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Tracks Panel

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The Tracks panel on the right lists every instrument in the song and lets you mute, solo, hide and reorder them while you play. Nothing you change here is saved to the file, so experiment freely; to keep a setup, use the MIDI Playback Editor.

IMAGE · play-tracks-panel.png · 900 × 1000 px · The Tracks panel with several tracks in two or three instrument groups, one muted, one soloed, one hidden, colour lines pulsing, and the icon rail on its left edge.

Open and close the panel

The panel opens by itself when you load a song. Close it with the arrow at its edge; when closed, click the  Tracks panel icon to bring it back. To keep it out of the way while you play, turn on Close panels on playback in Settings → Practice.

Track controls

Each track shows its colour line, instrument name, track number, MIDI channel and instrument program, plus four buttons:

Button

What it does

M Mute

Silences the track. Its notes still fall on the roll.

S Solo

Plays only this track, and any others set to solo.

 Show in roll

Hides or shows the track’s notes on the piano roll. The track keeps playing.

 Lit on keyboard

Chooses whether the track’s notes light up the keyboard. On by default for piano and keys tracks.

During playback each track’s colour line works as a small level meter, rising with the notes it plays, so you can see which instruments are sounding without opening the mixer. Turn this off with Track color VU meters in Settings → Editing.

Instrument groups and order

  • Tracks are grouped by instrument family: piano, strings, brass, drums and so on. Click a group header to collapse or expand it.
  • Mute or unmute a whole group with its header button.
  • Drag a group or a track by its handle to change the order. The piano group always stays at the top.

Panel header buttons

Button

What it does

 Hide all / Show all

Clears every track off the piano roll in one click, so you can bring back only the ones you want to study. Stays in sync with the same button in the  Console Mixer.

Focus

Switches between all tracks and piano, bass and drums only. See Focus Mode.

The icon rail

The narrow strip along the panel’s edge opens the editing tools:

  •  MIDI Playback Editor: keep, rename, recolour, merge and split tracks, and save a new version.
  •  MIDI Note Editor: edit single notes on the roll. Turn it on first in Settings → Editing.
  •  Console Mixer: volume, pan and effects per track. Shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+M.

 Use case: play the melody yourself

Mute the melody track but keep it shown on the roll, then play it on your own keyboard while the rest of the band plays along.