Solved "Apply track preset" macro doesn't work as intended - am I wrong?

[boog]

I love track presets! One thing I've noticed, though, is that they're not entirely consistent. If you use 'Apply Track Preset' on an existing track instead of adding a new one via 'Load Track Preset', it doesn’t correctly set the color and output. If that worked properly, it would be incredibly powerful!

Imagine being able to add tracks on the fly during the recording process, and then during the mixing stage, simply apply the appropriate preset to define what kind of track it should be. You could have all your busses set up in a template, and applying a track preset would automatically set the correct output, color, and load all the plugins.

As it stands, it works partially, but I still have to manually assign the color and output. Or am I missing something? Is there a way to make 'Apply Track Preset' behave the same way as 'Load Track Preset'?

 

[Lukas]

The reason is that "Apply Track Preset" is a console command (not a macro, by the way - little nitpicking) so it works only for the channel part of a track. You can see that when you try to drag a track preset onto a track: You can't. You can only drag it onto a channel (instrument or audio). But you're right, the routing (output) is not recalled when applying track presets.

For setting the color and or routing a channel to a bus, you need to do that with a macro (and for the bus routing you would need something like the Scoring Tools add-on).

 

[boog]

Ah thanks! I was under the intention that "apply" should work exactly as "load" but on existing tracks - that explains it. I have bought your scoring extensions to do the routing - thanks for the hint

 

[Lukas]

Let me know if you like it and if it does what you want.

 

[boog]

Yes it does what I want - now my workflow is finally complete There's some pretty cool other tools in there, too, thanks!

 

[Lukas]

Awesome - glad you like it