Select All Tracks To Reduce Fader Level Across Entire Mix

With Logic Audio 9 - as part of my regular mix/master process - if things got too loud over time with always turning up, if the balance was perfect but I noticed Im redlining the outputs (eg +2db in the red) I I would drag a large box shaped lasso across all contributing audio sources (not busses or master mind!), then eyeball the specific floating point db level eg -1db and grab that pulling it down to -3db thusly the +2db overage would go down by 2 also to… ya know -0.1db is what I’d aim for.

Figuring out how to do this has turned out to be a big stumbling block for me with Ardour, probably in combination with the visual appearance of the fader knobs and coming from sessions which have been “bounce in place” and imported:

After Googling “select all tracks ardour” and not being satisfied with the AI answer, which is to “Control-A” this selects all my clips in the arrange but only one fader moves when i drag it to the left

perhaps i need to do it from the mixer…

and it seems i was able to do it finally by clicking the left most channel to make it red, scrolling to the right side, then shift clicking the rightmost channel.
it was easy to mess up though in the screenshot you can see that I have not selected channel 1 by mistake or by clicking on it or similar.

So click in the black space in the channel left side, then shift click the black space in the channel furthest to the right side. then grab the knob they all move together.

In Ardour, fader moves do not follow region selection (you selected regions (you may call them clips), not tracks).

Fader moves do follow track selection. You can select all tracks by either:

  1. ctrl/cmd-shift-click on one track header (selects all; also works for mute/solo/rec-enable etc)
  2. click on one track, shift-click on another … selects all tracks between & including those two

Ctrl+T selects all tracks.

Ctrl + T selects not only all tracks but also all busses and that’s not what Tomachi wants in this case.

Selection of tracks in Ardour (with ctrl, shift etc, what Paul describes) corresponds with the almost universal method of selection found in most applications, same way you select/deselect files in your file manager or text in a word processor.

My bad, I overlooked this part