Instruction Manual

256 Recording
Input Monitoring
• The R button in each armed track turns red.
• The Clips pane next to each armed track gets a reddish hue.
• The R button in the Playback State toolbar is depressed (to display the
toolbar, use the Views-Toolbars-Playback State command).
• The Status bar displays the red Arm message.
While you’re recording, SONAR displays these cues:
• Audio tracks display a waveform preview in the area in the Clips pane
where you’re recording. This is actually a visual record of the record
meter’s progress. When you stop recording, SONAR displays the
actual waveform, which is slightly different from the preview. The
preview is a snapshot taken at certain time intervals, while the actual
waveform represents all the data that is recorded.
• MIDI tracks display the actual data that they record, both in the Clips
pane and the Piano Roll view (not the Staff view).
• Automation envelopes and nodes are drawn in real time as the
automation data is being recorded.
If you want to turn off the real-time display of audio clips, see the following
procedure.
To Turn Off Waveform Preview for Audio Recording
1. Use the Options-Global command to open the Global Options dialog.
2. On the General tab, uncheck the Display Waveform Preview While
Recording option, and click OK.
Now when you record audio tracks, a red swath appears in the Clips pane
in the area you’re recording.
Input Monitoring
Being able to hear plug-in audio effects applied to a live signal is an exciting
feature of SONAR. However, there are two issues that users commonly
stumble upon when using the input monitoring feature. The first is that the
monitored signal seems to have an echo associated with it. The second is
that live input monitoring can lead to nasty feedback problems, particularly
if you have an outboard audio mixer, or you record from a different sound
card from the one you are playing back with.
SONAR has several buttons to control input monitoring:
• Per-track Input Echo button —each audio track has an Input Echo