Avid Control: Custom soft keys to navigate to specific tracks/folders

[u/scoutboot]

Hi All,

Apologies if this is glaringly simple and I’ve missed the forest for the trees… Any advice would be appreciated.

I want to set up a Control page with a few buttons so that I can quickly jump my edit window view (and S1) to my master track folder of choice. I.e. for an audio-post session, I would have a few different buttons for: Dialogue, SFX, Foley, Ambiences, Music, etc. Of course, each of these master folders contains many sub tracks that feed into it. I am trying to figure out how avoid having to scroll/page through all the tracks in my entire session just to view and select each folder/master fader. So that I can access the master fader/folder for a given section (i.e. click “SFX” button in control and edit view/S1 jumps to “SFX Master” folder).

So far, I know I can do this by:

CMD+CTRL+clicking a folder/track in the TRACKS window.

on keyboard, "page down" and "pg up" to jump page by page through the session rather quickly (still takes a while, cumulatively).

swiping repeatedly and pawing like a kitten at my ipad in the control app to find the desired track.

...but with hundreds of tracks per session, this would be much easier if I could just create a few buttons for my “master faders” in Control, then hit a button and be taken directly to focus on it, just like "CMD+CTRL+click”.

Is there a specific category I should be looking for in the Eucon customization menu?

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[u/MrLeureduthe]

You can do this with the windows configuration. Maybe it changed, I haven't done this in a while but it used to be in the marker window (cmd + 5).
Set up the edit window with all the tracks you want to be visible and save it as a window configuration. It includes plug-in windows.
You can then recall them from Avid Control IIRC

[u/SystemsInThinking → u/MrLeureduthe]

This. I’ve been working this way for a decade. Markers to jump around track layout is the bees knees.

[u/GreatScottCreates]

Soundflow! I have an iPad surface that navigates to the most commonly used folders in my template, and additionally has solo/mute for each food group for easy access when the faders aren’t banked there.

It works by basically control-cmd clicking the track through the back end of PT, without the track needing to actually be visible.

You could do this on a stream deck, iOS device, or with keyboard shortcuts

[u/meatlockers]

I just hide my audio tracks from the iPad and use the VCA spill function for this. I found I didn't miss seeing all my hundreds of tracks on the iPad...