Instruction Manual

564 Software Synthesizers

Muting and Soloing Soft Synth Tracks

SONAR automatically places any synth and MIDI tracks that use soft

synths into a group that makes muting and soloing the tracks easy:

• To mute or solo a MIDI track that is patched to a synth track, simply

mute or solo the MIDI track—SONAR automatically mutes or solos the

correct synth track. If another MIDI track uses the synth track as an

output, SONAR leaves the synth track unmuted.

• To mute or solo all the MIDI tracks that are patched to a specific soft

synth, simply mute or solo the synth track that the MIDI tracks are

patched into.—SONAR automatically mutes or solos all the correct

MIDI tracks.

• Click the M or S buttons (mute and solo, respectively) next to the soft

synth’s name in the Synth Rack view. This mutes or solos all the tracks

associated with this instance of the soft synth.

You can use the mute and solo buttons in the Track view, Synth Rack view,

or Console view.

Multi-port Soft Synths

A multi-port soft synth allows you the option of using a different synth track

for every output that the soft synth has. This allows you to use different

plug-in effects for each sound (or in some cases, group of sounds) that a

soft synth produces. For example, if a soft synth can produce 16 sounds at

the same time, and has 4 outputs, you can send any of the 16 sounds out

through any of 4 different outputs, giving you a choice of 4 different plug-in

configurations for that soft synth. You would use 4 different synth tracks:

one for each output. If a soft synth can produce 8 sounds at the same time,

and has 8 outputs, you could use 8 synth tracks and 8 plug-in

configurations. If you need more plug-in configurations or just more sounds,

you can insert more copies of the same soft synth, using new synth tracks

for all of the new copy’s outputs. You can also send all the MIDI tracks out

the same output and synth track if you don’t need separate plug-ins for

each sound, or just want to use the soft synth’s internal effects.

The Insert Soft Synth Options dialog gives you the option of automatically

creating a separate synth track for each audio output that the soft synth

has, or creating just one synth track for Output 1 of that particular soft

synth. Each new copy (also called an instance) of a soft synth is considered