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Feature Request: Group Tracks in Mixer

Imagine being able to pull down several faders at once? Of course, it would (most likely) mean moving tracks around (in order to assign to a group) would need to be possible. Track groups would also need to be persisted in the project's config file.

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If you look closely, Qtractor already comes with that feature.

Qtractor buses are not really traditional buses, but groups.

Group: Tracks that share the same input and output.
Bus: Channel with input and output where signals can be sent.

The closest thing to a traditional bus in Qtractor is using inserts in a track.

If you want a group, create a bus, that is your group. Assign the tracks you want to that bus.

This is certainly interesting. Playing it out though, I'm not sure I really get it. Let's break things down to the lowest common denominator using 1 instrument.

  1. Piano Track has audio sent to a bus named Piano.
  2. A bus is created named Instruments
  3. How would the signal from Piano bus be sent to the Instruments bus?

Unless what you're advocating here is eliminating step 1?

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Q. How would the signal from Piano bus be sent to the Instruments bus?

A. insert an Aux-Send on the Piano bus and direct it to the Instruments bus.
nb. the later needs to be _after_ the former in the bus listing order.

I'll mess with this in order to get a sense of how it feels. Very interesting. I'm assuming that aux send would be set to 100%

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the Aux-Send insert has this single "Send Gain" parameter, where a value of 1.0 means 100% alright!

you may wish to tweak it all the way from 0.0 to 4.0 ;)

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