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Arming Tracks for Recording
SONAR lets you record any number of tracks at one time. You indicate the tracks
you want to record by arming the tracks. You can arm a single track or several
tracks at one time. Each track records material received though its selected input.
Whenever a track is armed, not only does the track’s R button turn red, but the
Clips pane that’s to the right of that track’s controls turns a reddish hue.
To Arm One or More Tracks for Recording
• To arm a track in the Track view, click .
Or
• To arm a track in the Console view, click (to see the Arm button in the
Console view, the MSR button on the left side of the Console view must be
depressed).
Or
• To arm several tracks at the same time, select one or more tracks in the Track
view, then right-click and choose Arm from the popup menu.
A track’s Arm button turns red to indicate that the track is armed for recording.
To Disarm All Tracks at Once
• Click the red Arm label that’s located in the Status bar at the bottom of the
SONAR window.
Or
• Click the red Arm button in the Playback State toolbar, which you can display
by using the View-Toolbars command and checking Playback State in the
Toolbars dialog box.
Auto Arming
You must arm tracks in order to record. To safeguard your data, there is no
automatic arming of any tracks.
If you want to record MIDI tracks without arming a track, choose Options-
Global, and select the General tab. Click the Allow MIDI Recording without an
Armed Track checkbox.
This feature lets you start recording a new track simply by making it the current
track and pressing R or clicking the Record button in the toolbar. Auto-arming
makes it possible to inadvertently record over existing material in the current
track, however.
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