CAKEWALK SONAR User Manual page 111

Looping is defined in the Loop/Auto Shuttle toolbar, as shown here:
Click to turn looping on or off
Loop Start time Loop End time
To set up a loop, you do three things:
• Set the start time of the loop
• Set the end time of the loop
• Enable looping
From then on, SONAR will automatically jump back to the start of the loop when it reaches the end.
When looping is enabled, the loop times are indicated by special markers in the Time Ruler.
Loop From
The Loop/Auto Shuttle dialog box, which appears when you use the Transport-Loop and Auto
Shuttle command or click the Loop and Auto Shuttle button
additional settings that affect the details of how looping operates:
Option...
Stop at the end time
Loop continuously
With the default option settings, SONAR will play the loop over and over again, continuously.
If you start playback before the loop start time, SONAR will play until the loop end time is reached,
then jump back to the loop start time.
Note: If you stop playback while looping is enabled, the Now time jumps to the Now time marker. If you
disable the On Stop Rewind to Now Marker option in the General tab of the Global Options dialog, the
Now time stays wherever you stopped playback.
The Rewind command operates slightly differently when looping is in effect. The first time you rewind,
the Now time is set to the start of the loop. If the Now time is already at the start of the loop, Rewind
takes you to the beginning of the project. From then on, Rewind switches back and forth between the
loop start time and the start of measure 1.
To Set Up a Playback Loop
1. Set the loop start and end times in one of the following ways:
• Drag the mouse between two points in the Time Ruler of the Track view, Staff, or Piano Roll
view to select a range of times, then click
selection time to the loop time.
Click to copy the
selection (From and Thru)
Click to open the Loop/Auto
Shuttle dialog box
Loop Thru
How it works...
Playback does not proceed beyond the end of the
loop
When playback reaches the end of the loop and
rewinds to the start, playback continues
automatically (this option is on by default)
in the Loop/Auto Shuttle toolbar to copy the
in the Loop toolbar, contains two
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