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Import: This option allows you to add new material to an edit. Importing material into edits is discussed
in Chapter Eight.
Export: This option allows you to export content from your edit, or export the edit as an archive. Export-
ing content is discussed in Chapter Eight.
Timecode: This button displays options related to tempo, MIDI, and video synchronisation. This menu
is also available by right-clicking the time-line. The tempo and time-line functions are detailed in Chap-
ter Six.
Click track: This button displays a pop-up menu with options relating to Tracktion’s click-track. The
click-track is detailed in Chapter Six.
Snapping: This button displays a pop-up menu with options relating to snapping and quantising. The
snapping options are detailed in Chapter Six.
Tracks: This button displays a pop-up menu with options relating to tracks. Tracks are discussed in
Section Three of this chapter.
Options: When this button is clicked, a pop-up menu is displayed. This pop-up menu has the following
options:
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Scroll smoothly: By default the edit will only scroll when the play-head cursor reaches the edge
of the arrange area. When this option is selected the play-head cursor will be xed at the centre
of the arrange area, and the edit will scroll continuously. This makes it easier to follow the edit
visually during playback, but places extra load on computer resources.
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Show waveform: Use this option to enable or disable whether audio clips show waveforms, and
MIDI clips show MIDI data when in shrunken state.
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Audible trimming: When this option is enabled, trimming operations on audio clips will be au-
dible. This can be useful for the purposes of scrubbing.
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Return cursor to start position when play stops: When this option is selected, the play-head
cursor will react to playback mode being stopped by returning to the point at which playback be-
gan.
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Default MIDI editor vertical scale: Use this option to select how many octaves are spanned
when in MIDI editor mode. If you do a lot of MIDI editing by hand, you may nd two or perhaps
four octaves to be the best choice. Otherwise you may prefer to have a fuller range by default.
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Make new clips the size of the marked region: When this option is selected, new clips will be
the size of the marked region.
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Stop all playback when application is minimised: When working across more than one ap-
plication, for example using a wave editor alongside Tracktion, it is sometimes useful to have the
minimise button automatically stop playback.
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Warn about lost MIDI notes on inputs: When this option is enabled, Tracktion displays a warn-
ing message if MIDI notes are received by a MIDI input device that is not connected to a track.
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Show big input level meters: When this option is selected, large level meters are shown hori-
zontally across tracks that have inputs attached. This makes it easier to see the input levels at a
distance from the screen.
Keyboard shortcut: CTRL + ALT + M (CMD + CTRL + M for Mac users).
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Mouse wheel action: This option controls whether the mouse wheel is used to zoom or scroll in
the arrange area. Note, whichever option is chosen, holding down the SHIFT key provides the
alternate functionality.
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Use incoming velocities for MIDI step entry: When this option is enabled, the MIDI editor’s
xed velocity will be ignored in step editor mode. Instead, the velocity of the incoming note will
be used.