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If you experience feedback during input monitoring, you can click the Audio
Engine button to turn off the audio engine. However, if playback or recording are
in progress, the button is unavailable, and you should click the Reset button
that’s just to the right of it instead, or else stop recording or playback first and
then click the Audio Engine button.
You may experience slightly better playback and recording performance by turning
the Audio Engine button off before you press the Play or Record buttons. This
happens if your computer’s resources are already stretched to the limit. When you
start recording or playback with the audio engine already functioning, there is still
some processing that SONAR has to do that’s left over when you start the
transport. This places an extra load on your system that can cause dropouts if your
system is already stretched thin. A more effective solution than disabling the
audio engine before starting the transport is to reduce the load on your system by
hiding some meters, increasing latency slightly, reducing the number of plug-ins
and/or tracks, etc.
Loop Recording
When recording a vocal or an instrumental section, you might want to record
several different takes so that you can choose the one you like best. You might even
want to record several takes to double a part or merge the best parts of each.
Normally, to record each take you would have to arm a track, start recording,
perform the take, and then stop recording. You can record multiple takes more
easily using a feature called loop recording. Loop recording lets you start
recording and record as many takes as you like, all in a single step.
SONAR loops between the loop start and loop end time, allowing you to record one
take on each pass. SONAR creates a clip for each take. You have three choices for
where these clips are stored:
• All clips can be recorded in Sound on Sound mode and stored in a single track,
where they are stacked on top of one another.
• All clips can be recorded in Overwrite mode in a single track, where each take
overwrites the previous one.
• Each clip can be recorded to a different track. SONAR automatically places
each take into a new, empty track. No existing tracks are changed in any way.
When you stack takes, using the Sound on Sound record mode, you hear all the
previous takes as you record each new take. When you store takes in different
tracks, each take is automatically muted as you record the next one. You choose
the option you want from the Record Options dialog.
When you finish recording, you can use the Edit-Undo command to erase all your
takes in a single step.
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