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The Project window
Zooming and navigating in the overview line
By clicking the Show Overview button on the toolbar, an
extra pane appears under the toolbar; the project overview
line.
Show Overview button
In the overview line, events and parts on all tracks are dis-
played as boxes. You can use the overview line to zoom in
or out, and for navigating to other sections of the project.
This is done by moving and resizing the track view rectan-
gle in the overview line:
• The track view rectangle indicates the section of the
project currently displayed in the event display.
• You zoom in or out horizontally by resizing the rectangle.
Resize it by dragging the edges of the rectangle.
• You can drag the track view rectangle to view other
sections of the project.
This can also be done by clicking anywhere in the upper part of the over-
view – the track view rectangle will be moved to where you clicked. The
number of tracks shown will not change.
Handling tracks
To add a track to the project, select “Add Track” from the
Project menu and select a track type from the submenu
that appears. The new track is added below the currently
selected track in the Track list.
• The items on the “Add Track” submenu are also avail-
able on the Quick menu.
This is accessed by right-clicking in the Track list.
• If you select Audio, MIDI, Group Channel or Instrument
from the Add Track submenu, a dialog opens, allowing
you to insert several tracks in one go.
Just enter the desired number of tracks in the value field.
• For audio and group channel tracks, the channel config-
uration – mono, stereo or a surround configuration (Cu-
base only) – can be set in the Configuration pop-up.
• The Browse Sounds option in the Add Track dialog is
described in the chapter “Track Presets” on page 300.
• In the Preferences (Editing–Project & Mixer page, you
can find the option “Auto Track Color Mode”.
This offers you several options for automatically assigning colors to
tracks that are added to the project.
Once you have created tracks, you can manipulate and re-
arrange them in various ways:
• To rename a track, double-click in the name field and
type in a new name.
If you hold down any modifier key when pressing [Return] to close the
name field, all events on the track will get the name you entered.
The track view rectangle