Actually, it is quite practical. Any tracks that need to be selected for editing are worth grouping, after which, one doesn't have to go through the process of reselecting tracks and can enable or disable with keystrokes alone. Further, it's possible to additionally hide or show the tracks with the same keystrokes—yet another way of working in Pro Tools.
Slau On Mar 16, 2012, at 4:39 PM, Sonar Switcher wrote: > david, I had the same problem and Chuck was the one to get it to work. > I understand Slau's idea but it's not very practical if you have to > move fast. I can have 40 tracks loaded and thanks to Chuck select any > of them in seconds for example track 1-6-10-20-36 can be selected > while leaving the others untouched without hiding, grouping etc. Use > an actual mouse, go to the track table, interact with it, click the > mouse or VO spacebar on the first track then just move through the > table and command click the actual mouse on each track you want to > select. The biggest prob I had at the beginning was not understanding > you need a mouse and not VO spacebar for this. Chuck, the answer to > not needing sighted help for the gray bar is to use the VO resize > window command until you are sure the mouse is always where you need > it to be. In my case I've had to resize different ways for different > sessions because of too many tracks. Usually I get it in 2 or three > tries of resizing. You also need the true mouse to do other things > like solo safe and general commands that won't work with VO and mouse > modifier keys. > > David Eagle wrote: >> Hi, I have just listened to Kevin's tutorial on ProTools. He talks >> about selecting tracks. I am finding it a bit of a challenge. I am in >> the tracks table. I can select one track with VO space, but pressing >> Shift and semi-colon or Shift and P does not select the next track. >> Also, Kevin mentions not being able to select consecutive tracks. He >> mentions being able to do this using a control surface but not with >> the keyboard. Is there anyway to select - say - track 3, 5 and 7 with >> the keyboard. It's a shame that PT haven't built it into the control >> click menu for the track. It would be so easy to do. >> >> Any thoughts would be much appreciated. >> >> >> -- >> http://www.davideagle.co.uk
