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Track-by-track playback
Controlling Playback
Track-by-track playback
SONAR lets you play back any combination of tracks at one time by changing each track’s status.
You can control the status of each track with the individual controls that are on every track, or with
the global controls on the Playback State toolbar or the status bar that’s at the bottom of the
SONAR window. For more information about the status bar, see “Status Bar/CPU Meter/Disk Meter”
on page 855. For more information about the Playback State toolbar, see “The Playback state
toolbar” on page 188.
There are several different status settings for each track:
While playback is in progress, you can mute and unmute tracks in any combination, which means
you can hear only the tracks that you want. You can change the status of a track in the Track view,
the Console view, the Track menu, or the Playback State toolbar.
If a track is both muted and soloed, it does not play. Mute has precedence.
The track status is saved with the SONAR project file. If you save a SONAR project as a standard
MIDI File, however, all tracks are saved without mute, solo, or archive indicators.
See:
The Playback state toolbar
Silencing tracks
Soloing tracks
Inverting the phase of a track
Status What it means
Normal The track plays unless one or more of your other tracks is soloed.
Muted The track is not played, but you can turn it on while playback is in progress.
Archived The track is not played, and you must stop playback to re-enable it. Archived
tracks do not tax your CPU during playback so they can be used to store
alternate takes.
Soloed Only those tracks that are designated as solo tracks are played; all others are
muted.
Armed The track is armed for recording.
Mono/Stereo The track plays back in either mono or stereo, depending on what the
individual track setting is, and whether the Play in Mono button in the
Playback State toolbar is depressed.
Phase normal or inverted If a track was accidentally recorded out of phase with another track, the Phase
button lets you reverse the phase of a track.
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