title: The Editor
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-<figure class="right">
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- <img src="/images/editor_split.png" alt="Ardour's editor window">
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+<figure>
+ <img src="/images/detailed-editor-window.png" alt="Ardour's editor window">
<figcaption>
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- <ol class="multicol3">
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- <li>Main menu</li>
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- <li>Status bar</li>
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- <li>Transport bar & Times</li>
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-</ol><ol class="multicol3" start="4">
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- <li>Mode switch</li>
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- <li>The <dfn>Editor</dfn> window</li>
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- <li>a track's mixer strip</li>
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-</ol><ol class="multicol3" start="7">
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- <li>Editors List</li>
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+ <ol class="multicol4">
+ <li>Toolbar</li>
+ <li>Rulers</li>
+</ol><ol class="multicol4" start="3">
+ <li>Editor's List</li>
+ <li>a Mixer strip</li>
+</ol><ol class="multicol4" start="5">
+ <li>Summary</li>
+ <li>an audio track</li>
+ </ol>
+</ol><ol class="multicol4" start="7">
+ <li>a MIDI track</li>
+ <li>automation</li>
</ol>
</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<p>
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The <dfn>Editor</dfn> window includes the editor track <dfn>canvas</dfn>
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where you can arrange audio and MIDI data along a timeline. This is the
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window you will be in while editing and arranging a project. The window
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has a general "horizontal" sense to it: the timeline flows from left to
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right, the playhead showing the current position in the session moves
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from left to right — the window really represents <dfn>time</dfn>
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in a fairly literal way.
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</p>
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<p>
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It is possible to show a single channel strip in the editor window, and
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some people find this enough to work on mixing without actually opening
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the mixer window. Most of the time though, you will want both of these
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windows at various stages of a session's lifetime — sometimes
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you'll be focused on editing, sometimes on mixing and possibly some of
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the time on both.
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</p>
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<p>
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- This section is a description of the Editor window. To learn more about the
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- editing workflow, see <a href="/editing-and-arranging/">Editing and Arranging</a>.
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+ This section is a description of the different sections of the Editor window.
+ To learn more about the editing workflow, see <a href="/editing-and-arranging/">Editing and Arranging</a>.
</p>
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