Reference Guide

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Mixing
Using Real-Time Effects
• To bypass or un-bypass all the effects on a clip, right-click in the clips’s FX bin and choose
Bypass Bin from the pop-up menu.
• To enable or disable an individual effect, click the effect’s green on/off switch.
• To move an effect to another FX bin (on a track or a clip), drag the name of the effect to the other
FX bin.
• To copy an effect to another FX bin (on a track or a clip), hold the CTRL key down, and then drag
the name of the effect to the other FX bin.
• To change the order of an effect in an FX bin, drag the name of the effect up or down to the
desired place in the effects chain.
To Apply Inserted Clip Effects
1. If you want to apply the inserted effects on more than one clip, select them.
2. If you want to leave room at the end of any clips for effects tails, slip-edit the ends of the clips to
leave some empty space.
3. Use the Edit > Bounce to Clip(s) command.
After the progress bar disappears, the bounced clips appear with new waveforms to reflect the
effects processing. The inserted clip effects are removed from the bounced clips automatically.
Canceling changes made to real-time plug-ins
EnablePluginCancelButton=<0 or 1>, default = 0
In SONAR 4.0.2 and earlier, opening the property page of a VST plug-in during playback could result
in a slight disruption in playback.
The cause for this problem has its roots in the little Cancel button that sits in the top right corner of
the plug-in's property page. The purpose of this button is to allow the user to cancel out of any
changes they might have made to the plug-in, restoring back to whatever state the plug-in was in
before they opened the GUI window. To make this work, SONAR would need to take an initial
snapshot of the plug-in's state, and some plug-ins with large amounts of preset data could cause an
audio hiccup if the data was captured for the Cancel button.
To address this issue, SONAR 4.0.3 (and later) does not take a snapshot of the plug-in's state by
default, and the Cancel button is not available. There is a new Cakewalk.ini variable to bring
back the Cancel button if desired, but be aware that this may also result in hiccups when opening
VST plug-ins during playback.
This variable should be set in the [WinCake] section. For example:
[WinCake]
EnablePluginCancelButton=1