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Clip Muting and Isolating (Clip Soloing)

Arranging and editing

Layer from the pop-up menu.

To Delete a Layer from a Track

• Right-click the Track Scale at the position where you want to delete a layer, and choose Delete

Layer from the pop-up menu.

To Select a Layer

• Right-click the Track Scale at the same vertical position where the desired layer is, and choose

Select Layer from the pop-up menu. You can de-select the layer by clicking an empty area of the

Clips pane.

To Loop Record Multiple Takes into Separate Track Layers

1. Use the Transport > Record Options command to open the Record Options dialog.

2. Under the Recording Mode options, choose Sound on Sound (Blend).

3. Under Loop Recording, choose Store Takes in a Single Track, and click OK.

4. Make sure that the armed track has its Show Layers option enabled.

5. Set your loop boundaries and start recording multiple passes through the looped area.

6. Stop recording.

When you finish recording, SONAR displays all your takes in separate layers in the recording track.

To Crop Overlapping Clips to Eliminate Overlap

1. In a multi-layer track, move either the Select tool or the Mute tool between two overlapping clips

until the cursor turns into the overlap cropping tool.

A. Overlap cropping tool

2. In the space between the clips, click the spot where you want the first clip to end and the second

one to begin. SONAR crops both clips so that they no longer overlap.

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Clip Muting and Isolating (Clip Soloing)

Together with multi-layer tracks, clip muting and isolating (clip soloing) make it easy to build a

composite take from multiple takes.