User guide
Tracktion 4 Reference Manual
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Once an edit grows large enough, or is zoomed in far enough that it becomes necessary to scroll the
screen to see it all, a horizontal scrollbar will appear (Fig. 3.3.5). This scrollbar provides a third, and ex-
tremely fast way of moving through your edit.
Tracktion allows you a great deal of control over zoom level. You can zoom into an edit far enough
that you can edit audio clips at single sample precision, while also being able to quickly zoom out and
see your entire edit on screen. Learning how to zoom in and out of the time-line quickly and efciently
is a big part of using Tracktion to its full potential. This section will look at a few useful tools for quickly
adjusting the horizontal zoom level.
One easy way to set the zoom level is simply to use your mouse-wheel. Rotating the wheel forwards
moves you into the edit, where rotating it backwards moves you out of the edit. This method is perhaps
the most powerful, as with practise you can scroll and zoom in one uid movement. Try scrolling by
dragging the play-head cursor, then rotate the mouse-wheel. It can be a little confusing at rst, but with
a little practise you’ll nd you can easily control both movements at once.
Note: If you do not have a mouse-wheel, you can try dragging while the right mouse button is held
down.
The horizontal scrollbar has a useful zoom tool that allows you to adjust
the zoom level, as well quickly t the entire edit into the available horizontal
space. Figure 3.3.6 shows the zoom control. You will nd this control lo-
cated between the transport section and the lter section.
The plus and minus buttons can be used to incrementally zoom into out
of the edit.
Keyboard shortcut: ARROW UP and ARROW DOWN.
The button labelled “h” will resize the edit to t on screen, allowing you
to quickly see the layout of your complete arrangement.
Keyboard shortcut: F5
In larger edits, you may nd that you have more tracks than can be comfortably viewed on screen at
one time. We have already seen how folder tracks can help manage large edits, but from time to time
you will still need to scroll through your track list.
Figure 3.3.5
Figure 3.3.6