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The Project window
• If the option “Zoom while Locating in Time Scale” is ac-
tivated in the Preferences (Transport page), you can also
zoom by clicking in the main ruler and dragging up or
down with the mouse button pressed.
Drag up to zoom out; drag down to zoom in.
• You can zoom the contents of parts and events verti-
cally, using the waveform zoom slider in the top right cor-
ner of the event display.
This is useful when viewing quiet audio passages.
• If you activate the option Quick Zoom in the Prefer-
ences (Editing page), the contents of parts and events will
not be continuously redrawn when you zoom manually.
Instead, the contents are redrawn once you have stopped changing the
zoom – activate this if screen redraws are slow on your system.
Resizing tracks in the Track list
• You can change the height of an individual track by
clicking on its lower border in the Track list and dragging
up or down.
To change the height of all tracks simultaneously, hold down [Ctrl]/
[Command] and resize one of the tracks in this way. If “Snap Track
Heights” is activated on the Track scale pop-up (see below), the track
height will change in fixed increments when you resize it.
• You can also change the width of the Track list area, by
dragging the border between the Track list and the event
display.
• By default, the controls shown for tracks in the Track list
will adapt to the track size. This means that when resizing
a track’s height or width the controls will be placed where
they best “fit in”.
If you prefer to have the controls in fixed positions, you can deactivate the
option “Wrap Controls” in the Track Controls settings dialog (see “Cus-
tomizing track controls” on page 467).
• You can decide for each track type what controls
should be shown in the Track list – see “Customizing
track controls” on page 467.
• You can use the Track scale pop-up (opened by clicking
the arrow button above the vertical zoom control) to set the
number of tracks to view in the current Project window.
The track height will be adjusted to show only the number of tracks speci-
fied on the pop-up menu. By selecting “Zoom N Tracks” from the pop-up
you can manually set the number of tracks to fit in the current Project win-
dow.
• Tracks can also be divided vertically in lanes – see
“Editing in Lane Display mode” on page 52.
The Enlarge Selected Track option
When this option is activated on the Edit menu (or in the
Preferences, Editing–Project & Mixer page), the selected
track is enlarged automatically. This is useful if you are
stepping through the tracks in the track list, to check or
edit the settings. The tracks will revert to the size they had
before when they are deselected. You can adjust the size
directly in the Track list if the default enlargement factor
does not suit you.
While this is the program behavior you will want in most
cases, it may be a disadvantage when changing the track
height you started out with for one or more tracks (i.e. their
“original” height, before “Enlarge Selected Track” was ac-
tivated). As soon as you try to resize a track, it is selected
and automatically enlarged. Instead of turning off “Enlarge
Selected Track”, resizing the desired track(s) and the acti-
vating “Enlarge Selected Track” again, you can resize a
track in the Track list without selecting it.
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To get an approximate reading on the level of the au-
dio events by viewing the waveforms, make sure this
slider is all the way down. Otherwise, zoomed wave-
forms may be mistaken for clipped audio.
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This behavior is different when “Enlarge Selected
Track” is activated on the Edit menu (see below).