"Move Selected Tracks to be Together" Protocol

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westlake79
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"Move Selected Tracks to be Together" Protocol

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I'm wondering how to predict which direction the tracks will be moved.

If I select a track at the top of my template, and select one at the bottom, click "move track to be together" - sometimes the top track will move down to the bottom. Other times the bottom track will move up to the top track.

Is there any way to control this? I have not been able to figure out why it decides to do either one, only that it happens consistently in different chunks. Some move up, some move down.

Thanks in advance!
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Re: "Move Selected Tracks to be Together" Protocol

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I move tracks manually so that I never have to bother with this. A little time consuming? Yes but they always behave the way I do it.
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Re: "Move Selected Tracks to be Together" Protocol

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Moving manually is what I'm doing now, but with such large template it becomes tedious if you have to load in an old file and move many tracks.

There has to be a rhyme/reason for which direction the 'Move Selected Tracks To Be Together' decides to move things.
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Re: "Move Selected Tracks to be Together" Protocol

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You can combine it with the Move Selected Tracks commands at least.
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Re: "Move Selected Tracks to be Together" Protocol

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I'm trying to use the "move selected tracks together to top" command, but if you have your tracks in folders, it just moves whatever you picked to the top of the folder, or does nothing all if you select all the tracks in that folder, but not to the tops of the entire tracks list.

Is there some trick or workaround to doing this?

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