Transport Toolbar

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Post 1.4.0 we look at having an annotated image at the top of the page with the buttons labelled....

We should do that for all pages where the "detailed" text is sufficiently short that we don't have quick text as well. Tools Toolbar badly needs that as the image looks pretty stupid as it is. I was already thinking of something similar, but had no time. Gale


Control Toolbar showing default "ergonomic" layout of buttons
  • The Control Toolbar has buttons for controlling playback and recording.
  • These buttons can also be controlled with keyboard shortcuts.

Transport buttons

Pause

The Pause button Temporarily pauses playing or recording without losing your place. Press Pause a second time to resume.

Play

The Play button Standard-speed playback. If an area of track is selected, only that selection will be played. Otherwise, playback begins wherever the selection cursor is. To loop play (play the track or selection over and over until you press Stop), hold down SHIFT while pressing Play. This causes the button image to change to to loop-play ([Image:Loop.png|The Loop Play button]].

Stop

The Stop button Stops playing or recording immediately.

Skip to Start

The Skip to Start button Move the cursor to the beginning of the project. This is useful if you want to play everything, or record a new track starting from the beginning.

Skip to End

The Skip to End button Move the cursor to the end of the project.

Holding down SHIFT whilst clicking Skip to Start extends a selection region from the cursor position or current selection area to the start of the project. Holding down SHIFT with Skip to End similarly extends a selection region to the end of the project.

Record

The Record button Recording begins at either the current cursor location or at the beginning of the current selection. Pressing Record always creates a new track, but holding down SHIFT while pressing Record starts the recording at the end of the currently selected track(s).


Alternative button order

The default "ergonomic" order of buttons on the Control Toolbar can unchecked Interface Preferences to this alternative order:

Control Toolbar showing optional layout of buttons