Nested track folders

To improve track organization, Cakewalk now supports nested track folders. A nested folder is a subfolder that is contained within another parent folder. Nested subfolders allow you to organize tracks more logically. For example, you can have a “Guitar” parent folder that contains “Electric” and “Acoustic” subfolders.

To only move tracks into another folder, drag one of the tracks or select Move To... from the context menu of one of the tracks.

To move the entire folder, drag the folder itself onto another folder, or select Move To... from the context menu of the folder.

If a track is in a folder, selecting Move To Folder > New Track Folder will create a new sub-folder at the same level of that track.

 

Note: As with the top level folders, any empty folders (i.e. specifically, folders containing no tracks) will ALWAYS appear below those containing tracks.

 

Tip: When changing the color of a track folder, hold down the CTRL key to apply the same color to all child tracks within the folder.

New behavior when dragging tracks/folders:

Dragging a track to the left side moves it out of the folder.

Dragging to the right side moves it to the bottom of the existing folder at the target location (i.e. same level as the track above).

 

Tip: While dragging, look at the left edge of the drop indicator - it will be exactly at the folder depth the track will be placed at.

Expand/collapse track folder modifiers:

SHIFT+click on folder +/- to expand/collapse the entire folder hierarchy of the folder you clicked on

CTRL+SHIFT+click on folder +/- to expand/collapse all folders in the project

This is convenient if you want to quickly expand the hierarchy to search for a track, but then want to collapse it all.

Track templates and folders

The Save as Track Template context menu is only available on tracks, not on folders. If you want to save a track template with folders, you must right-click on one of the tracks within the folder.

A track template cannot contain empty folders.

For details, see Working with track templates.

 

See:

Track folders

New features