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Clip Muting and Isolating (Clip Soloing)

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2. Under the Recording Mode options, choose Sound on Sound (Blend).

3. Under Loop Recording, choose Store Takes in a Single Track, and click

OK.

4. Make sure that the armed track has its Show Layers option enabled.

5. Set your loop boundaries and start recording multiple passes through

the looped area.

6. Stop recording.

When you finish recording, SONAR displays all your takes in separate

layers in the recording track.

To Crop Overlapping Clips to Eliminate Overlap

1. In a multi-layer track, move either the Select tool or the Mute tool

between two overlapping clips until the cursor turns into the overlap

cropping tool.

A. Overlap cropping tool

2. In the space between the clips, click the spot where you want the first

clip to end and the second one to begin. SONAR crops both clips so

that they no longer overlap.

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Clip Muting and Isolating (Clip Soloing)

Together with multi-layer tracks, clip muting and isolating (clip soloing)

make it easy to build a composite take from multiple takes.

With the new Mute tool , that’s in the Track view toolbar, SONAR offers

two styles of clip muting:

• Default style—after you activate the Mute tool, you can drag through

time ranges to mute all or part of a clip: dragging through the bottom

half of a clip mutes the time range you drag through; dragging through

the top half of a clip unmutes the range you drag through. The default