Instruction Manual

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SONAR Basics
Introduction
Layouts
You may spend a lot of time making sure that all the views are laid out on
the screen just the way you want. When you save your work, you can save
the screen layout along with it. You can also save the layout by itself and
then use the layout with other projects. For more information, see the online
help topic “Layouts.”
Next topic: Working on a Project.
Working on a Project
Much of your time in SONAR is spent recording and listening to your project
as it develops. The Transport toolbar, shown below, contains the most
important tools and other pieces of information you’ll need to record and
play back your project.
Every project has a current time, known as the Now time (see: The Now
Time and How to Use It). As you record or play back a project, the Now time
shows your current location in the project. When you create a project, the
Now time is set to the beginning of the project. The current Now time is
saved with your project.
You control recording and playback using tools on the Large Transport
toolbar (press F4 to show or hide), which work a lot like the ones on your
tape deck or CD player:
A. Play B. Record C. Click to move ahead one measure D. Auto-punch toggle
E. Drag Now Time to any desired position F. Click to jump to the end G. Click to
back up one measure H. Click to jump to the beginning
As you work with a project, you can use SONAR’s mute and solo features to
choose which tracks are played, or you can create loops to play a particular
section over and over again. You can also create markers, which are
named time points you add to your project to make it easy to jump to a
particular location.
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