--- title: The Transport Menu ---

The Transport menu handles how Ardour handles the playback and playhead.

Start/Stop: Starts or stops the playhead, and recording if it's armed
Play
Play Selection: Only plays the selected part of the session, be it a range or selected regions
Play Selection w/Preroll: As the previous menu, except it starts the playback 1/2 bar before the beginning of the selection
Start/Continue/Stop: FIXME
Play from Edit Point and Return: Starts the playback at the Edit point, and when stopped, goes back to the orginial location
Play Loop Range: If a Loop range is defined, play it and loop until stopped
Start Recording: This is a shortcut to trigger the global recording, and start playback at once
Stop and Forget Capture: Stops the recording, removes the newly created material, and goes back to the original position
Enable Record: Triggers the global recording. Next time "Play" is pressed, it will record on the track(s) that are armed for recording
Set Loop from Selection: Converts the selection into a Loop range by placing loop markers at the start and end of the selected range
Set Punch from Selection: Same thing, for Punch
Set Session Start/End from Selection: Same thing, for the start and end markers of the session, defining the sessions length
Forward: FIXME
Rewind: Plays the audio backwards from the playhead on
Transition to Roll: FIXME
Transition to Reverse: FIXME
Playhead
Playhead to Mouse: Set the position of the playhead at the current position of the mouse cursor
Playhead to Active Mark: If a marker is selected, set the position of the playhead at the position of the marker
Center Playhead: Centers the view on the playhead without changing the zoom level (putting the playhead in the middle of the screen)
Nudge Playhead Forward: Shifts the position of the playhead to the right by the amount shown in the nudge timer
Nudge Playhead Backward: Same thing, to the left
Move to Next Transient: When transient have been set, moves the playhead to the next one to the right
Move to Previous Transient: Same, to the left
Playhead to Next Grid: Regardless of the state of the Grid Mode, goes to the next grid to the right, as set by the Snap/Grid unit
Playhead to Previous Grid: Same, to the left
Playhead to Next Region Boundary: Moves the playhead to the right to the next beginning or end of region on the selected track or, if no track is selected, on all tracks
Playhead to Previous Region Boundary: Same, to the left
Playhead to Next Region Boundary (No Track Selection): Moves the playhead to next beginning or end of region, be it on the selected track or any other
Playhead to Previous Region Boundary (No Track Selection): Same, to the left
Playhead to Next Region Sync: Moves the playhead to next Region Sync Point, that is by default the beginning of a region but can be moved
Playhead to Previous Region Sync: Same, to the left
Jump to Next Mark: moves the playhead to the next marker on the Ruler
Jump to Previous Mark: Same, to the left
Go to Zero: Sends the playhead to the 00:00:00:00 time, regardless of the sessions Start marker
Go to Start: Sends the playhead to the Start marker of the session
Go to End: Sends the playhead to the End marker of the session
Go to Wall Clock: Sends the playhead to the current value of system time, as shown on the top right of the Status bar
Active Mark
To Next Region Boundary: Moves the currently selected marker to the next region beginning or end
To Previous Region Boundary: Same, to the left
To Next Region Sync: Moves the currently selected to the next region sync point (by default : beginning or end of the region)
To Previous Region Sync: Same, to the left
Markers
Add Mark from Playhead: Creates a Marker at he position of the playhead
Remove Mark at Playhead: Removes any marker at the position of the playhead
Toggle Mark at Playhead: Combine the 2 previous : if a marker exists, deletes it, otherwise create it
Locate to Mark n: If it exists, goes to the n-th marker
Set Session Start from Playhead: Puts the Start of the session marker at the playhead's position
Set Session End from Playhead: Puts the End of the session marker at the playhead's position
[] Time Master: Sets Ardour as the Time master, i.e. Ardour sends the time information to the audio system
[] Punch In/Out: Based on the Punch in and Punch out markers if they exist, tells Ardour to record only between those two points
[] Punch In: Based on the Punch in marker, only allow to record from this point on
[] Punch Out: Based on the Punch out marker, forbids recording before this point
[] Audio Input: If checked, automatically switch the monitor from input to playbackmode when playing
[] Follow Edits: If checked, selecting a region moves the playhead to its beginning
[] Auto Play: If checked, moving the playhead in the ruler starts the playback
[] Auto Return: If checked, when the playback is stopped, go back to the previous position of the playhead. If not, the playhead stays where it is when the playback is stopped
[] Click: Activates/desactivates the click track (metronome)
[] Follow Playhead: If checked, while playing, when the playhead reaches the right of the screen, Ardour scrolls one screen to the right to keep the playhead visible at all times
[] Stationary Playhead: If checked and if Follow playhead is checked, on playback, the playhead stays at the center of the screen, and the session scrolls
Panic: Immediately stops all MIDI playback (usefull e.g. when a MIDI bug in encountered)