Quick Groups - CAKEWALK SONAR User Manual

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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.

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.
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
Track-Property-[name of property] command).
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 selection
(selecting a track and all its recorded MIDI or audio data) is still performed by clicking the track
number, but not in the upper left corner.
A track strip selector in the
Track view
A track selector in the Track view
A bus strip selector in the Track view
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