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Track-by-track playback

Controlling playback

Track-by-track playback

SONAR lets you play back any combination of tracks at one time by changing each track’s status.

You can control the status of each track with the individual controls that are on every track, or with

the global controls in the Control Bar’s Mix module. For more information about the Mix module, see

“Mix module” on page 509.

Figure 40. The Mix module.

A. Mute B. Solo C. Arm D. Input Echo E. Live Input PDC Override F. Bypass All Effects G. Exclusive Solo

H. Dim Solo I. Automation Read (playback) J. Automation Write (recording) K. Offset mode

There are several different status settings for each track:

While playback is in progress, you can mute and unmute tracks in any combination, which means

you can hear only the tracks that you want. You can change the status of a track in the Track view,

Status What it means

Normal The track plays unless one or more of your other tracks is soloed.

Muted The track is not played, but you can turn it on while playback is in progress.

Archived The track is not played, and you must stop playback to re-enable it. Archived

tracks do not tax your CPU during playback so they can be used to store

alternate takes.

Soloed Only those tracks that are designated as solo tracks are played; all others are

muted.

Armed The track is armed for recording.

Mono/Stereo (audio tracks

only)

The track plays back in either mono or stereo, depending on what the

individual track setting is in the Track Inspector (see “Track Inspector

overview” on page 529).

Phase normal or inverted

(audio tracks only)

If a track was accidentally recorded out of phase with another track, the Phase

button in the Track Inspector lets you reverse the phase of a track.

Table 21.

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