Reference Guide

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Mixing
Using Control Groups
3. Choose Set Start = Current.
SONAR sets the start value of the control.
The Set Start = Current and Set End = Current commands set the range of motion that a grouped
control moves through as the other members of the group move through their starting and ending
values. You don’t have to designate a group as a custom group to create a custom group—just
group some controls and set their starting and ending values.
To Adjust the End Value of a Control
1. Set the control to the desired ending value.
2. Right click on the control.
3. Choose Set End = Current.
SONAR sets the end value of the control.
The Set Start = Current and Set End = Current commands set the range of motion that a grouped
control moves through as the other members of the group move through their starting and ending
values. You don’t have to designate a group as a custom group to create a custom group—just
group some controls and set their starting and ending values.
See also:
Quick Groups
Quick Groups
You can create a temporary group (a Quick Group) of track or bus controls by clicking the strip
selector on each track or bus that you want to group. Similar or identical controls in the grouped
tracks or buses will then move synchronously when you adjust them. For example, if you made a
Quick Group of an audio track and a MIDI track, and then dragged the volume fader in the MIDI
track, the volume fader in the audio track would move in similar fashion. If you dragged the Velocity
Trim fader in the MIDI track, the Volume Trim fader in the audio track would move also.
The additional attributes of Quick Groups are:
• Only one Quick Group can exist at a time.
• If a control is part of a Quick Group and a permanent group, the Quick Group takes precedence.
• Track and bus controls cannot be in the same Quick Group.
Strip selectors are located in the upper left corner of a track or bus number in the Track view, and
are located in the upper left corner of a track or bus name in the Console view. Traditional track
Note: Not all controls can be Quick Grouped or Grouped. Controls such as Input, Output, and
Effects Send Selector on Audio tracks as well as the Input, Output, Channel, Bank, Patch, Time+
and Key+ controls on MIDI tracks cannot be grouped (they can have identical values set though
by using the Tracks > Property > [name of property] command).