Track Folding

You can show, hide, or invert tracks that are displayed in the Project window event display. This allows you to divide the project into several parts by creating several folder tracks for the different project elements and showing/hiding their contents by selecting a menu function or using a key command. You can also fold in automation tracks this way.

To open the Track Folding menu, select Project > Track Folding.

The following options are available:

Toggle Selected Track: Reverses the fold state of the selected track.
Fold Tracks: Folds in all open folder tracks in the Project window.

Note
The behavior of this function depends on the Deep Track Folding setting in the Preferences dialog.
Unfold Tracks: Unfolds all folder tracks in the Project window.

Note
The behavior of this function depends on the Deep Track Folding setting in the Preferences dialog.
Flip Fold States: Flips the fold states of the tracks in the Project window. This means that all tracks that were folded in will be unfolded and all unfolded tracks will be folded in, respectively.
Move Selected Tracks to New Folder: Moves all selected tracks to the folder track. This menu option is available if at least one folder track is available.

Note

You can assign key commands for these menu options in the Key Commands dialog in the Project category.

The following option also affects the track folding behavior:

Deep Track Folding

You can activate this option in the Preferences dialog (Editing—Project & MixConsole page).

If this option is activated, any folding settings that you make on the Track Folding submenu of the Project menu also affect the subelements of the tracks. For example, if you fold in a folder track that contains 10 audio tracks, of which 5 have several open automation tracks, all these audio tracks within the folder track will also be folded in.