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About tracks

Tracks give you a way to organize your music, and control the sound of the instruments in a project. Tracks are where you record Real and Software Instruments, where you drag loops to add them to your project, and where you arrange regions in the timeline.

Each track has a track header (in the Tracks column), which contains the instrument name and icon, Mute and Solo buttons for the track, and a triangle to show and hide the track’s volume curve. Each track also has a pan control, a volume slider, and a pair of level meters in the track mixer.

GarageBand projects can have two kinds of tracks:

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