Transport

The transport controls are similar to a tape recorder's transport controls.

The transport controls

The transport is controlled by five buttons (from left to right):

• Home: Go to start of song.
• Rewind
• Fast Forward
• Stop: Stop the transport.
• Start: Start the transport (use the Shift key to start at the last start position).

When the transport is started (by either clicking the Start button or pressing the space bar) all tracks that are in playback mode will play back, and all tracks that are in record mode will record. If there are no tracks that are in either playback or record mode the transport will not start.

Cycle Transport

After clicking the Start button's down arrow 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 selected part of focused track" option cycles the part that's selected in the focused track's editor.
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.