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To Change the Staff Pane Layout
1. Click the Staff View Layout button to open the Staff View Layout dialog
box.
2. Select a track from the list (if the track you want to edit is not in the list, click
the Pick Tracks button in the Staff view toolbar and select it). The Clef option
shows the track’s clef.
3. Select a new clef from the list.
4. If you select Treble/Bass, select a Split point.
5. If you select one of the Percussion options, click Percussion Settings to set up
the appearance of percussion notes.
6. Repeat steps 2-5 for other tracks.
7. Click Close when you are done.
SONAR displays tracks using the new staff settings.
The Fretboard
The Fretboard shows you the notes located at the Now time in the Staff pane, laid
out on a virtual guitar fretboard. For example, if the Staff pane shows you this:
The Fretboard pane shows you this:
The Fretboard stays in sync with the Now Time during playback and recording,
and stays in sync with the scrub time during scrubbing. The color of each note on
Tip:
If a piano part’s left-hand and right-hand parts overlap, a split point will not
correctly separate the two parts into treble and bass staves. You may prefer
to put the two parts into two separate tracks.