Tracks Menu - Audacity Manual

# Tracks Menu

From Audacity Development Manual
Tracks Menu provides commands for:

- Creating and removing tracks
- Applying operations to selected tracks such as Mixing, resampling, converting from stereo to mono, aligning or muting

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To change properties of individual audio tracks, such as gain and pan, View Mode (such as the default Waveform view) and channel display, use the Audio Track Dropdown Menu in the Track Control Panel.

## Add New

The Add New submenu provides commands for adding stereo or mono tracks, label tracks and time tracks.

See Tracks Overview for details of the different kinds of tracks.

## Mix

The Mix submenu provides commands for mixing and rendering your selected tracks to a single stereo or mono track.

## Resample

Allows you to resample the selected track(s) to a new sample rate, by adding or removing samples, for use in the project, leaving the length (and hence playback speed and pitch) unchanged.

| Note that this is very different from what happens when you use the dropdown menu of the Track Control Panel to change the Sample Rate of a track. This instead concentrates or spreads the audio samples and thus changes the length of the track. Increasing the rate squeezes the existing samples into a shorter length (so increasing playback speed and pitch), while decreasing the rate spreads them out over a greater length (so reducing playback speed and pitch).

## Remove Tracks

Removes the selected track(s) from the project. Even if only part of a track is selected, the entire track is removed. You can also remove a track by clicking the X in its upper left corner.

To remove only the selected audio in a track (without adding it to the clipboard) use Edit > Delete or either Split Delete or Silence Audio at Edit > Remove Special.

## Mute/Unmute

The Mute/Unmute submenu mutes or unmutes all of the tracks in your project in one go, without having to use the buttons Mute and Unmute in each track's Track Control Panel.

## Pan

The Pan submenu changes the panning of all the tracks you have selected or partially selected, in one go, without having to use the Pan sliders in each track's Track Control Panel.

The panning choices are extreme Left or Right pan or Center pan. If no tracks are selected, pan is changed in all tracks.

## Align Tracks

The Align Tracks submenu provides a set of commands to help you align your selected tracks in various ways. In particular there are two very useful commands that enable you to align tracks end-to-end, one after the other, or align them all together.

Align Tracks ignores any setting you have for snapping.

## Sort Tracks

The Sort Tracks submenu provides commands to sort your tracks by Track Names or the tracks' start times.

## Keep tracks synchronized (Sync-Lock)

The Sync-Lock feature ensures that length changes occurring anywhere in a defined group of tracks also take place in all audio or label tracks in that group, even if those tracks were not selected.

This lets you keep existing audio or labels synchronized with each other, even when carrying out actions like inserting, deleting or changing speed or tempo. You can turn this feature "on" or "off" (default is unchecked "off") by clicking this menu item.

See Sync-Locked Track Groups for more information.