Tracks Menu: Add New - Audacity Manual

# Tracks Menu: Add New

From Audacity Development Manual
This submenu adds new tracks in your project.

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There are five kinds of track:

- Mono Tracks
- Stereo Tracks

These two can be in waveform or spectrogram view.

- Label Tracks - for annotating audio
- Time Tracks - for time warping the audio
- Note Tracks - created by importing MIDI, and not from this menu.

## Mono Track Ctrl + Shift + N Extra

Creates a new, empty mono audio track. This command is rarely needed, since importing, recording and mixing automatically create new tracks as needed. But you can use this to cut or copy data from an existing track and paste it into an empty track.

## Stereo Track

Creates a new, empty stereo Audio Track. You may need this if you start with a set of mono tracks and want to export a stereo mix.

## Label Track

Creates a new, empty Label Track. Labels can be used for textual annotation and are commonly used when exporting multiple files from a single track.

| If you turn on Typing Creates New Labels in Tracks Behaviors preferences (it is "off" by default), then when a label track has the yellow focus border you can create a label at the cursor position or selection just by typing.

## Time Track

Creates a Time Track that can progressively increase or decrease playback speed (and pitch) of all audio tracks in the project. The range of possible speed warp is set in the Set Range (upper and lower) option in the Time Track dropdown menu to left of the track. The amount of and direction of warping within that range is controlled using Envelope Tool.

## Note Tracks

Note Tracks are created by importing MIDI, for example, and not from this menu.

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