User guide
Tracktion 4 Reference Manual
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1.1 : An Overview
The Projects Page In Brief
There is an old ofce wall aphorism that reads: “a tidy desk is the sign of a sick mind.” Whether or
not this is true, losing important work in a pile of clutter is perhaps not the best path to good mental
health either. Tracktion has many tools to help avoid the loss of work, as well as tools that can make it
easier to nd materials for a current project. The projects page provides a simple and seamless wrap-
per around many of these tools, making project management quick and painless; after all, no-one really
likes to tidy their desk, do they?
If you have read the quick start guide, you will already by familiar with Tracktion projects, but in sum-
mary, a project can be thought of as a container for a complete song. All of the material used by the
song will be contained in, or referenced by, the project.
Figure 1.1.1 shows Tracktion’s project page. You can see that there are a number of distinct regions.
On the left hand side, working from top to bottom you have: the projects list, the search tool, and the
control panel. The middle section of the screen contains the items list, and the properties panel. Finally,
in the bottom-right corner of the page, there is a clipboard tool. Each of these sections will be covered
in full in later sections of this chapter.
Figure 1.1.1