Types de piste#

Zrythm has the following types of Tracks.

Track types and characteristics#
Track type	Entrée	Sortie	Can record	Objects
Audio	Audio	Audio	Oui	Audio regions
Effet audio	Audio	Audio	Non	Aucun
Groupe audio	Audio	Audio	Non	Aucun
Accord	MIDI	MIDI	Oui	Chord regions, scales
Dossier	Aucun	Aucun	Non	Aucun
Instrument	MIDI	Audio	Oui	MIDI regions
Marqueur	Aucun	Aucun	Non	Marqueurs
Master	Audio	Audio	Non	Aucun
Modulateurs	Aucun	Aucun	Non	Aucun
MIDI	MIDI	MIDI	Oui	MIDI regions
Effet MIDI	MIDI	MIDI	Non	Aucun
Groupe MIDI	MIDI	MIDI	Non	Aucun
Tempo	Aucun	Aucun	Non	Aucun

All tracks types except Chord and Folder tracks have automation lanes available.

Audio Track#

Une piste audio contient des régions audio et peut être utilisée pour l’enregistrement et la lecture de clips audio.

Audio FX Track#

Audio FX tracks can be used for effects by sending audio signals to them with Envois auxiliaires.

A common use case is to create a separate Audio FX track with a reverb plugin and to send audio from another track to it. This way, the reverb signal can be managed separately from its source, or even be shared among several tracks.

Audio Group Track#

Les pistes de groupe audio peuvent être utilisées pour regrouper ensemble des signaux audio par routage direct. Par exemple, les coups de grosse caisse, les caisses claires et les charleystons peuvent être routés vers une piste de groupe audio « Batterie » afin que vous puissiez ajouter des effets et contrôler leur volume collectivement plutôt que séparément.

Indication

Group tracks are foldable.

Piste d’accord#

The Chord Track contains chord and scale objects that are used to specify when the song is using a particular chord or scale. Its main purpose is to assist with chord progressions.

../_images/chord-track.png — Chord track with a chord region and a scale#

For more information about chords, see the section Accords et gammes.

For editing chords inside chord regions, see Éditeur d’accords.

Audition en direct#

You can route the output of the chord track to a MIDI or Instrument track for live auditioning of the chord track’s events. You can also play the chords live with a MIDI keyboard.

Folder Track#

Folder tracks are used to organize tracks.

Moving/Copying Tracks Into a Foldable Track#

To move (or copy by holding Control) tracks inside folder (or foldable) tracks, simply select the tracks you want and drag-and-drop them inside the folder track. While dragging one or more tracks into a folder track, a line is shown to indicate where the tracks will be dropped. Dropping the tracks in the middle of a Folder track (orange line shown in the middle) will insert the tracks into the folder track as children.

../_images/moving-tracks-inside-folder.png — Moving tracks inside a folder track#

Note

Dropping the tracks above (or below) the folder track will cause the tracks to simply be moved above (or below) the folder track and NOT inside it.

Folding/Unfolding#

Clicking the folder button will hide and expand the folder track’s children.

Astuce

Audio/MIDI group tracks are also foldable.

Instrument Track#

The instrument track is used for synths and other instruments. Instrument tracks contain a special instrument slot in the mixer that will get processed after the MIDI FX section and before the Inserts section.

Instrument tracks are similar to MIDI tracks, except that they produce audio instead of MIDI.

Show/Hide Plugin UI#

Instrument tracks contain a button (computer screen icon) that allows showing/hiding the instrument plugin’s UI.

Piste de marqueur#

The marker track holds song markers - either custom or pre-defined ones - that make it easier to jump to or to export specific sections of the song. Each project can only have one marker track and it cannot be deleted (but can be hidden).

../_images/marker-track.png — Marker track with 2 markers#

Piste Master#

The master track is a special type of Audio Group Track that Zrythm uses to route the resulting audio signal after all the processing is done to the audio backend.

../_images/master-track.png — Master track#

Modulator Track#

The modulator track is a special track that is used for global modulators like LFOs and macro knobs that can be assigned to any automatable control inside Zrythm.

For more details, see Modulateurs.

Piste MIDI#

A MIDI track contains MIDI regions and its purpose is playing back MIDI events and routing those MIDI signals to other instruments (including external instruments and hardware).

Les pistes MIDI, contrairement aux pistes d’instruments, produisent une sortie MIDI et donc leurs tranches de canal n’auront que des effets MIDI (greffons qui modifient les signaux MIDI).

MIDI tracks also have automation lanes for automating various parameters.

../_images/midi-track.png — MIDI track with a MIDI region#

MIDI FX Track#

MIDI FX tracks can be used for MIDI effects by sending MIDI signals to them using Envois auxiliaires.

MIDI Group Track#

These are similar to Audio Group tracks, except that they act on MIDI signals instead of audio signals.

Indication

Group tracks are foldable.

Tempo Track#

The tempo track is a special track that allows automating the BPM and time signature.

Avertissement

BPM and time signature automation is currently experimental. Projects using this functionality may break. Only use it at your own risk.