Control Toolbar

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The Control Toolbar has buttons for controlling playback and recording.
These buttons can also be controlled with keyboard shortcuts.

Transport buttons

Pause

Temporarily pauses playing or recording without losing your place. Press Pause a second time to resume.

Play

Standard-speed playback. If an area of track is selected, only that selection will be played. Otherwise, playback begins wherever the selection cursor is. To loop-play (play the track or selection over and over until you press Stop), hold down SHIFT while pressing Play. This causes the button image to change to loop-play: .

Stop

Stops playing or recording immediately.

Skip to Start

Move the cursor to the beginning of the project. This is useful if you want to play everything, or record a new track starting from the beginning.

Skip to End

Move the cursor to the end of the project.

Holding down SHIFT whilst clicking Skip to Start extends a selection region from the cursor position or current selection area to the start of the project. Holding down SHIFT with Skip to End similarly extends a selection region to the end of the project.

Record

Recording begins at either the current cursor location or at the beginning of the current selection. Pressing Record always creates a new track, but you can append-record (start recording at the end of the currently selected track(s)) by holding down SHIFT while pressing Record.