Wider grouping capabilities

Question

I mix a lot in audition, and its a bit of a pain when I want to group, lets say the drum tracks, and send them all to a bus. I have to change every output to the drumbus, which takes a lot of time. Sometimes I have over 70 tracks which all need to be grouped. So to speed up things a little I would like to see better grouping capabilities. For instance, selecting the right tracks all at once and then with one click route them to a group bus. Even collapsing a group would be a nice addition (for me).This would make the workflow much easier.

Answer 1

Heh, I thought I'd spelt it out... :) Say you want to put 10 tracks through a bus track. Instead of directing each to the bus, the bus track is deemed a folder track and the tracks to be sent to it are put into the folder en bloc - just indicate in the UI which is the last track to be included in the folder. In good implementations you can create folders within the folder - say all the cymbal mics could be in a sub folder of the drums folder. Or whatever.
Then you can set the overall level of the tracks in the folder in the top track, and put whatever FX you want into that track if you want to apply that effect to the lot.
Then of course one can have tracks acting as VCA tracks, but that's a whole other way of doing things.
To repeat, these are things which could be added to Audition, they're not yet there.
Personally I tend to stick to a stereo pair and thus the whole problem is avoided!