CAKEWALK SONAR - Soloing Tracks; Inverting the Phase of a Track

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To Archive or Unarchive Tracks
1. Select one or more tracks in the Track view.
2. Choose Track-Archive, or right-click and choose Archive from the menu to
toggle the archive status of the selected tracks.
Soloing Tracks
Sometimes you want to hear a single track, or a few tracks at once, without having
to mute all the other tracks. You can do this by soloing the tracks you want to hear.
As soon as any track is marked as a solo track, SONAR ignores all mute settings
(unless a soloed track is also muted—mute takes precedence over solo) and plays
only the track or tracks that are set to solo. Any number of tracks at one time can
be marked as solo. All these tracks will play together. As soon as the solo status of
the final solo track is turned off, SONAR once again plays back tracks based on
their mute settings.
To Solo or Unsolo Individual Tracks
• To solo or unsolo a track, click the Solo button in the Track or Console view
• To solo or unsolo several tracks at once, select the tracks and choose Track-
Solo, or right-click, and choose Solo from the popup menu.
To Unsolo All Tracks
• Click the S button in the Playback State toolbar or the Solo label in the Status
bar.
To Solo All Tracks
• If no tracks are currently soloed, click the S button in the Playback State
toolbar.
Inverting the Phase of a Track
A waveform’s exact opposite is called an inversion. It is a shift of 180 degrees. A
waveform and its inversion cancel each other out completely, so it is usually not
desirable to have two track recordings of the same source if one is phase inverted.
It can lead to reduced volume, lowered or distorted response in certain frequencies,
or even silence in the case of two tracks which are exactly identical (i.e. cloned
tracks).
Occasionally, for example when recording a source using two microphones, one of
the microphones may be recording an inversion of the other, the resulting tracks
may, to some degree, be cancelling each other out. SONAR allows you to invert the
phase of a track to match another.
To Invert the Phase of a Track
1. Open the Track view or Console view.
2. In the track you want to invert the phase, click the phase inversion button
.