Tracks are at the heart of a DAW. Tracks are made up of regions, which can either be recorded digital audio or MIDI data. Tracks are shown in your DAWs arrange view. It's easy to look at collection of tracks like the score for a piece of music. Each instrument takes a strip of horizontal space on the page. You stack multiple instruments on top of one another to create a score. In a DAW, each track takes up its own horizontal strip, with regions populating each track. You can stack multiple tracks and they play from left to right, moving past a point on the page, similar to a tape moving past a playhead on an analog tape machine. Figure 12-1 shows an arrange page with several tracks. Let's look more closely at the two types of tracks.

Figure 12-1: Multiple tracks in Pro Tools