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title: Track and Bus Groups
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<p> Tracks and busses can be put into groups. The members of a group can be set to share various settings, which can be useful for managing tracks which are closely related to each other. Examples might include tracks that contain multiple-microphone recordings of a single source (an acoustic guitar, perhaps, or a drum-kit).</p>
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<p>You can put tracks and busses into groups in various ways. In the editor window, a track's controls might look like these:</p>
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<p><img src="/ardour/manual/html/screenshots/track-in-group.png" alt="track headers for a group"></p>
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<p> The green tab to the left of the track header indicates that this track is in a group called ‘Fred’. These tabs can be dragged in the editor window to add to or remove tracks from groups. </p>
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<h2>Creating New Groups</h2>
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<p>There are several ways to create track/bus groups:</p>
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<p>Context-click on the group tab and use one of the "Create..." options there. You can create a group with no members, or one that starts with the currently selected tracks, or record-enabled tracks, or soloed tracks as it members.</p>
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<p>Alternatively, clicking the ‘g’ button on a track header opens a menu which gives a list of the available groups; selecting one of these groups will add the track or bus to that group. This menu also allows a new group to be created.</p>
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<p>Finally, the Groups tab of the <a href="/ardours-interface/introducing-the-editor-window/editor-lists">Editor Lists</a> or the Mixer Window has a "+" button at the bottom of the list that can be clicked upon to create a new group.</p>
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<h2>Removing Groups</h2>
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<p>Context-click on a group tab and select <code>Remove Group</code> from the menu. Removing a group does <strong>not</strong> remove the members of a group.</p>
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<p>You can also remove groups by selecting them in the Groups tab of the <a href="/ardours-interface/introducing-the-editor-window/editor-lists">Editor Lists</a> or Mixer Window and then pressing the "-" button at the bottom of the list.</p>
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<h2>Adding/Removing Tracks and Busses to a Group</h2>
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<p>Clicking the ‘g’ button opens a menu which gives a list of the available groups; selecting one of these groups will add the track or bus to that group. Selecting "No Group" will remove it. </p>
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<p>You can also drag a group tab to add or remove tracks from the group.</p>
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<h2>Activating/Deactivating Groups via the group tab</h2>
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<p>Clicking on a group tab will toggle the group between being active and inactive. An inactive group will have no effect when editing its members. An active group will share 1 or more properties across its members. Tabs for disabled groups are coloured grey.</p>
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<h2>Modifying Group Properties</h2>
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<p>The properties of a group can be edited by right-clicking on its tab and choosing Edit Group…. This will open the track/bus group dialogue, which is also used when creating new groups:</p>
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<p><img src="/ardour/manual/html/screenshots/route-group-dialogue.png" alt="the track/bus group dialog"></p>
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<h3>Group Color</h3>
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<p>Clicking on the color selector button allows the group's colour can be changed. This affects the colour of the group's tab in the editor and mixer windows. The color does <strong>not</strong> affect the color of the group members unless you also enable the shared <code>Color</code> property. </p>
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<p>Following these options are a list of the things that the members of the group can share. </p>
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<h3>Shared Properties</h3>
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<p><code>Gain</code> means that the track faders will be synced to always have the same value; ‘Relative’ means that the gain changes are applied relative to each member's current value. If, for example, there are two tracks in a group with relative gain sharing, and their faders are set to -3dB and -1dB, a change of the first track to a gain of -6dB will result in the second track having a gain of -4dB (so that the difference in gains is the same).</p>
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<p><code>Muting</code>, <code>soloing</code>, <code>record enable</code>, <code>route active state</code>, <code>colour</code> and <code>monitoring</code> are all straightforward; they simply mean that all member tracks or busses will share the same settings in these respects. See <a href="/working-with-tracks">Working With Tracks</a> for more on these properties.</p>
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<p><code>Selection</code> means that if a region is selected or deselected on one constituent track, corresponding regions on other member tracks will be similarly selected. Corresponding regions are those that are at the same position and have the same length. Since region editing operations are applied to all currently selected regions, this is the way to make edits apply across all tracks in the group. </p>
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<h3>Group Tab Context Menu</h3>
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<p>Context-clicking on the group tab offers a further menu of group-related actions. </p>
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<dl class="wide-table">
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<dt>Create a New Group</dt>
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<dd>create a new group</dd>
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<dt>Create New Group from...</dt>
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<dd> create a new group and automatically add ...
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<dl class="narrower-table">
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<dt>Selected</dt>
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<dd>all currently selected tracks and busses</dd>
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<dt>Rec-enabled</dt>
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<dd>all currently record-enabled tracks</dd>
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<dt>Soloed</dt>
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<dd>all currently soloed tracks and busses</dd>
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</dl>
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</dd>
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<dt>Collect Group</dt>
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<dd>moves all the member tracks so that they are together in the editor window</dd>
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<dt>Remove Group</dt>
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<dd>removes the group (and only the group, not its members).</dd>
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<dt>Add New Subgroup Bus</dt>
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<dd> creates a bus (giving it the name of the group) and connects the output of each member to the new bus.
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</dd>
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<dt>Add New Aux Bus</dt>
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<dd>adds a bus and gives each member a send to that bus. There are two options for this, specifying whether the sends should be placed pre- or post-fader.</dd>
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<dt>Fit to Window</dt>
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<dd> will zoom the member tracks so that they fill the editor window.</dd>
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<dt>Enable All Groups</dt>
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<dd>makes all group active, including any hidden groups.</dd>
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<dt>Disable All Groups</dt>
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<dd>makes all groups inactive, including any hidden groups.</dd>
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</dl>
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<p> </p>
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