View Menu: Toolbars

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Click, or hover, on any menu item in the image to read about that command.

Toolbars

Toolbars can be used to determine which of the Audacity toolbars are displayed. By default all toolbars are shown except Spectral Selection and Scrub. The Combined Meter is off by default too, choosing this will turn off the individual Recording and Playback Meters.

This is a list of the available Toolbars: Device, Edit, Combined Meter, Recording Meter, Playback Meter, Mixer, Selection, Spectral Selection, Tools, Transcription, Transport and Scrub

"Reset Toolbars" at the top of this group positions all toolbars as they were when Audacity was first installed.

The Toolbars

The individual toolbars are described briefly below. Click on any toolbar image to go the details page for that toolbar.

Transport Toolbar

• Controls playback and recording and skips to start or end of project when neither playing or recording.

Tools Toolbar

• Chooses various tools for selection, volume adjustment, zooming and time-shifting of audio.

Recording Meter Toolbar

• Displays recording levels and toggles input monitoring when not recording.

  Note the two vertical bars at the right of this toolbar which mean that this toolbar can be resized by clicking and dragging on the bars.

Playback Meter Toolbar

• Displays playback levels.

  Note the two vertical bars at the right of this toolbar which mean that this toolbar can be resized by clicking and dragging on the bars.

Mixer Toolbar

• Adjusts the recording and playback volumes of the devices currently selected in Device Toolbar.

Edit Toolbar

Peter 13Apr17: ToDo-1 Sync-Lock button has been removed from the Edit Toolbar.

• Cut, copy, paste, trim audio, silence audio, undo, redo, sync-lock, zoom.

Transcription Toolbar

• Plays audio at a slower or faster speed than normal, affecting pitch.

Scrub Toolbar

• Starts, stops or switches to Scrub play or Seek play, and hides or displays the Scrub Ruler.
• This toolbar is not shown by default. Select View > Toolbars > Scrub Toolbar to show the toolbar, which by default docks in the upper dock.

Device Toolbar

• Selects audio host, recording device, number of recording channels and playback device.

  Note the two vertical bars at the right of this toolbar which mean that this toolbar can be resized by clicking and dragging on the bars.

Selection Toolbar

• Controls the sample rate of the project, snapping to the selection format and adjusts cursor and region position by keyboard input.

  The default position of Selection Toolbar is at the bottom of the main Audacity window, thus it is not visible in the Toolbars image at the top of this page.

Spectral Selection Toolbar

• Displays and lets you adjust the current spectral (frequency) selection without having to be in Spectrogram view.
• This toolbar is not shown by default. Select View > Toolbars > Spectral Selection Toolbar to show the toolbar, which by default docks in the lower dock, beside or under Selection Toolbar.
• Choose your preferred format option from the dropdown menu above the boxes: Center frequency and Width   or Low and High Frequencies  .

In Center frequency and Width view, to clear the spectral selection entirely just use the Delete key after having clicked on any of the digits (note carefully that this is not the Delete key on the numerical keypad). When in Low and High Frequencies view you can clear either input box individually with the Delete key.