Hide tracks in Logic Pro for Mac

In Logic Pro, you can hide tracks in the Tracks area. This is useful when you’re working on projects with a large number of tracks, for example. Hiding a track has no effect on playback. It affects only the appearance of the Tracks area and the Mixer.

There are two types of buttons that work together to control whether a track is visible:

Toggle Hide View button: Controls the visibility of hidden tracks. This button appears above the track headers the first time you hide a track or use the Toggle Hide View key command, default assignment: H.
Hide button: Each track has a Hide button in its track header that’s only visible when the Toggle Hide View button is green. Activate the Hide button to hide that track once the Toggle Hide View button is turned on (orange).

Hide button and Toggle Hide View button.

Hide one or more tracks

In Logic Pro, select one or more tracks that you want to hide.
Do one of the following:
- Choose Track > Hide Selected Tracks.
- Control-click the track header, then choose Hide Selected Tracks from the shortcut menu.
- Use the Hide/Show Selected Tracks key command, default assignment: Control-H.

The selected tracks disappear. The first time you use this action, the Toggle Hide View button appears above the track headers. Its orange color indicates that your project contains hidden tracks.

Note: You can also hide all unselected tracks in your project by using the corresponding Hide Unselected Tracks commands.

Show or hide hidden tracks

In Logic Pro, an orange Toggle Hide View button indicates that your project contains hidden tracks. To show all hidden tracks, do one of the following:

Click the Toggle Hide View button.
Choose Track > Toggle Hide View.
Control-click any track, then choose Toggle Hide View from the shortcut menu.
Use the Toggle Hide View key command, default assignment: H.

The Toggle Hide View button turns green to indicate that all hidden tracks are visible. This is the only view that shows the Hide buttons in the track headers. Turn a track’s Hide button on or off to change its Hide status.

Hide tracks via groups

You can use the Groups inspector in Logic Pro to simultaneously change the Hide status of all tracks in a group.

In Logic Pro, do either of the following:

Select the H checkbox in the Groups inspector to toggle the Hide button on all tracks belonging to that group.
You can also use the Toggle Hide Group 1 through Toggle Hide Group 64 key commands.
Select a group in the Groups inspector, then select the Hide checkbox at the bottom of the Settings pane. Now when you change the Hide status of a track, it will do the same for all tracks belonging to that group.

For more information on groups, see Overview of groups.

Unhide all tracks

In Logic Pro, an orange Toggle Hide View button indicates that you have hidden tracks in your project. To turn off all Hide buttons at once, do any of the following:

Choose Track > Unhide All Tracks.
Control-click any track header, then choose Unhide All Tracks from the shortcut menu.
Use the Unhide All Tracks key command, default assignment: Control-Shift-H.

The Toggle Hide View button turns gray to indicate that all tracks in your project are visible and have their Hide button turned off.

Note: Hiding a track will also hide the corresponding channel strip in the Mixer.

Download the guides:

Logic Pro User Guide: PDF

Logic Pro Instruments: PDF

Logic Pro Effects: PDF

Control Surfaces Support Guide: PDF

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Logic Pro User Guide for Mac

Hide tracks in Logic Pro for Mac

Hide one or more tracks

Show or hide hidden tracks

Hide tracks via groups

Unhide all tracks