Instruction Manual

188 Controlling Playback
Track-by-Track Playback
• Select all tracks, and then use the Tracks-Solo command.
Inverting the Phase of a Track
A waveform’s exact opposite is called an inversion. It is a shift of 180
degrees. A waveform and its inversion cancel each other out completely, so
it is usually not desirable to have two track recordings of the same source if
one is phase inverted. It can lead to reduced volume, lowered or distorted
response in certain frequencies, or even silence in the case of two tracks
which are exactly identical (i.e. cloned tracks).
Occasionally, for example when recording a source using two microphones,
one of the microphones may be recording an inversion of the other, the
resulting tracks may, to some degree, be cancelling each other out.
SONAR allows you to invert the phase of a track to match another.
To Invert the Phase of a Track
1. Open the Track view or Console view.
2. In the track you want to invert the phase, click the phase inversion
button .
Changing Tracks’ Mono/Stereo Status
SONAR has a mono/stereo button in each track module in the Track and
Console views. The buttons in the track modules force each track to play in
either stereo or mono, but preserve the tracks’ pan positions in the stereo
mix.
The Mono/Stereo button in each track forces the track’s audio signal to
enter any patched plug-ins as either mono or stereo, whether or not the
tracks are mono or stereo. This allows you to use either mono effects on a
stereo track or stereo effects on a mono track.
Note: You may lose important stereo data by using mono effects with
stereo tracks because your stereo tracks are summed to mono in order to
pass through the effect. If you never want your stereo data to be summed to
mono, select stereo.
To Use a Track’s Stereo/Mono Button
1. Display the Track view or Console view.
2. In the track you want to force to either mono or stereo for processing
effects, click the Stereo/Mono button to the desired position:
• Speaker icon pointing left—This choice means that you manually
selected mono for this track.