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The Editor window includes the editor track canvas where you can arrange audio and MIDI data along a timeline. This is the window you will be in while editing and arranging a project. The window has a general "horizontal" sense to it: the timeline flows from left to right, the playhead showing the current position in the session moves from left to right — the window really represents time in a fairly literal way.
It is possible to show a single channel strip in the editor window, and some people find this enough to work on mixing without actually opening the mixer window. Most of the time though, you will want both of these windows at various stages of a session's lifetime — sometimes you'll be focused on editing, sometimes on mixing and possibly some of the time on both.
This section is a description of the different sections of the Editor window. To learn more about the editing workflow, see Editing and Arranging.
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