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the Piano Roll view, click the Show/Hide Track List pane button
in the Track List pane:
Track's data shown in
Notes pane
Track's data hidden in Notes pane
Mute
Track enabled for track editing
To make a track the current track in the Track List pane, click on the track. When a thin dotted line
surrounds the track, it is the current track.
Tip: Clicking a note will make the note's parent track the current track.
The following is a list of ways to optimize the multiple track functionality in the Piano Roll view.
Selecting Tracks to View
Use the Pick Tracks combo button
the Pick Tracks combo button to open the Pick Tracks dialog box. Click on a track name to select it.
Hold down the Ctrl key and click more track names to select additional tracks. Click on the right side of
the Pick Tracks combo button to show the Show Previous/Next Tracks popup menu. Selecting Show
Previous Track(s) moves the track or range of tracks down by one track number. Selecting Show Next
Track(s) moves the track or range of tracks up by one track number. For example, if you have tracks 2, 3
and 7 displayed in the Track List pane and you select Show Previous Track(s), the Track List pane
displays tracks 1, 2, and 6.
Display
If the notes of two tracks overlap, the notes of the topmost track in the Track List pane appear over the
notes of the other track. You can move a track up or down by in the Track List pane by clicking and
holding on the track and moving the track to the desired position.
All tracks ending in the same digit (2, 12, 22, etc.) share the same color. The default colors can be
changed using Options-Colors.
The Enable/Disable Track Editing Button
The Enable/Disable Track Editing button
the Piano Roll view. When the button appears white, editing is enabled and the track appears in color.
When the button appears gray, editing is disabled and the track appears in gray.
Note: The Enable/Disable Track Editing button only disables the Piano Roll view tools; other editing
commands are still operational.
The Show/Hide Track Button
The Show/Hide Track button
appears in color when toggled on, white when off.
The Invert Tracks Button
If you use the Show/Hide Track button to hide any tracks in the Track List pane, you can show all these
tracks and hide the ones that are currently displayed by clicking the Invert Tracks button.
Track disabled for track editing
Arm
Solo
to assign tracks to the Track List pane. Click on the left side of
sets whether or not you can edit the notes of a track in
controls whether or not a track appears in the Notes pane. The button
. The following shows three tracks
Output
Current track
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