Supported Sonar Features

JSonar supports the following features of Sonar:

• Information about the active project:
  • CPU load, hard disk space and other related information
• Track View (track pane, bus pane, clips pane and track inspector):
  • The number of tracks and buses in a project.
  • Numbers of muted, soloed, armed, archived, input echoed, empty or data tracks and/or buses.
  • Navigation between tracks or buses by selecting from the list of names, typing in the strip number or searching through the list of tracks/buses with a keyword.
  • All the standard actions such as soloing, arming, muting, archiving, selecting and toggling input echo of tracks in the track and bus panes.
  • Operating and moving between volume, pan, sends, effects, interleave state and other parameters of a given track or bus.
  • Connection of a current bus to other tracks and buses.
  • Manipulation of track layers: muting, soloing and querying the number of available layers on a track.
  • Configuration of the track/bus inspector display.
  • …and more
• Full support for multichannel (stereo and surround sound) VU meters.
• Event View.
• Loop Construction View.
• Loop explorer and Media Browser (depending on the version of Sonar you are using).
• The SynthRack view (see usage notes in the “Tips and tricks” section.
• Tempo View.
• Lyrics View.
• Surround Panner (feels very similar to track inspector in terms of navigation).
• Step Sequencer.
• Step Record panel.
• All Sonar main toolbars (press JAWSKey+F8, select a toolbar and use left and right arrow keys to move between controls).
• View-specific toolbars are also accessible where they exist (use JAWSKey+Shift+F8). Then press TAB, to move between view-specific toolbars, if there are more than one.
• Toggling track view tools, such as Scrub Tool, Snap-To-Grid, Envelope Tool, Navigator, autocrossfades, selection tool, split tool etc.
• Navigation through the project by measures or beats.
• Scrubbing and jogging are fully supported.
• The following plug-in suites are supported by JSonar:
  • Cakewalk native effects (delay, chorus, dynamic processor etc).
  • Sonitus effects (delay, wahwah, multiband compressor etc) through the use of Hot Spot Clicker (see below).
  • SFZ sound font player (through Hot Spot Clicker).
  • Session Drummer2 (through Hot Spot Clicker).
  • Dimension Pro (through Hot Spot Clicker)
  • And more.
• Sonar online help (use F1 to start help).

See “Tips and Tricks” section to learn how to use some of these features