Transport Toolbar
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
- The Control Toolbar has buttons for controlling playback and recording.
- These buttons can also be controlled with keyboard shortcuts.
Transport buttons
Pause
Temporarily pauses playing or recording without losing your place. Press Pause a second time to resume.
Play
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 loop-play: The Loop Play button.
Stop
Stops playing or recording immediately.
Skip to Start
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
Move the cursor to the end of the project.
Record
Recording begins at either the current cursor location or at the beginning of the current selection. Pressing Record always creates a new track, but you can append-record (start recording at the end of the currently selected track(s)) by holding down SHIFT while pressing Record.
Alternative button order
The default "ergonomic" order of buttons on the Control Toolbar can unchecked in Interface Preferences to this alternative order:
