User`s guide

Chapter 14: Playing/Selecting Track Material 155
chapter 14
Playing/Selecting Track Material
Playing Tracks
After recording or importing to tracks,
you’ll want to listen to the material to find
track ranges that require editing, or mate-
rial that can be turned into regions for use
elsewhere.
You can click anywhere in a track with the
Selector to begin playback from that point
(as long as the Edit and Timeline selections
are linked, see “Separate Edit and Timeline
Selections” on page 161).
Depending on the selected Scrolling Op-
tion, the playback cursor, a solid unblinking
line, moves across the Edit window to indi-
cate the current playback position. The
playback location is displayed in the
Counters in the Transport window, in the
Big Time window, and also in the Location
Indicators.
The edit cursor, on the other hand, is a
flashing line that appears when you click
with the Selector in a track’s playlist. The
blinking edit cursor indicates the start
point for any editing tasks performed. If
you make a selection and perform an edit,
the selection is the target of the edit.
☞ The selected Scrolling Option determines
how the Edit window scrolls during playback,
and how the playback cursor functions. See
“Scrolling Options” on page 157 for details.
To begin playing from a specific point within a
track:
1 Select Operations > Scrolling Options >
No Auto Scrolling.
2 Make sure to select Operations > Link
Edit and Timeline Selection.
3 With the Selector, click in the track
where you want playback to begin.
4 Click Play in the Transport window to be-
gin playback.
5 Click Stop in the Transport window to
stop playback.
To jump to a different location and begin
playing from there, click with the Selector
at that point and click Play in the Trans-
port window.
Setting a playback point with the Selector
Transport with Counters displayed