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Sound & Production

Track

The short version

One lane in your project holding one instrument or recording.

A little more

In a DAW every sound source gets its own track: a kick track, a vocal track, a bass track. Tracks have their own volume, pan and effects.

Why you'd careOrganising by track is what makes a mix controllable instead of a single blob of sound.
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