Stopping unused tracks showing in Meter Bridge

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Re: Stopping unused tracks showing in Meter Bridge

Post by FMiguelez »

I totally agree this window could use a track selector, or a way to only include used and active tracks.

Since I always have hundreds of tracks and busses, I don't even bother with this window. I had forgotten all about it.

I'll start using it when it makes sense, i.e., the moment we can decide exactly what we want to see and nothing more.
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Re: Stopping unused tracks showing in Meter Bridge

Post by bayswater »

It needs more than a track selector because it has to cover the main ins and outs and the internal busses.

I have it at the side of my startup template showing the main interface ins and outs. It's useful to see what sort of levels are happening, but as the project progresses, it becomes less useful and more awkward to manage.
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Re: Stopping unused tracks showing in Meter Bridge

Post by Shooshie »

Four years and counting... maybe in another couple years MOTU will see this thread and give us a track selector for the Meter Bridge. I'm going to add another request: allow us to drag meters anywhere we want, so that we can group certain meters we want to watch together without having to move the tracks. Maybe give us a preference for it, like that of the Mixing Board, where tracks match the order of the Tracks Window if checked, but allow random reordering if not checked.
And that's got to be separate from the Mixing Board preference. I can see re-ordering the Meter Bridge often, and I wouldn't want the tracks to move when I do that.

This thread started in 2012. MOTU, suppose by 2016 we could have something like this?


Oh... yeah... it IS 2016. Ok... how about 2017? Or, 2016 would be fine, too. Just put it on the to-do list, ok?

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