basics
Linking tracks
Hold one track key and press up to three others to link them; whatever you play on the held (primary) track then drives every linked track, which is how you layer sounds.
Linking is the layering tool: hold and press , and a bass line played on track 3 also sounds through track 4's synth, each track keeping its own sound and settings.
How to
Link tracks so that one track plays several
- 1 keep the first key held and press up to three more track keys
The held track is the primary; playing it also plays the linked tracks.
Details
- TE’s guide
To link tracks, keep one track key held and press the keys of the tracks to join it; four tracks at most can be linked.
- TE’s guide
The track whose key you held becomes the primary track, and playing or sequencing it controls all linked tracks.
- TE’s guide
A linked track still plays on its own when you select it directly rather than the primary track.
- TE’s changelog
Pitchbend from the primary track reaches the linked tracks.
- TE’s changelog
Arpeggiator notes are not passed on to linked tracks.
- TE’s changelog
OS 1.1.15 reworked how octave offsets behave on linked tracks; the changelog gives no details.
- worked out
The guide does not describe how to undo a link.
- TE’s guide
Linking tracks is unrelated to sound link in arrange, which keeps one sound across a track's patterns.