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Muting and Soloing Soft Synth Tracks
Software Instruments
7. If you want to save your soft synth settings, type a name in the Presets field, and click the Disk
icon that’s next to the Presets field.
8. Make sure that the MIDI track has the focus (its titlebar is lighter), and play your MIDI controller.
When you play your MIDI controller you should hear the soft synth through your sound card’s
outputs. If you don’t, make sure you’re playing in the right range; a bank, patch, and channel are
selected; your monitor speakers or headphones are turned up; your controller is attached to your
MIDI interface; and that none of the relevant tracks are muted.
To Remove A Soft Synth from a Track or Bus
• If your soft synth is patched into the FX bin of an audio track or bus, right-click the name of the
soft synth, and choose Delete from the pop-up menu.
OR
• In the synth track that uses the soft synth as an input, choose another input for the track. If you
don’t select another soft synth as an input, the synth track becomes a regular audio track.
To Remove a Soft Synth from a Project
• If your soft synth is patched into the FX bin of an audio track or bus, right-click the name of the
soft synth, and choose Delete from the pop-up menu.
• If your soft synth is patched into the Input field of a synth track, go to the Synth Rack view, click
the name of the soft synth to select it, and then click the Delete button. SONAR deletes the soft
synth strip from the Synth Rack view and sets the inputs and MIDI outputs of all affected tracks to
the next lower-numbered option. SONAR does not delete the affected tracks.
See:
Playing a Stand-alone Synth
Converting Your Soft Synth Tracks to Audio
Recording a Stand-alone Synth
Muting and Soloing Soft Synth Tracks
SONAR automatically places any synth and MIDI tracks that use soft synths into a group that makes
muting and soloing the tracks easy:
• To mute or solo a MIDI track that is patched to a synth track, simply mute or solo the MIDI track—
SONAR automatically mutes or solos the correct synth track. If another MIDI track uses the synth
track as an output, SONAR leaves the synth track unmuted.
• To mute or solo all the MIDI tracks that are patched to a specific soft synth, simply mute or solo
the synth track that the MIDI tracks are patched into.—SONAR automatically mutes or solos all
Note: If you’re using a ReWire instrument and not a soft synth, always close the ReWire
instrument’s interface before you delete the instrument from SONAR, or before you close
SONAR.