Reply To: Preview 2.26: Track toolbar & track categories

@Zynewave wrote:

There seem to be a few discrepancies with the “depth” of the group level strips. I’m pretty tired, so I’m not sure what to make of it right now…
Here’s an example picture (thumbnail). On the left is what the actual hierarchy looks like.

Not really a bug. When the parent group track is hidden, I draw the header of the track all the way up to the top, instead of showing the arrow at the actual group level. That’s what happens in the middle part of your screenshot. I don’t know if it would make more sense to show the arrow when it does not point to a parent group :-k

Okay, less sleepy today, so I can try to explain better what struck me as strange here. 😉

If you only show tracks that are at a deeper group level than other tracks, they’re displayed as if there were no tracks above them in the hierarchy in both the mixer and the arrangement. (ex. 1)

At the same time, tracks that are not as many levels down still have a group level strip as wide as the arrangement’s hierarchy is deep. This is the case if you only show a track that is at the top level (directly below the master) – in the mixer, however, it is displayed differently. (ex. 2)

Finally, if you show a track at the deepest, and a track at the highest level (below the master) together, the group level strips are the width/height of the whole hierarchy in both the arrangement and mixer. (ex. 3)

I couldn’t say if this is a problem, or which way it’d be best to display at all times. On one hand, if the group level strip width isn’t always the same, the track controls will start to jump around again when selecting different tags (even on the same track – compare examples 1 and 3). On the other hand, it might save space and look better in some cases, should the group level strips not always be as wide as the hierarchy is deep.

Also in beta6:

Inserting a bus send on a track will automatically add the matching bus return track. Pressing undo once will undo the creation of the bus return track. Pressing undo again will undo the insertion of the bus send.

The return track is not created, though, when you assign the send mapping to an already existing effect track.

Also, when you use the “move track to new group” command, the track created is not assigned a tag. I don’t know if the command will be around after multiple track selection comes around, but here you go anyway.