Track

A track is one row of a song: a recording, a notes part, or a group of tracks. Its level and pan are on its header, and its Sound tab holds its Pitch and Keep voice and its effects.

Change a track's speed and pitch

Speed and pitch live in different places, because they change different things:

• Speed is on the track's Composition tab, with Repeats and Gap, because it changes when the clip plays: pick the piece and press its speed icon to the left of the picture (a group's own Speed is on its Composition tab's settings row). It makes the clip you picked play faster or slower without moving its pitch, so it can be fitted to the tempo of the piece around it. A slower clip is a longer clip, so the clips after it on the same track move along to keep their places — the two halves of a split recording still meet exactly.
• Pitch is on the Sound tab, and it belongs to the whole track: every clip on the track shares it, and a clip you add to the track or move onto it takes it too. It moves the part up or down in semitones without changing how long it lasts, so it can be moved into the key of the piece.

When a track is pitched, a Keep voice switch appears beside Pitch, and like Pitch it applies to the whole track. Leave it off and the whole voice moves with the pitch, which is the chipmunk or giant sound. Turn it on and the singer's own character stays where it is while only the notes move, so a voice shifted up several semitones still sounds like a person. It costs a little extra time to prepare, which is why it is a choice rather than always on, and it only appears while the track is actually pitched.

To speed a clip up or slow it down gradually — a ramp rather than one steady speed — draw its speed curve (see Draw a curve over any setting). A curve you drew on a clip stays where you drew it when you change the clip's steady speed.

Speed and pitch are prepared once and then played back, so the first move of either takes a moment to render before you hear it.

Where you can use a track

• Audio

A track from a song someone has posted can come into yours: in the audio editor's Add menu, press Import, then Starred and community, and pick a track. It lands as a new track of its own, bringing every sound it plays.

What you can do with a track you made

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Track

• Volume — How loud this track is in the mix, before its pan.
• Pan — Where this track sits from left to right.
• Pitch — How far this whole track is transposed, in semitones up or down, on every one of its pieces.
• Keep voice — Whether a transposed voice keeps the shape of the voice that sang it, so it sounds like the same person higher or lower.