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href=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/arranging-tracks/>Arranging tracks</a></li><li data-nav-id=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/setting-up-the-meter/ title="Setting up the meter" class=dd-item><a href=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/setting-up-the-meter/>Setting up the meter</a></li><li data-nav-id=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/using-ranges/ title="Using ranges" class=dd-item><a href=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/using-ranges/>Using ranges</a></li><li data-nav-id=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/working-with-regions/ title="Working with regions" class=dd-item><a href=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/working-with-regions/>Working with regions</a></li><li data-nav-id=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/further-region-operations/ title="Further region operations" class=dd-item><a href=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/further-region-operations/>Further region operations</a></li><li data-nav-id=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/changing-edit-modes/ title="Changing edit modes" class=dd-item><a href=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/changing-edit-modes/>Changing edit modes</a></li><li data-nav-id=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/creating-looped-sections/ title="Creating looped sections" class=dd-item><a href=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/creating-looped-sections/>Creating looped sections</a></li><li data-nav-id=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/stretching-shrinking-regions/ title="Stretching & shrinking regions" class=dd-item><a href=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/stretching-shrinking-regions/>Stretching & shrinking regions</a></li></ul></li><li data-nav-id=/ardour-tutorial/en/mixing-sessions/ title="Mixing sessions" class=dd-item><a href=/ardour-tutorial/en/mixing-sessions/><b>5. </b>Mixing sessions</a><ul><li data-nav-id=/ardour-tutorial/en/mixing-sessions/the-mixer-strip/ title="The mixer strip" class=dd-item><a 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<span class=links><a href=/ardour-tutorial/en/>Home</a> > <a href=/ardour-tutorial/en/starting-sessions/>Starting sessions</a> > Creating a track or a bus</span></div><div class=progress><div class=wrapper><nav id=TableOfContents><ul><li><a href=#what-is-an-audio-track>What is an Audio Track?</a></li><li><a href=#what-is-a-bus>What is a Bus?</a></li><li><a href=#how-are-tracks-and-busses-used>How are Tracks and Busses Used?</a></li><li><a href=#adding-tracks-and-busses>Adding Tracks and Busses</a></li><li><a href=#continuing>Continuing</a></li></ul></nav></div></div></div></div><div id=head-tags></div><div id=body-inner><h1>Creating a track or a bus</h1><h2 id=what-is-an-audio-track>What is an Audio Track?</h2><p>An <strong>Audio</strong> <strong>Track</strong> is a place where you can drag a <strong>Region</strong>
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from your <strong>Region List</strong> and where you can record sounds coming from an
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outside source.</p><p>A Region represents an audio clip, i.e., one of your
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sound files or just a portion of a sound file. In the image below, the
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horizontal strip areas marked “<em>MyTrack</em>” and “<em>short-drone-mono</em>” are Tracks.
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The rectangles containing audio information are called Regions (for example, the Region “<em>wheels-mono.1</em>” is contained within <em>MyTrack</em>).</p><p><img src=en/Ardour6_Tracks.png alt=Tracks></p><h2 id=what-is-a-bus>What is a Bus?</h2><p>A <strong>Bus</strong> is similar to a track except that it does not contain its own
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regions. You cannot record directly into a bus or drag regions into it.
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The area marked “<em>Master</em>” in your session is an example of a Bus. Typically every
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session has a <strong>Master Bus</strong>. All the audio to be <strong>Exported</strong> from
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your Session will be sent to the Master Bus.</p><h2 id=how-are-tracks-and-busses-used>How are Tracks and Busses Used?</h2><p>Audio-processing <strong>Plugins</strong> and <strong>Automation</strong> can be applied to both
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Tracks and Busses.</p><p>Audio tracks can be routed to Busses. In fact, many Tracks can be
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simultaneously routed to one Bus. Busses are traditionally used as a
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convenient way to apply any kind of signal processing to many Tracks at
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once. For instance, you might find it useful to route all Tracks that
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contain drum sounds to a single Bus that you would call ‘<em>drum bus</em>’.
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Then, if you decide that all your drum Tracks are too loud, you can
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quickly adjust the level of the ‘<em>drum bus</em>’ rather than adjusting each
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separate Track that feeds into it.</p><p>Another use of a Bus would be to have a common <strong>Reverberation</strong> Plugin,
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so that any audio Track which requires the Reverb effect could be routed
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to a single Bus.</p><h2 id=adding-tracks-and-busses>Adding Tracks and Busses</h2><p>Right-Click in the empty area beneath any existing Tracks and Busses.
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Alternatively, click on the menu <em>Track > Add Track, Bus, or VCA…</em> (shortcut
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“<em>Ctrl</em>” + “<em>Shift</em>” + “<em>N</em>”). The following window will appear:</p><p><img src=en/Ardour6_Add_Track_or_Bus.png alt="Add Track"></p><p><strong>Add</strong> lets you specify how many Tracks (or Busses) you would to like
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to create.</p><p>Choose <strong>Audio Tracks</strong> or <strong>Audio Busses</strong> to specify whether you want to
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create Tracks or Busses. There are also other options such as <strong>MIDI Track</strong> and more. Ardour offers different track types depending on the type of data they contain. This tutorial will only
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cover Audio Tracks and Busses. (see the <a href=http://manual.ardour.org/working-with-tracks/track-types/>Ardour
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Manual</a> for
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details on all track types)</p><p>You can optionally give a <strong>Name</strong> to the Track or Bus being created.
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The <strong>Configuration</strong> drop-down menu allows you to specify how many
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channels of audio you’d like the new Track or Bus to handle. For
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example, if you will be recording your voice on this track using a
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single microphone, choose <strong>Mono</strong>. If you plan to import a clip from an
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existing song and place it on this Track, choose <strong>Stereo</strong>. The choice
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made here will also affect which Plugins you can use on the track (Mono
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tracks cannot use Stereo Plugins and vice versa).</p><p>The <strong>Position</strong> menu lets you choose where you want the new track or bus to be placed: first, last, before or after the selection.</p><p>You can safely ignore the other options for now. To learn more about each of them, please check <a href=http://manual.ardour.org/working-with-tracks/adding-tracks-and-busses/>this page of the complete Ardour
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Manual</a>.</p><p>Click the <strong>Add and Close</strong> button to create the Tracks or Busses you
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have just configured, and automatically close the Add Track window. The tracks you just created will appear as new rows in the <strong>Main Canvas</strong>. If you still wanted to add more tracks after this step, you could alternatively have chosen <strong>Add selected items (and leave dialog open)</strong> instead.</p><h2 id=continuing>Continuing</h2><p>Once you’ve added one or more Tracks, you will want to put some audio
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material into them to work with. Continue on to the <strong>Importing Audio</strong>
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