
Quick-Start Guide
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At the top of the items list, you will see a folder called edits and inside this folder will be
one or more edit items. You can open one of these edits by double-clicking on the item, or
by clicking once to select it and then clicking the open for editing button (Fig. 2-2), which is
now shown in the properties panel at the bottom of the page.
Figure 2-2
Note: This illustrates the most important rule of working with Tracktion: select an item
and all of its adjustable parameters are available to you in the properties panel at the bot-
tom of the screen. When learning Tracktion, you can discover a lot of what Tracktion has
to offer by selecting an item and exploring its properties panel.
In short, to open an edit:
• Switch to the projects page.
• Select a project in the projects list.
• Double-click on an edit in the items list (or open it from its properties panel).
Depending on the size of the edit, it may take a few moments to open, but once it is
fully loaded, Tracktion will switch you to the edit page, and you will see the edit laid out
as a series of horizontal tracks. You can think of a track as being a single part or instru-
ment within a song. We will look more closely at this page later, but for now we’ll just skip
straight to playing the demo song we’ve just opened.
If you look to the bottom right of the edit page,
you will see the transport section (Fig. 2-3). Click the
play button to start playback of the demo song.
If all has gone well, you will be hearing the demo
song. Click the play button again when you wish to
stop the demo.
Note: The reference manual has a troubleshooting
section. If for some reason things are not working
as expected, you may find a solution there.
Figure 2-3
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