musescore / musescore/MuseScore

Ability to select multiple channels in mixer

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Description

Your idea

I'd like the ability to select channels in the mixer, to make changes to multiple channels at once, as is possible in DAWs.
Clicking anywhere within a channel should highlight the track (change colour to blue, or whatever). Then holding shift and pressing another channel should let you select a range of tracks, while holding ctrl (or cmd) should let you select a "custom selection".

Problem to be solved

This would be very handy when doing tasks like turning down the volume of selected tracks, like one section of an orchestra - or turning up or down the reverb level (or anything else that's on an aux channel).

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Research direction

The issue names no files or tests, so first locate the mixer channel UI and the existing track-control entry points. Read how channel focus and volume or aux controls currently work before designing selection behavior. Done means supporting single, shift-range, and ctrl/cmd custom channel selections that accept shared mixer changes.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
audio-video-rtc, desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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