title: Controlling Track Appearance
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- <p>Ardour offers many options for controlling the specific appearance of tracks, including color, height, waveform style and more.</p>
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-<h2>Global Options</h2>
-<p>These can all be found via <code>Edit > Preferences > Editor</code></p>
-<dl class="wide-table">
-<dt>Show meters on tracks in the editor</dt>
-<dd>By default, Ardour displays meters in the track header in the editor window. Disable this option to hide the meter.</dd>
-<dt>Show waveforms in regons</dt>
-<dd>By default, Ardour draws waveforms within audio regions. Disable this option hide the waveforms.</dd>
-<dt>Waveform scale</dt>
-<dd>
-<dl>
-<dt>Linear</dt>
-<dd></dd>
-<dt>Logarithmic</dt>
-<dd></dd>
-</dl>
-</dd>
-<dt>Waveform shape</dt>
-<dd>
-<dl>
-<dt>Traditional</dt>
-<dd>The "zero" line appears in the middle of the display and waveforms appear as positive and negative heights above <em>and</em> below a "zero" line</dd>
-<dt>Rectified</dt>
-<dd>The "zero" line appears at the bottom of the display and waveforms appear as absolute heights <em>above</em> the "zero" line</dd>
-</dl>
-</dd>
-</dl>
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+<p>
+ Ardour offers many options for controlling the appearance of tracks,
+ including color, height, waveform style and more.
+ These can all be found in the <kbd class="menu">Edit > Preferences >
+ Editor</kbd> menu.
+</p>
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