Working with Multiple Tracks: Muting and Linking Tracks

Using Mute feature

Sometimes you may want to mute (turn off) particular sound on one or more tracks with those tracks still active. In MySoundStudio, you can temporarily turn off the sound on active track (s) by using the Mute button control.

  1. Open the file 3track.dgs located in the Tutorial folder.

  2. Drag on the Time Ruler to create a waveform selection as shown below.
    Dragged range of waveforms on all tracks is selected.



  3. Click the Track Number display area for Track 2.
    The waveform data on the Track 2 is deselected.



  4. At this point, choose Control - Play to make sure that you can hear currently waveform selection only.

  5. Next, click the Mute button for Track 3 and play the file again.



    Notice that you can hear neither Track 2 nor Track 3 this time.

To turn off mute mode, click the Mute button for each of muted tracks (the appearance of the button will change from pressed to non-pressed state). Click the Mute button toggles mute on/off mode.

Using the Offset Bar and Volume Control with the Group feature

Sometimes you may want to make changes to all tracks with maintaining the relationship among multiple tracks. For example, you may want to do so when you move the waveforms or adjust sound volume on stereo tracks.
In such case, the Group feature comes in handy.

  1. Open the file 1st1mono.dgs located in the Tutorial folder.

  2. On the Mixer Control window, make sure that the Group Member indicator for Track 1 and Track 2 are both lighted. With this mark lighted, the corresponding tracks (Track 1 and Track 2 in this example) are grouped.



  3. Make sure that the Group On/Off button reads ON.



  4. Drag the Volume Control slider for Track 1 to the right to turn down the volume.
    Notice that the Volume Control slider for Track 2 also moves to the same value.


  5. Next, drag the offset bar for Track 1 to shift the start position of waveform to the right.
    Notice that the offset bar for Track 2 also moves by same amount you drag Track 1.


A stereo sound data consists of a pair of tracks (left and right channels) to form stereo space. If there is a gap between play start timing of left and right channels, the audio will not play in sync. It is a good idea to group left and right channels when you work with stereo files to avoid such problem. If you accidentally have moved the offset of either track, adjust the offset value in the Property dialog box.