How to Collapse Tracks in Arrange Window?

Question

I've been searching this and some other forums, and have a feeling I'm outta luck, but figured I should post a question here before writing up another Feature Request...
Separate from the Hide Track function (which isn't quite what I'm wanting), and separate from creating region-based Folders (which I've only just begun to explore), is there no way to simply designate groups of Tracks in the Arrange window, and then be able to collapse or reveal that particular group with a single click -- in the same way that a folder's contents can be collapsed or revealed in Finder list view?
I'm currently building a Logic project which draws on bits and pieces from 3-4 dozen .aif files, each of which I'm dragging onto a separate Track, and then on each Track am splitting the content into multiple Regions. I'm using color-coding of those individual Regions, along with text labelling, to help distinguish between different kinds of content. I'll then be copying specific Regions down to new Tracks, from which several different composite versions of the material will be outputted.
All this means I'm going to end up with a LOT of Tracks, and it would be a huge organizational help if I could easily collapse/reveal different groups of Tracks at different times, so I was only having to see and scroll through the relevant ones.
But am I correct in understanding that while some of Logic's competitors have this kind of feature, Logic itself -- astoundingly -- does not???
Bracing myself for the bad news,
John Bertram
Toronto

Answer 1

Bee Jay wrote:
The nearest you can do is pack the tracks into a folder, and delete the source tracks, you you end up with only one folder track in the top level, and you can go "into" the folder to see the tracks and contents of it, and come back out again.
I didn't realize there was the option to delete the source tracks but retain the Folder -- perhaps I'll explore that.
But am I correct in understanding that while some of Logic's competitors have this
kind of feature, Logic itself -- astoundingly -- does not???
Well, not every piece of software has every feature imaginable - and this hasn't stopped people making music with Logic.
In order to implement this, you'd probably have to introduce some kind of track group which would be similar to region folders ("track folders") in order to group like tracks and therefore fold and unfold the track folders' contents - but this might start to get confusing to have two different, but similar functions in the arrange page.
I admit, "astounding" was just me venting. But the hypothetical implementation you describe is exactly what I was hoping to find. As for potential confusion, perhaps they'd need to avoid the word "folder", and call them "track groups", or something like that. But I think it would be an extremely useful organizational tool for those projects where your Tracks start numbering in the several dozens. (Plus it would allow the user to re-position a whole group of Tracks in one move, rather than having to select, drag, and position each Track one at a time.)
Sounds like Feedback Time, once again ('guess it beats doing actual work!).
Thanks very much for the well-considered reply.
jb