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The current track’s controls are contained in the Track/Bus Inspector .
The Clips pane shows the clips in your project on a horizontal timeline called the Time Ruler that helps
you visualize how your project is organized. Clips contain markings that indicate their contents. The
Clips pane lets you select, move, cut and copy clips from place to place to change the arrangement of
music and sound in your project.
The Bus pane shows the buses in the project, and also shows any editing views that are in tabbed
(docked) format. The Show/Hide Bus pane button
allows you to show or hide the Bus pane at the
bottom of the Track view.
The Navigator pane displays a large part of your project so you can see an overview of your song. The
Navigator pane displays all of your project’s tracks.
The Track view makes it easy to select tracks, clips, and ranges of time in a project. These are the most
common selection methods:
As with most other Windows programs, you can also use the Shift-click and Ctrl-click combinations
when selecting tracks and clips. Holding the Shift key while you click adds tracks or clips to the current
selection. Holding the Ctrl key while you click lets you toggle the selection status of tracks or clips.
Track/Bus Inspector
The Track/Bus Inspector makes it easy to adjust the current track’s (or bus’s) controls, because it’s a
greatly expanded version of the current track’s controls that is located on the left side of the Track pane.
You can hide or show any one or all of the controls in the Track/Bus Inspector by clicking the four
buttons at the bottom of the Track/Bus Inspector.
The following graphic shows most of the Track/Bus Inspector’s controls (there may not be room to
display all of a track’s controls on the Track/Bus Inspector, depending on the resolution of your
monitor):
To… Do this…
Select tracks Click on the track number, or drag over several
track numbers
Select clips Click on the clip, or drag a rectangle around
several clips
Select time ranges Drag in the Time Ruler, or click between two
markers
Select partial clips Hold down the Alt key while dragging over a clip