9

Table Of Contents
Chapter 2 Building a Basic Project
11
Understanding Tracks and Regions
An audio track is a lane in the Arrange area that is used for the playback, recording,
and editing of audio regions.
An audio region is a rectangular object that resides on an audio track. It can be freely
edited and its boundaries correspond to start and end points within the underlying
audio le it is associated with.
A software instrument track is a lane in the Arrange area that is used for the playback,
recording, and editing of MIDI regions, which play internal software instruments.
A MIDI region is a rectangular object that resides on a software instrument track. It
contains MIDI events—individual notes or commands—that are generally created
with a MIDI keyboard.