sends or Receives. Therefore a transfer
of the mixer arrangement that Cubase has to Reaper is not possible.

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With Reaper, however, there is another method for arranging tracks in
the mixer: The "Track Views": You can define 10 track views, save them
and call them up with a mouse click. So you can put together 10
different mixer views and call them up again and again when needed.

Unfortunately, these track views are pretty buggy, so it would be good to
go along with this suggestion: Track-views have a serious issue.

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