User guide
Tracktion 4 Reference Manual
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Project Management — Opening and Closing Projects.
Before we dive into too much detail, let’s take a look at the projects page as a whole. In essence, the
projects page is where you manage the songs and edits you are currently working on. It is not neces-
sarily a list of all projects you have ever worked on; rather it is a list of active, or open, projects. This
distinction is important, because unless a project has been opened, even though it may be on your
hard-drive, it will not show in the list.
So what is an open project? In short an open project is simply a project that you have asked Track-
tion keep handy for you. If you are familiar with the concept of bookmarks, or favourites in a web
browser, you can think of open projects in the same way. The project isn’t open in any real sense, just
bookmarked for easy access. Similarly, closing a project does nothing more than remove the entry from
the projects list. No changes are made to the actual project data on your disk.
So what’s the point? Well, if you like to work on just a few projects at a time, and do not wish to
be distracted by older projects that are either nished, or on hold, you can simply close those earlier
works. In this way, your project list will contain only the projects that are relevant to you at any one time.
To open a project that has previously been closed:
• Click the
open project.. button in the control section (Fig. 1.1.2).
• You will be presented with a browse for le dialogue. Browse to the location on your hard-drive
where the project le is located, and select it.
To close a project:
• Right-click on the entry in the project list.
• Select the option
close this project from the pop-up menu (Fig. 1.1.3).
Figure 1.1.2
Figure 1.1.3