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Tracktion 4 Reference Manual
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The Track Properties
When a track is selected, its properties will be displayed in the properties panel (Fig. 3.3.9).
Name: This eld allows you to view or set the name of the track as shown in the input section.
Mute/solo: These options allow the track to be muted or soloed. These controls are duplicates of the
mute / solo controls in the track’s lter section.
Solo isolate: This option toggles whether the track is in the solo isolate group. When this option is
active, the track will not be muted when another track is soloed. This control is a duplicate of the solo
isolate control in the the track’s lter section. This is useful for tracks like reverb returns so you will still
have the reverb when soloing a single track.
Freeze track: This option “freezes“ the track. Freezing is discussed in Chapter Eight.
Render track: You can render the content of this track down to a single audio le. The rendering op-
tions are outside of the scope of this chapter, and are discussed in detail in Chapter Eight.
Insert new tracks: This option can be used to add new tracks, or folder tracks to an edit. New tracks
will be inserted between the current track and the next track.
Insert a new clip: When this button is clicked, a pop-up menu is shown, from which you can choose
the type of clip to add. The new clip will be placed on the current track. If there is a loop region set, and
the make new clips the size of the marked region option is selected in the options menu, then the
new clip will ll that region. Otherwise a new clip of arbitrary length will be created at the cursor point.
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Insert new MIDI clip: adds a new MIDI clip to the edit.
Keyboard shortcut: G.
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Insert new audio clip: adds a new audio clip to the edit. After the clip has been created, you will
be prompted for the path of an audio le with which this clip should be associated. It is usually
faster to use the browser component of the quick nd panel to add new audio clips to an edit.
Move track up/down: These option buttons allow you to move the track up, or down, in the track list
order. You can also reposition a track in the list by dragging on the track’s name.
Delete track: This button removes the track from the edit.
Keyboard shortcut (with track selected): DELETE or BACKSPACE.
Select all clips in a track: This option highlights all clips in this track.
Keyboard shortcut (with clip selected): CTRL + A (CMD + A for Mac users).
Shrink / grow: These options reduce, or increase, the vertical size of the track through four pre-set siz-
es: squashed, normal, large, and extra-large. The largest two sizes are especially useful for MIDI clips,
as these sizes are large enough to allow for MIDI editing in the piano-roll editor.
Mute / unmute all lters: These buttons cyclically set all lters on the track to muted (disabled) or un-
muted (enabled).
Auto-advance: This option sets whether Tracktion chooses an optimum value for the advance eld, or
whether you are instead providing a manual setting. Unless you have a very good reason to adjust this
setting for a track, it is a good idea to always leave it enabled.
Figure 3.3.9