Reference Guide

Introduction

SONAR basics

The Track pane lets you see and change the initial settings for each track. To change the current

track, move the highlight using the mouse or the keyboard as follows:

The Clips pane shows the clips in your project on a horizontal timeline called the time ruler that

helps you visualize how your project is organized. Clips contain markings that indicate their

contents. The Clips pane lets you select, move, cut and copy clips from place to place to change the

arrangement of music and sound in your project.

The Bus pane shows the buses in the project, and also shows any editing views that are in tabbed

(docked) format. The Show/Hide Bus pane button allows you to show or hide the Bus pane at

the bottom of the Track view.

The Navigator pane displays a large part of your project so you can see an overview of your song.

The Navigator pane displays all of your project’s tracks.

The Track view makes it easy to select tracks, clips, and ranges of time in a project.

For more information, see “Track view” on page 1682 and “Configuring the display of tracks in the

Track view” on page 315.

What it does Key

Moves the highlight to the next or previous control. LEFT/RIGHT ARROW

Moves to the same control in the adjacent track, or the next track of the same type

if the control only applies to a specific track type (for example, the Patch control

only applies to MIDI tracks).

UP/DOWN ARROW

Displays the next page of tracks. PAGE DOWN

Displays the previous page of tracks. PAGE UP

Moves the focus to the first track. HOME

Moves the focus to the last track. END

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