Transport Toolbar




 * Transport Toolbar has buttons for controlling playback and recording and for moving to the project start or end.
 * These buttons can also be controlled with keyboard shortcuts.
 * [[Image:Control001.png|Transport Toolbar showing default "ergonomic" layout of buttons, annotated]]

[[Image:Pause.png|The Pause button]] Pause  Transport > Pause or P
Temporarily pauses playing or recording without losing your place. Click Pause a second time to resume.

[[Image:Play.png|The Play button]] Play  Transport > Play/Stop or
If an area of track is selected, only that selection will be played. Otherwise, playback begins wherever the editing cursor is.
 * To loop-play (play the track or selection over and over until you stop), hold down while clicking Play. This causes the button image to change to loop-play [[Image:Loop.png|The Loop Play button]]. You can use the  shortcut to start loop-play instead.
 * To cut-play (play audio either side of a selection to preview what deleting the selection will sound like), hold down  (or  on a Mac computer) while clicking Play. You can use the  shortcut to preview the cut instead.
 * You can press Play when there is already playback or when playback is paused to restart playback immediately from the editing cursor or selection.

[[Image:Stop.png|The Stop button]] Stop  Transport > Play/Stop or
Stops playing or recording immediately, and releases Pause if depressed. You must stop playback or recording before you can use the "Skip" buttons below and before you can edit any audio.

[[Image:Rewind.png|The Skip to Start button]] Skip to Start  Transport > Skip to Start or HOME
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.

[[Image:FFwd.png|The Skip to End button]] Skip to End  Transport > Skip to End or END
Move the cursor to the end of the project.

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

[[Image:Record.png|The Record button]] Record  Transport > Record or R
Clicking Record or using the shortcut always begins recording in a new track at either the current cursor position or at the beginning of the current selection.

Alternative button order
The default "ergonomic" order of buttons on the Transport Toolbar can be unchecked in Interface Preferences to give this alternative order:
 * [[Image:Alternate_control_toolbar_basic7.png|Transport Toolbar showing optional layout of buttons]]