Creating and Controlling Track Groups

AbleSet 2.8 introduces support for creating and controlling track groups. These track groups can consist of multiple tracks and can be muted or soloed on the fly from the web app or via OSC.

If you have tracks named Click or containing +CLICK, those are automatically added to a "Click" group. To create other groups, add +G: or +GROUP: followed by the name of the group you'd like the track to belong to to the track's name, for example: +G:VOX.

Please note that the group name must be written in uppercase and can only contain letters, digits, and dashes.

Tracks can belong to multiple groups, so you could assign a track both to a VOX and to a BACKINGS group (e.g. Vox 1 +G:VOX +G:BACKINGS), while another track is assigned to a BASS and the same BACKINGS group (e.g. Synth Bass +G:BASS +G:BACKINGS). This allows you, for example, to mute both tracks at once using the BACKINGS group while still being able to mute them individually using their own groups.

The +NEVERMUTE Flag

Some tracks should never be muted – for example, if they output a control signal to a redundant audio interface. By adding the +NEVERMUTE or +NM flag to the name of those tracks, AbleSet ensures that they will always be audible. When you solo a track group, all +NEVERMUTE tracks are soloed as well.