Chapter 5. Getting Around in SONAR

To record, play, and edit your music in SONAR, you have to know how to navigate through the data in your project. As you learned in Chapter 2, SONAR includes a number of tools that allow you to examine and manipulate your data: They are the Track, Piano Roll, Staff, and Event views. Although each of these views provides a different way to edit your data, they all share some common means of control. In other words, even though your data appears (and is edited) differently in each view, you access the data in a similar manner no matter which view you use. A little confused? Don’t worry, you’ll understand exactly what I mean after you finish reading this chapter. This chapter will do the following:

• Explain how to use the Now time

• Show you how to use the Go menu

• Describe how to set place marks in your project

• Teach you how to search for specific music data in your project