Try going into the mixer, highlight a few audio tracks. Right click on them, and click “add VCA fader to selected channels”. Then try to delete that fader. It doesn’t seem to be possible.
ALSO, even if you “right click” one of the linked channels, and click “unlink channels”, the VCA fader slot is still there. The green fader button disappears, but the slot is still in the mixer taking up space.
Ah, I wasn’t using the “add VCA fader to selected channels” function, and using that method I cannot get rid of the fader either. More steps, but you can Add Track → VCA Fader and then add your channels to it. This method allows you to delete that fader in the normal way.
So there is a bug in creating them the way I was creating them. If you create the VCA fader the way you suggest, how do you add channels to it? I use Kontakt with multiple channels to do drums… so Kontakt has a whole bunch of outputs. I want to link all of them as a single VCA fader. How can I do that using your method?
Select all the channels you want to link. Hover just above the pan UI on one of those selected channels and a down arrow will appear. Click the arrow and hover over “Include in link group”. Name the link group. Select “Use VCA Fader” and then, Ok. The new VCA will automatically be named "VCA " + whatever you named the link group.
You retracted this in your next post - But you are Correct!
When a Channel is a part of a VCA Group it cannot be selected individually in the Mix Console. You also cannot enter record from the Mix Console on a single channel that is part of a VCA group!
It can be selected individually in the Project Window, BUT . . .
This means you CANNOT use the Mix Console to enter Record on a single Track that is part of a VCA Group.
And, in the same way, I cannot enter record using my MCU Hardware, either,
All channels of that VCA Group enter record.
VCA faders are just way to buggy and messy for me to mess with right now. I’m going to stop using them until there is some kind of update. Now I’ve got a project I accidentally saved with empty VCA faders all over the place I cannot remove. Very frustrating.
Also, there doesn’t appear to be any way to organize the VCA faders in the mixer… they ought to be drag-able so we can place them where we need them… and there should be away to also put them all in one area (like maybe right in front of the output faders or something)…