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Muting and Soloing Tracks
Muting a track causes it not to sound when you play your project. Soloing a track
mutes all the tracks except the ones that are soloed.
You can change a track’s mute or solo status while your project is playing.
Muting a Track
Frequently you will want to temporarily turn off one or more instruments in your
ensemble. SONAR makes it easy to mute the parts you don’t want to hear.
For example, suppose that you are practicing the piano part for this project and
want to hear only the other instruments. Let’s mute the piano part. With the
project playing, do the following:
1. In the Track pane, click the Mute button in the Piano track (track 1). The
button turns yellow, and the piano part drops out of the project.
2. To turn the piano back on, click the Mute button again.
Note that the yellow MUTE indicator lights up in the Status bar whenever a track
is muted (the Status bar is located at the bottom of the SONAR window). This can
be very helpful if there are muted tracks that aren’t visible.
Let's try using a different method to mute two tracks simultaneously:
1. In the Track pane, click the track number (the left-most column) of the Piano
track. The track is selected.
2. While pressing Ctrl, click the track number in the Sax track. The Piano and
Sax tracks are selected.
3. Choose Track-Mute. Both tracks are muted.
You can also mute or unmute tracks by using the popup menu:
1. In the Track pane, click the track number of the Piano track.
2. While pressing Ctrl, click the track number of the Sax track. The piano and
sax tracks are selected.
3. Right-click on either track to bring up the popup menu.
4. Choose Mute (which should have a check mark beside it).
SONAR unmutes the tracks. You can also unmute all tracks by clicking the Mute
indicator on the Status bar.
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