Tracks
Tracks are rows in the event display that represent time horizontally from left to right. They allow you to control multiple musical elements in a project simultaneously but independently of each other.
The term was established when audio mixing was done on tapes, and multitracking allowed separate elements of the music to be recorded and edited independently of each other before being combined into the final piece of music.
In modern programs, such as Cubase, tracks can contain many types of sounds, including audio recordings and software instruments. Tracks containing audio recordings often display the waveform of the audio, while tracks containing software instruments often display the pitches as rectangular note events positioned horizontally in time and vertically in pitch on a piano roll.
Dorico Pro provides the following types of tracks in the event display in Play mode:
- Player tracks
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Contain all the instrument tracks belonging to that player. You can expand/collapse player tracks to show the instrument tracks they contain.
- Instrument tracks
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Display the notes belonging to the instrument in a piano roll or drum editor, depending on the type of instrument.
Each instrument track also has its own playing techniques lane and automation lane.
- Time track
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Displays tempo changes in the flow, including tempo marks input in Write mode as well as tempo changes input in the Time track.
- Chords track
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Displays chord symbols in the flow.
- Markers track
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Displays markers in the flow, including their text.
- Video track
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Shows where there is video in the flow, if applicable, including its file name.