Reference Guide

Arranging and editing
The Track view makes it easy to arrange and mix your projects from a single view. From one
location, you can select, copy, move, mix, and rearrange the parts of your project, using menu
commands or drag-and-drop tools. You can add real-time audio and MIDI effects from the Effects bin
and buses. Markers provide easy-to-use reference points and labels for the different parts of your
project, and the snap grid makes it easy to align your clips to the desired time points. Slip-editing
allows you to non-destructively change the start and/or end time of a clip, just by dragging its
borders. With Groove clips, you can easily create repetitions of your clips using your mouse. Both
the Track view and Console view have a full set of record and playback meters, which you can
configure in several ways. SONAR also has a variety of tools and commands for changing the
tempo of your project. Composite tracks allow you to keep all your takes in one track if you want, and
selectively mute and solo the various clips in the track. Track folders let you edit multiple tracks at
once and conserve screen space.
Arranging Tracks
Working with Track Templates
Track Icons
Arranging Clips
Working with Partial Clips
Markers and the snap grid
Working with Linked Clips
Splitting and Combining Clips
Take Management and Comping Takes
Clip Muting and Isolating (Clip Soloing)
Track Folders
Adding Effects in the Track View
Changing Tempos
Undo, Redo, and the Undo History
Slip-editing (Non-destructive Editing)