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Working with tracks and lanes
Setting up tracks
• To set the number of tracks to view in the current Project window, use the Track
Scale pop-up menu (opened by clicking the arrow button above the vertical zoom
control).
The track height will be adjusted to show only the number of tracks specified 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 window.
By default, lanes have a track height of 4 rows (see “Working with lanes” on page 94).
If you have difficulties to discern the recorded takes, you can size the lanes individually
as usual.
Data display on the tracks
Changing the width and the height of tracks naturally has an effect on how the track
controls and the parts or events on the track are displayed. The following happens
when you resize a track’s height or width:
• The track controls will be placed where they best “fit in” by default. The controls
shown for tracks in the track list will adapt to the track size.
If you prefer to have the controls in fixed positions, deactivate the “Wrap Controls”
option in the Track Controls settings dialog (see
“Customizing track controls” on
page 702).
• The contents of events and parts will not be shown if the height of a track is very
small.
You can change this behavior by activating “Show Event Data on Small Track
Heights” in the Preferences dialog (Event Display).
About the Enlarge Selected Track option
When this option is activated on the Edit menu (or in the Preferences dialog, Editing–
Project & MixConsole 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 activated). 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 activating
“Enlarge Selected Track” again, you can resize a track in the track list without
selecting it.