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Section : Playing one of the demo songs
This section will walk you through opening one of the demo songs and playing it. This
will give you a chance to test that everything is working as it should be. You will also learn
a little about Tracktion’s projects page, and will become familiar with the concepts of
projects, items, and edits.
To get started, switch to the projects page (Fig. 2-1) by clicking on the projects tab at the
top left-hand corner of the Tracktion window.
Figure 2-1
There are two main parts to this page. On the left there is the projects list, and on the
right there is the items list.
A project can be thought of as a container for a complete song. It will always consist of at
least one arrangement, or version of the song, referred to as an edit in Tracktion. In addition,
it may contain audio recordings, MIDI files, and movie files.
Collectively, these project contents are referred to as items, and it is these items that are
shown in the items list on the right hand side of the projects page.
Note: The projects page is an extremely powerful aspect of Tracktion. It can greatly ease
the task of organizing your work, and offers many tools for making backups, finding lost
material, and charting changes to a project over time. If you would like to learn more, the
reference manual covers the projects page in detail.
When Tracktion is first run, the projects list will contain two folders. The first of these
is called the active projects folder. We’ll be looking at this folder in more detail below. The
second
folder, the library projects folder, is a special folder that is used to store resources
that may be shared between projects.
You’ll notice that the active projects folder already contains a number of entries. These
are the demo songs that are included with Tracktion. In time, your own projects will be
listed here too.
To open one of the demo songs, click on the project entry in the projects list. Notice how
the items list updates to show the contents of the selected project.
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