Tracks and clips

The concept of tracks and clips

A track contains some clips. When playing the song, each activated track will be played/processed their clips according to the playhead position.

The position is equal to the global playback position if the track is in the song container. For tracks in the pattern container, please refer to the relevant section.

Track types supported by LMMS

Track::TrackTypes defines the type of tracks. EventTrack and VideoTrack are not supported yet.

• Instrument track(InstrumentTrack): Tracks for playing MIDI note clips(Patterns) with software instruments(Instruments).

• Pattern track(PatternTrack): Tracks for looping various patterns

• Sample track(SampleTrack): Tracks for playing sample clips

• Automation track(AutomationTrack): Tracks for automating several controls

• Hidden automation track(HiddenAutomationTrack): Tracks for the (being deprecated)global automation feature.