Transport Control

The Transport Control is similar to a tape recorder's transport control.

Transport Control

The Transport Control is controlled by the following buttons:

• Rewind Button
• Fast Forward
• Home Button: Go to start of song.
• Start Button: Clicking this button will start the Transport (use the Shift key to start at the last start position).
• Stop Button: Clicking this button will stop the Transport.

In addition the following keyboard keys can be used:

• Home Key: Go to start of song.
• End Key: Go to end of song.
• Space Bar: Toggle Transport start/stop.
• Shift Space Bar: Start at last start position.
• Left/Right Cursor Key: Rewind/Fast Forward.
  Several modifier keys can be used combined with the left/right cursor keys:
  • M: To previous/next Marker.
  • B: To previous/next bar.
  • S: One second backward/forward.
  • I: One minute backward/forward.
  • Q: One quarter hour backward/forward.
  • H: One hour backward/forward.
  • Alt: Walk through history of recent start positions. These positions are also available on the Markers menu. You can press ALT Left Cursor to manually 'loop' part of the Song. This can be useful when setting up effects.

When the Transport is started (by either clicking the Start Button or pressing the Space Bar) all tracks that are in Play mode will play back, and all tracks that are in Record mode will record. If there are no tracks that are in Playback mode or Record mode the Transport will not start.

Cycle Transport
After right-clicking the Start button you can select "Start cycling", which will make the Transport cycle through a region until you stop the Transport. The cycle region starts at the current Transport position. The end of the region can be picked from a list that appears right after you click "Start cycling". This list contains the Markers and the end of the song (ie. the length of the longest track). If you're doing a punch-in recording the point two seconds after the end of the punch region appears in the list as well.
The cycle region is indicated on the Overview Bar while cycling.

Note: in cycle mode the Transport is actually stopped and started again when a new cycle starts, so there's a gap in the sound.