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Tracks are used to store the sound or music made by each instrument or voice in a
project. For example, a song that is arranged for four instruments and one vocalist
may have 5 tracks—one for each instrument and one for the vocals. Each project
can have an unlimited number of tracks. Some of these tracks may be used in your
finished project, while others can hold alternate takes, backup tracks, and
variations that you might want to keep for future use. Each track can be made up
of one or many clips.
Clips are the pieces of sound and music that make up your tracks. A clip might
contain a horn solo, a drum break, a bass or guitar riff, a voice-over, a sound effect
like the hoot of an owl, or an entire keyboard performance. A track can contain a
single clip or dozens of different clips, and you can easily move clips from one track
to another.
Groove clips are audio clips which have tempo and pitch information embedded
within them, allowing them to follow changes to the project tempo or project pitch.
You can click on either edge of a Groove clip and drag out repetitions in the track.
Events are MIDI data (in MIDI tracks) or automation data.
SONAR File Types
Projects in SONAR can be saved as a project file with the extension .CWP or as a
Bundle file with the extension .
CWB.
For a complete description of the differences between project files and bundle files,
see “Project Files and Bundle Files” on page 619.
Other Types of Files
SONAR lets you create and work with several other types of files, in addition to
project (.
CWP) and bundle (.CWB) files that store your projects:
File type… Description…
MIDI files (extension .MID) Standard MIDI files.
Template files (extension .
TPL) Templates for new files you create
StudioWare (extension
.C
AKEWALKSTUDIOWARE)
To control external MIDI devices from
SONAR
OMF (extension .
OMF) Open Media Framework format files.
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