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-title: Layering Display
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-<img class="right" style="clear:both" src="/images/track-layer-dialog.png"
-alt="Track layering menu" />
-<p>
- Ardour allows arbitrary <dfn>layering</dfn> of regions — you can
- have as many regions you wish at a given position. By default, the regions are
- <dfn>overlaid</dfn> in the editor window, to save vertical space.
-</p>
-<p>
- However, this display mode can be confusing for tracks with many overdubs,
- because its not obvious in which order the overdubs are layered. Although
- there are other methods of moving particular regions to the top of an
- overlapping set, and although Ardour also has playlists to let you manage
- <a href="/working-with-playlists/playlist_usecases/">takes</a> a bit more
- efficiently than just continually layering,
- there are times when being able to clearly see all regions in a track without
- any overlaps is reassuring and useful.
-</p>
-<p>
- Here is an image of a track with a rather drastic overdub situation,
- viewed in normal <dfn>overlaid mode</dfn>:
-</p>
-<img src="/images/a3_overlaps_layered.png" alt="overlapping regions in overlaid mode" />
-<p>
- To change this display, right click on the track header, and you'll see
- the menu displayed above. There are two choices for layers. <kbd
- class="menu">overlaid</kbd> is currently selected. Click on <kbd
- class="menu">stacked</kbd> and the track display changes to this:
-</p>
-<img src="/images/a3_layers_stacked.png" alt="overlapping regions in stacked mode" />
-<p>
- You can still move regions around as usual, and in fact you can
- even drag them so that they overlay each again, but when you
- release the mouse button, things will flip back to them all being
- stacked cleanly. The number of <dfn>lanes</dfn> for the track is determined by
- the maximum number of regions existing in any one spot throughout
- the track, so if you have really stacked up 10 overdubs in one spot,
- you'll end up with 10 lanes. Obviously, using a large track height
- works much better for this than a small one.
-</p>
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