Track Control Buttons

Along the left-side of each staff you will see a group of four track control buttons, as shown:

These four buttons affect the entire track. Therefore, these buttons are displayed only at the beginning of the first set of staves in the window.

The purpose of each button is summarized below, and described in more detail in the topics that follow.

   Play or mute: turn the track sound on or off during playback.

   Solo: play only this track while muting all other tracks (except other soloed tracks).

   Instrument sound: assign a new device, MIDI bank, MIDI patch, or name to the track.

     Select the track: prepare for a Track menu command such as Split Hands, or a Region menu command such as Remove Inaudible Notes.

You can use any of these controls during playback.

You may not always want these track controls to use up space on the the screen. In such cases, follow this next procedure.

To show or hide the track control buttons.

     Turn off the Show Track Controls checkmark in the View menu.

     -- OR --

     Type "qstc" for Quick Show Track Controls, to toggle between show and hide.

If the track controls are not currently visible, there is an alternative way you can accomplish the same tasks as offered by the track controls.

To accomplish track control tasks when the controls are not visible:

1.      While holding down the 'T' key, click the mouse anywhere in a staff for the track.      Composer will display a pop-up menu, such as illustrated here:

2.      Choose the equivalent track control command from the pop-up menu.

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