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Transport bar/controls
Transport bar or transport controls are the play, stop, record, and navigation controls in a DAW.
Also called: Transport bar
Level relevance: introduced at Nat 4; tagged for every later level where the same concept remains useful.
Explanation
Transport controls are used constantly during recording, editing, playback, looping, and checking sections of a project.
Topics
DAWPlaybackRecording
Curriculum statusofficial concept
Review statusdraft
Sources
- National 5 Music Technology course specification, May 2023, version 3.0 · accessed 2026-07-08
Used for the National 3, National 4, and National 5 technology and music concept tables.