Now in Beta: New Preference to Control Automatic Track Creation on the Timeline

While this is a great improvement, it doesn’t solve the issue when you have a clip in your source monitor and want to insert / overlay edit audio channels from a source that has more tracks than your timeline (you still have to click the + button which automatically adds more unwanted tracks to your sequence). Adobe, look at how Avid and Final Cut have been doing this for decades and implement it. (they show all the audio source track indicator buttons on the left and you can then them to point at the fewer tracks on the right you have in your sequence...or if you don’t, it’ll then automatically add however many tracks you’ve highlighted in the source buttons on the left to your timeline)

Afraid this still doesn’t work v well. I don’t want tracks added - but I do want to see what source channels are available (not a plus sign). 

Works nicely in Beta, thanks for this - I would add a complimentary feature that should be added is to simply display all source tracks for the purpose of track patching, regardless of how many tracks are in your sequence - you should not need to create new tracks in your sequence just to patch from as many tracks on the source side. This is especially nice on smaller screens where users might not have the real estate to just ‘live with’ more tracks than are required, just so they can patch from, say, 8-track camera files or other sources.

Yes but with a caveat! In addition to it being annoying that tracks are automatically, unwanted, created upon cutting into a timeline, it’s also ideal to see the tracks that are going to be added because we may desire to add channels A6, A8, A10 but not the others, despite the sequence only have tracks as high as A4. So seeing a ghosting of tracks that are going to be cut in would be a plus to add to this very helpful adjustment.

Yaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!! 😀