User's Guide

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Hairpin symbol
Crescendo or decrescendo mark.
See the online Help topic Chords and Marks
Input
The selection for which channel of a device you wish to receive signal from.
See the online Help topic Choosing an input.
Input monitoring
Hearing real-time playback of a track's input as it is being sent to, or recorded, in SONAR. You can
enable input monitoring with a track’s Input Echo button.
Inspector menu (same as context menu)
Menu appropriate for a particular location or item. Display a context menu by right-clicking on the
location or item.
Instrument definitions
A file that contains information necessary to communicate settings about banks, patches,
controllers, and other features of an instrument.
See the online Help topic Creating Instrument Definitions.
Key aftertouch (KeyAft)
MIDI property regulating the pressure applied to an individual note.
Key offset
The number of half-steps by which to transpose the track. A value of 12 raises the notes an octave.
You can transpose all note in a track on playback by setting this value (Key+) in the Tracks pane.
Key signature
Key of the piece, how many sharps or flats it has, and how the music displays in the various views.
Latency
Often referred to as “buffer size” is a measurement of the time it takes, in samples, for audio to travel
from its source, through a sound card's drivers and converters, into SONAR, and back through the
sound card to your speakers.
Layout
Current arrangement of all views in a particular project.
See the online Help topic Layouts, Templates and Key Bindings.
Linked clips
Clips so specified that any change made to one applies to all.
See the online Help topic Splitting and Combining Clips.