Customizing the Console view

There are various ways you can customize the Console view to suit your needs and to save screen space, including:

Show/hide specific channel strip types, such as audio tracks, MIDI tracks, Instrument tracks, buses and hardware outputs (see To show/hide specific channel strip types).

Show/hide specific tracks, buses and hardware outputs (see To show/hide specific tracks, buses and hardware outputs).

Show/hide muted, archived or frozen channel strips (see To show/hide muted, archived or frozen channel strips).

Show/hide modules, such as volume faders, meters, input and output controls, etc. (see To show/hide modules).

Show wide or narrow channel strips (see To set the width of channel strips).

Resize the Track, Bus and Hardware Output panes (see To resize the Track, Bus and Hardware Output panes).

To show/hide specific channel strip types

Click the Strips menu in the Console view and choose the desired channel strips.

To reorder channel strips

To move a strip, hold down the ALT key, then click an empty area in the strip and drag the strip to the desired location.

To show/hide specific tracks, buses and hardware outputs

Do one of the following:

Click the Strips menu, choose Track Manager to open the Track Manager dialog box, then select the tracks you want to show.

Right-click a channel strip and choose Hide Track or Hide Bus on the pop-up menu.

To show/hide muted, archived or frozen channel strips

Click the Strips menu in the Console view and choose Muted, Archived or Frozen.

To show/hide modules

Click the Modules menu in the Console view and choose the desired module.

Figure 654. Console view Modules menu.

To set the width of channel strips

Channel strips can be either wide or narrow. By showing narrow channel strips, you can show more tracks, buses and hardware outputs simultaneously in the Console view.

To set all channel strips to wide mode, click the Strips menu and choose Widen All Strips.

To set all channel strips to narrow mode, click the Strips menu and choose Narrow All Strips.

To toggle an individual channel strip between wide and narrow mode, right-click the channel strip and choose Narrow Strip on the pop-up menu.

In Narrow mode, the following channel strip controls are hidden.

 

Table 103. Hidden channel strip controls in Narrow mode  

Module	Hidden controls in narrow channel strips
Input Gain	Input Pan
ProChannel	Global input meter
Sends/Bank/Patch	Send Pan
MSR	Phase Invert, Mono/Stereo Interleave, Read Automation and Write Automation
Volume	dB scale

Figure 655. You can show all or individual channel strips in Narrow mode in order to see more channel strips simultaneously.

To resize the Track, Bus and Hardware Output panes

Drag the vertical splitter bars to the left or right. The splitter bars snap to channel strip boundaries.

Figure 656. Drag the vertical splitter bars to resize the Track, Bus and Hardware Output panes.

A. Pane splitter bars

 

Tip: To automatically left-align all channel strips, make sure the Console view has focus, then press the F key.

See:

Using the Console view

The Console view interface

Console view menu

Console view