CAKEWALK SONAR - Working with Multiple Tracks in the Piano Roll View

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Working with Multiple Tracks in the Piano Roll View
You can simultaneously edit as many tracks as you want in the Piano Roll view.
When you display several tracks at the same time in the Piano Roll view, you
control which track(s) you can see and/or edit by using the buttons in the Track
List pane. You can show or hide the Track List pane by clicking the Show/hide
track pane button in the Piano Roll view toolbar.
The following is a list of ways to optimize the multiple track functionality in the
Piano Roll view.
Selecting Tracks
Use the Pick Tracks combo button to assign tracks to the Track List pane.
Click on the left side of the Pick Tracks combo button to open the Pick Tracks
dialog box. Click on a track name to select it. Hold down the Ctrl key and click
more track names to select additional tracks. Click on the right side of the Pick
Tracks combo button to show the Down/Up popup menu. Selecting Down moves
the track or range of tracks down by one. Selecting Up moves the track or range of
tracks up by one. For example, if you have tracks 2, 3 and 7 displayed in the Track
List pane and you select Down, the Track List pane displays tracks 1, 2, and 6.
Display
If the notes of two tracks overlap, the notes of the topmost track in the Track List
pane appear over the notes of the other track. You can move a track up or down by
in the Track List pane by clicking and holding on the track and moving the track to
the desired position.
All tracks ending in the same digit (2, 12, 22, etc.) share the same color. The
default colors can be changed using Options-Colors.
The Enable/Disable Track Editing Button
The Enable/Disable Track Editing button sets whether or not you can edit
the notes of a track in the Piano Roll view. When the button appears white, editing
is enabled and the track appears in color. When the button appears gray, editing is
disabled and the track appears in gray.
Note: The Enable/Disable Track Editing button only disables the Piano Roll view
tools; other editing commands are still operational.
The Show/Hide Track Button
The Show/Hide Track button controls whether or not a track appears in the
Note pane. The button appears in color when toggled on, white when off.
The Invert Tracks Button
If you use the Show/Hide Track button to hide any tracks in the Track List pane,
you can show all these tracks and hide the ones that are currently displayed by
clicking the Invert Tracks button.