32 Folder Tracks Video Lecture | Tracktion 5 Tutorial: Master Music Editing - Video & Sound Editing

this video is about folder tracks folder
tracks allow you to store a number of
tracks into a folder so you can collapse
the view they also let you automate the
volume in a way that allows you to do
fades across multiple tracks which I'll
show you in a minute and they also allow
you to solo everything in a track so in
general they give you tools to start to
organize projects as your projects get
bigger and the edit grows to numbers and
numbers of tracks sometimes they're just
convenient to put your drums in a folder
track or maybe all your guitars on a
folder track now to create a folder
track just click on wherever you want
the folder track to be right click and
then select create new folder track like
that and it says folder like this so if
I want to create one for my guitars then
I could just give it a name like that
and then I'll just grab the guitar track
from the header right from where it says
guitar and drag it to the folder track
now as you drag a track this is the look
when you're going to insert it just to
change the track order but when you go
over a folder track you get this solid
color when you drop it then it goes into
the folder track now if I grab the next
one I can put it right here this will be
this will put it right after that one if
I put it here you can see it goes into
the folder track after guitar one let me
just undo that or you can drag it and
drop it right on the track itself
whichever one you drop on winds up being
on top so you can also reorder them
within the folder track now they're in
here I can collapse it using this little
arrow here giving me a cleaner view you
can still hear them
and you can solo everything within the
folder track using the controls on the
folder track itself like this
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now the folder track has a volume
control you can't add additional plugins
but you can control the volume of
everything in the track it's a vca style
meaning it's kind of remotely
controlling the volume there's no audio
going through the folder track it's
really sort of just a header that allows
you to control the volume within it
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and then if you automate that that's how
you create a fade now that could be
really useful so you don't have to go
and edit each individual clip if you
have something like a drum part so I'm
going to show you how to deal with drum
parts next I've got a multitrack drum
part here where I've got kick snare all
the way through the rooms and you might
want to edit these together you might
want to do things but generally you want
to work with them as a group so they're
a perfect thing to use for a folder
track now you could pack them into a
folder track without all that dragging
and dropping just click on the first
drum and then hold down shift click on
the last one and then when you
right-click you have create new folder
track containing when I click that then
it just packs them all into the folder
track I'll click on the folder track
itself rename this just call this drums
so now I've got my drums and I can
collapse them into this view here if I
do that also with my guitar see I get my
mix down to a really really concise view
and it gives me the ability to control
all the drums the entire volume of the
drums with this right here
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so that gives you a really cool way to
work when you've got a lot of tracks
that are related and you want to work
with them together but it gets a little
cooler than that when you enable
automation I'm going to talk a little
more about automation in a coming video
but i'll give you a preview because you
could automate the vca or the volume of
a folder track by just clicking this a
here then you can turn on the automated
vca like this this gives you basically a
volume line for the track then you can
double-click on here to add nodes that
allows you to put in whatever kind of
automation you want so I can create a
shape like this buy something like this
this right here allows me to adjust the
shape of it so i can adjust those nodes
and that allows me to implement a fade
so that's really cool it's really handy
rather than having to draw fades in
across all of these clips now it gets
even cooler than that when you start to
look at editing a lot of times with
multi track drums you need to edit or
create a cut across the entire drum set
you don't want to really disturb any of
these clips you can do that right on the
folder track itself for that matter you
can rearrange the clips here if I grab
this you'll see I can actually move
clips that allows you to rearrange even
up to your entire song using a folder
track so if I want to do a split I can
just come in here say it bar 25 just use
the forward slash key you can see that
put a split right across all of these
then if I wanted to move these bars back
just grab in the header in the folder
track and look I can separate that out
and move all those together the header
gives you the ability to do all the
normal things you do it like a slip edit
or you can do trimming like this across
all of those tracks so that's how folder
tracks work in traction 5 thanks for
watching