< Does anyone else see a need for the Utility Tracks to be treat the same as Legacy tracks with respect to bar settings and volume control? >

Not at all. That's a step backwards. Besides, PG Music developers made all the Legacy Tracks work the same as Utility Tracks with respect to Mute/Unmute and volume control that provides greater accuracy and control and it's nearly universally ignored. The Bar Settings and Volume Control tools are better in the Utility Tracks than the coarse, rudimentary controls of the Legacy Bar Setting Dialog Window.

< Is there a reason why Utility tracks are "2nd class citizens" >

Yes. It because folks prefer to export files to DAWs for simple editing tasks even though it can be done faster and function's exactly the same when doing them in the Audio Edit Window.

Counting exporting to a DAW as an option, there are ten other tools in the Audio Edit Page to treat a Utility Track instrument volume. The most used and recognized method is 'export to a DAW' followed by volume automation and I speculate 90% of users can't name all ten.






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