Reference Guide

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Recording

Recording music from a MIDI instrument

• To arm a track in the Console view, click (to see the Arm button in the Console view, the MSR

button on the left side of the Console view must be depressed).

• To arm several tracks at the same time, select one or more tracks in the Track view, then right-

click and choose Arm from the pop-up menu.

A track’s Arm button turns red to indicate that the track is armed for recording.

To disarm all tracks at once

• Click the red Arm label that’s located in the status bar at the bottom of the SONAR window.

• Click the red Arm button in the Playback State toolbar, which you can display by using the

Views > Toolbars command and checking Playback State in the Toolbars dialog box.

Auto arming

You must arm tracks in order to record. To safeguard your data, there is no automatic arming of any

tracks.

If you want to record MIDI tracks without arming a track, choose Options > Global, and select the

General tab. Click the Allow MIDI Recording without an Armed Track check box.

This feature lets you start recording a new track simply by making it the current track and pressing R

or clicking the Record button in the toolbar. Auto-arming makes it possible to inadvertently record

over existing material in the current track, however.

Recording music from a MIDI instrument

Once you have set your tempo and metronome, and armed one or more tracks, you are ready to

start recording.

To record MIDI

1. Set the Now time to the point in the project where you want to start recording.

2. Click , press R, or choose Transport > Record. If your metronome count-in is turned on, it will

play the count-in.

3. Play or perform the material you want to record. As you record, SONAR displays a clip containing

the new material in the Clips pane (unless you’ve turned off this option on the General tab of the

Global Options dialog (Options > Global command).

4. Click , press the SPACEBAR, or choose Transport > Stop to stop recording.