The Tracks and Timings toolbar consists of four controls, two related to tracks and two related to timings:
The Tracks and Timings toolbar
The Track Button
Clicking on the Track and Timings toolbar's track button brings up a popup menu with various track-related items:
The track button's popup menu
Change Track Name
This menu item on the track button's popup menu can be used to change the name of the current track. For details, please see the Change Track Name menu item on the Edit menu.
Add New Track
This menu item on the track button's popup menu can be used to add a new track to the sequence. For details, please see the Add New Track menu item on the Edit menu.
Duplicate Track
This menu item on the track button's popup menu can be used to add a new track with all the same channels as the current track. For details, please see the Duplicate Track menu item on the Edit menu.
Delete Track
This menu item on the track button's popup menu can be used to delete the current track from the sequence. There must be at least one track in a sequence, so this menu item will be unavailable if there is only one track.
The Track Dropdown
The Tracks and Timings toolbar's track dropdown gives a list of the tracks in the sequence. It displays the currently active track; selecting another track from the dropdown makes that track active, and updates the display to show that track if it is not already being shown.
The Timings Button
Clicking on the Tracks and Timings toolbar's timings button brings up a popup menu with various timings-related items:
•Duplicate to New Freeform Grid
The timings button's popup menu
Change Timing Grid Name
This menu item on the timings button's popup menu can be used to change the name of the current timing grid. The main purpose of giving a timing grid a name is to make it easier to distinguish timing grids when they are listed in places such as the Tracks and Timings toolbar's timings dropdown.
Add New Fixed Grid
This menu item on the timings button's popup menu can be used to add a new fixed timing grid to the sequence. After you select this item, you will be asked to specify the length of time between timings - for example, to make the timings a quarter second apart, enter "0.25".
Add New Freeform Grid
This menu item on the timings button's popup menu can be used to add a new freeform timing grid to the sequence. After you select this item, you will be prompted to enter a name for the new timing grid.
Duplicate to New Freeform Grid
This menu item on the timings button's popup menu can be used to create a new freeform timing grid, initially populating it with the same timings as are in the current timing grid.
Note that this can be done regardless of whether the current timing grid is a freeform grid or a fixed grid.
Delete Timing Grid
This menu item on the timings button's popup menu can be used to delete the current timing grid from the sequence. Any tracks in the sequence that use this timing grid will automatically be switched to use some other timing grid from the sequence.
There must be at least one timing grid in a sequence, so this menu item will be unavailable if there is only one timing grid.
The Timings Dropdown
The Tracks and Timings toolbar's timings dropdown gives a list of the timing grids in the sequence. It displays the timing grid currently in use on the active track; selecting another timing grid from the dropdown changes the track to use that timing grid instead.