Toolbar

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# Main Toolbar

Selection Tool

This is the main tool you use to select audio. Click in a track to position the cursor, or click and drag to select a range of audio. If you drag from one track to another, you can select multiple tracks. Extend a selection by shift-clicking a new point in the track.

Playback will always begin at the position of the selection cursor. If a range of audio is selected, only the selected range will play.

Envelope Tool

The envelope tool gives you detailed control over how tracks fade in and out, right in the main track window. When the envelope tool is selected, the amplitude envelope of each track is highlighted in a green line, with control points at the beginning and end of each track. To change a control point, click it and drag it to a new position. To add a new point, click anywhere in the track where there is not already a control point. To remove a point, click on it and drag it outside of the track until it disappears, then release.

Time Shift Tool

This tool allows you to change the relative positioning of tracks relative to one another in time. To use this tool, simply click in a track and drag it to the left or right. To align two tracks together or reset their time shift back to zero, use the Align Tracks Together or Align with Zero commands.

Zoom Tool

This tool allows you to zoom in or out of a specific part of the audio. To zoom in, click anywhere in the audio. To zoom out, right-click or shift-click. If you have a middle button, you can middle-click to do the same thing as Zoom Normal.

In addition, you can zoom into a region by clicking and dragging the mouse to highlight the region you want to see, then releasing the mouse button.

Draw Tool

Enables the user to draw in to the actual waveforms. This is especially useful to eliminate small pops and clicks from material.
ALT + click smoothes a area of audio
CTRL + click & hold edits only one sample, no matter whether you move the mouse left or right.
Note:
In v1.1.1 from Nov11th 2002, the smoothing tool (CTRL+click) crashes if used too close to the edge of a tracks audio. Stay away from the edges.

Cursor to Start

Places the cursor at the start of the project.
SHIFT + click expands the selection to the start of the project.

Play Button

Press the play button to listen to the audio in your project. You can also hit the spacebar to start or stop playback. Playback begins at the current cursor position. If a region of audio is selected, only the selected region will play. To quickly play the entire project, execute Select All before playing. If there are multiple tracks going to the same channel in your project, they will be mixed automatically for playback.

Record Button

Press the record button to record a new track from your computer's sound input device. Use the Preferences to configure the recording options. In particular, there is an option to record stereo or mono, and there is an option to play the other tracks while recording, which doesn't work on all systems.

Recording always happens at the project's sample rate.

Pause Button

Will pause during playback, or during recording. Press again to unpause.

Stop Button

Press the stop button or hit the spacebar to stop playback immediately.

Cursor to End

Places the cursor at the end of the project.
SHIFT + click expands the selection to the end of the project.

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