Playhead Tracking
Playhead tracking pins the playhead to the horizontal centre of the workspace. Instead of the playhead travelling across a fixed view, the view travels under a fixed playhead.
Turning it on
The toggle is in the right-hand group of the top bar, between Reset View and the settings gear — not next to the transport, which is on the left.
Click it and the workspace immediately recentres on the playhead, whether or not anything is playing. It is not a playback-only mode.
It starts off every session. Tracking is never saved — a reload comes back with it off, even though your scale, theme and volume are restored.
What changes while tracking is on
| Tracking off | Tracking on | |
|---|---|---|
| Horizontal pan | Free | Locked — at all times, playing or not |
| Vertical pan | Free | Free |
| Zoom | Anchored under the pointer / pinch centre | Anchored to the horizontal centre of the view |
| Reset View | Works | Disabled (dimmed, tooltip Reset disabled while tracking) |
| Changing the horizontal scale | Keeps the time under the screen centre fixed | Keeps the playhead centred |
Two of these surprise people:
Horizontal panning is locked the whole time, not only during playback. With tracking on and the transport stopped, dragging sideways does nothing. Vertical dragging still works, so you can still move through the frequency axis.
Zoom stops following your cursor. With the horizontal axis locked, zooming is anchored to the middle of the viewport instead of the point under the pointer, so the view cannot drift sideways out from under the playhead. On touch, pinch-zoom re-centres the same way and one-finger panning becomes vertical-only.
Turning it off
Unchecking the toggle releases the lock and hands the view back to you. Your previous view is not restored — the workspace stays exactly where tracking left it. If you want to get back to the BaseNote, use Reset View, which becomes available again.
Using it
Turn tracking on to listen through a piece that is wider than the screen, and off to stay parked on one section while you work. You can toggle it mid-playback, as often as you like, without stopping the audio.
Because the playhead is always centred, the right half of the screen is the near future: you see notes approach before you hear them.
See Transport Controls for playback itself, including how to move the playhead by clicking the workspace background.