gravelfreeman
commented
1 month ago Update. While doing my setup I didn't like the workaround I shared in my initial issue above.
To overcome the issue that not all scenes have the same number of audio tracks with your method of using the Fader Bank and Channel buttons to hide the audio tracks we don't want, I did the following.
I looked at all my scenes and figured out that I needed to create empty (no media) Media sources in my scenes so that every have at least 7 audio tracks in total that I want to hide. The names are blank spaces " ", " ", ", " ", which are one if not the first ANSI chars so you'll be sure that those tracks are first in the mixer.
Then setting Assignment at #8 on the X-Touch (by pressing the Channel button). Bingo! Now my Mackie controller is only showing the tracks I actually want to see.
One thing though is that there seem to be a delay when changing scenes and the tracks you don't want to see will sometimes appear for a second and dissapear. This is actually another issue that I was planning on opening as well.
I still hope to find a hack so that hidden state is taken in consideration. I don't like all that overhead in my scenes but the positives are still bigger than the negatives in the end. Again, I'd keep this issue open until one day it gets resolved.
normen
I think we should leave this issue open to track ideas and maybe someone will find and idea to hack this in some way.
From the documentation:
The idea of hiding by pressing Channel Right button isn't practical since I don't have the same number of audio sources per scene depending on the number of speakers on screen.
In the meantime another workaround is to name your channel after the Z letter with a special character.
Here's a list of the characters that come immediately after "Z" in the ASCII table;
Hope we find a way around!