Working On A Project - CAKEWALK SONAR User Manual

Locking Views
By default SONAR allows only one instance of each view, but you can lock the contents of most views,
preserving the current view by forcing a new instance of the view to appear if necessary. Locking views
is the only way you can have multiple instances of the same view open. Only the Track and Console
views cannot be locked.
To lock a view, just click the lock button at the top right of the view. An unlocked view looks like this
and a locked view looks like this
opening the view.
Floating Views
When a view is float enabled, you can move it outside of the confines of SONAR. This is particularly
useful if you take advantage of SONAR's dual monitor support. Using dual monitor support, you can
keep the Track or Console view on one monitor and "float" other views to the other monitor by dragging
them to the second screen.
For more information, see the online help topic "Floating Views and Dual Monitor Support."
Layouts
You may spend a lot of time making sure that all the views are laid out on the screen just the way you
want. When you save your work, you can save the screen layout along with it. You can also save the
layout by itself and then use the layout with other projects. For more information, see the online help
topic "Layouts."

Working on a Project

Much of your time in SONAR is spent recording and listening to your project as it develops. The
Transport toolbar, shown below, contains the most important tools and other pieces of information you'll
need to record and play back your project.
Every project has a current time, known as the Now time. As you record or play back a project, the
Now time shows your current location in the project. When you create a project, the Now time is set to
the beginning of the project. The current Now time is saved with your project.
You control recording and playback using tools on the Transport toolbar, which work a lot like the ones
on your tape deck or CD player:
Go to End
Stop
Play
Go to Beginning
As you work with a project, you can use SONAR's mute and solo features to choose which tracks are
played, or you can create loops to play a particular section over and over again. You can also create
markers, which are named time points you add to your project to make it easy to jump to a particular
location.
. A view can be locked automatically by pressing the Ctrl key when
Record automation
Record
Reset
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