CAKEWALK sonar x3, Reference Manual

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Muting and soloing soft synth tracks
Software instruments
lower-numbered option. SONAR does not delete the affected tracks.
See:
“Playing a stand-alone synth” on page 876
“Converting your soft synth tracks to audio” on page 864
“Recording a stand-alone synth” on page 877
Muting and soloing soft synth tracks
SONAR automatically places any synth and MIDI tracks that use soft synths into a group that makes
muting and soloing the tracks easy:
• To mute or solo a MIDI track that is patched to a synth track, simply mute or solo the MIDI track—
SONAR automatically mutes or solos the correct synth track. If another MIDI track uses the synth
track as an output, SONAR leaves the synth track unmuted.
• To mute or solo all the MIDI tracks that are patched to a specific soft synth, simply mute or solo
the synth track that the MIDI tracks are patched into.—SONAR automatically mutes or solos all
the correct MIDI tracks.
Or
• Click the M or S buttons (mute and solo, respectively) next to the soft synth’s name in the Synth
Rack view. This mutes or solos all the tracks associated with this instance of the soft synth.
• Click the Solo button on the soft synth’s property page. The Solo button functions the exact
same way as the Solo button on the source track/bus.
You can use the Mute and Solo buttons in the Track view, Synth Rack, or Console view.
Rename synths in the Synth Rack view
It is possible to rename synth in the Synth Rack view. This is especially useful if you use many
instances of a particular synth and you need to distinguish each instance.
To rename a synth
Double click the Name field of the synth you want to rename.
Note: If you’re using a ReWire instrument and not a soft synth, always close the ReWire
instrument’s interface before you delete the instrument from SONAR, or before you close
SONAR.