Help with Macro - New track & record enable

[elavd]

Hello everybody! This is my 1st post here
I am using Studio One for about 8 months now, and I would like your help for a macro:
I want to create a macro that will do the following when I press my selected shortcut:

1. disable/disarm the recording option for all enabled tracks
2. create a new track
3. enable the record (R) for this new track

Also a newbie question: Since I have migrated from Cakewalk, I was used to pan the tracks in the tree view, without having to open the Mixer, or (in the case of S1) to open the Inspector on the side. I just want, apart from volume, to see the panning too.
Is there an option that enables that in the track view or is this impossible?

Thank you in advance!
Elias

 

[Vocalpoint]

Hmm.

My Studio One does this - with no macros. I add 16 tracks to a new project - none are record enabled.

Then if I "select" (with the mouse) Track 1 - it is armed and goes right into Record when I hit R on the keyboard

Once I am done with Track 1 and then move over to Track 2 (select with mouse) - Track 1 is no longer enabled and Track 2 is ready to go.

No macros needed.

You can set these under Options.

And as far as "panning" goes - Studio One draws a very strict line on what a Track is vs what a "channel" is (mixer).

Panning is done in the mixer. And only the mixer.

VP

 

[elavd]

Hmm.

My Studio One does this - with no macros. I add 16 tracks to a new project - none are record enabled.

Then if I "select" (with the mouse) Track 1 - it is armed and goes right into Record when I hit R on the keyboard

Once I am done with Track 1 and then move over to Track 2 (select with mouse) - Track 1 is no longer enabled and Track 2 is ready to go.

No macros needed.

Thank you for your answer.
But I need a macro that will work with s keyboard shortcut, and without mouse clicking involved, because in my home studio I stay away of my pc in order to record myself and I want to create new tracks, ready for recording in the most efficient and quickest way possible.

 

[Vocalpoint]

Thank you for your answer.
But I need a macro that will work with s keyboard shortcut, and without mouse clicking involved, because

Just tested this here - and I can cycle back between tracks - with no mouse - just using Up/Down arrows and as long as I can get the first track selected - they all activate/deactivate as selected.

in my home studio I stay away of my pc in order to record myself and I want to create new tracks, ready for recording in the most efficient and quickest way possible.

How - exactly - or what exactly - do you work "on" for hardware - where you stay away from the PC?

That said - there are tons of macro examples out there (YouTube etc) - you will need to dive in and build one out for yourself.

Start here

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VP

 

[elavd]

Thank you!

 

[elavd]

How - exactly - or what exactly - do you work "on" for hardware - where you stay away from the PC?

I record acoustic and classical guitar so the way I set my microphones makes me stay in some distance from my desk. So I have a USB cable extension, so I bring only the keyboard close to me and I use shortcuts in order to work without reaching the mouse.

 

[Vocalpoint]

I record acoustic and classical guitar so the way I set my microphones makes me stay in some distance from my desk. So I have a USB cable extension, so I bring only the keyboard close to me and I use shortcuts in order to work without reaching the mouse.

In that case - you will really need to built out a very well tested set of keyboard shortcuts.

Over here - it is "highlight" a track (which requires my eyes and a mouse) and then I simply hit R (Record).

But even then - this would not work from 20 feet away. You still need to set focus to specific UI elements before you can do anything - regardless of how good your macros might be.

Studio One - does not set focus to anything on screen by itself when starting a new track to my knowledge.

VP