Audio Tracks

This is a reference page. We need to keep it to an 'anatomy' of a track, and avoid tutorial material, linking to tutorials where that is needed.
Where is the residual "tutorial" material here? It is not finished but most of the old "tutorial" material has already been excised. The danger of being too strict about "reference only" material is that it is too limited to be useful, shunts users around needlessly, and invites the duplication problems we now have. I agree with you largely but don't quite see what you are objecting to here - Gale

An audio track containing digital audio has a Track Panel, a vertical scale with units (except in the Pitch view) then the representation of the track itself (by default this is the "Waveform" view as in the image above). New tracks are created whenever you /import/ an audio file or /record/ into your project , can be /generated/ with particular types of tone or noise. Or Tracks > Add New *** Expand/add links ***

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Track Panel

• X: To close the track
• Title: Clicking on this (newly created tracks are called "Audio Track" gives a drop-down menu giving various options:////

• Track information:
• Mute: Click to silence this track when playing. Click again to unsilence.
• Solo: Click to play just this track. Click again to cancel. Solo takes precedence over mute - the mute buttons have no effect whilst any solo button is down.
• Gain: For this track.
• Pan: To make signal stronger on left or right earphone.
• Collapse: Click on this to make the track 'fold up' into a smaller size. Click again, or drag the lower edge of the track to restore the size.

With the Gain and Pan sliders, holding shift down whilst dragging the slider will move in smaller increments.

Move the entire track up or down in the list of tracks by clicking on the panel on the left and then dragging up or down.

Scale

• The scale for the waveform shows the number of dB. When the mouse is over the scale it changes to a magnify icon. Clicking can increase the zoom, shift clicking to zoom back out. This is a zoom in the vertical direction, and is used more rarely than the zoom on the time axis. See Zooming which covers both vertical and horiszontal zooming.

Display

Click and drag between the two waveforms to change their relative height.

See Tracks and Clips///two similar articles to be merged/// for more details on using the waveform display.