Cakewalk - SONAR Documentation

Synth tracks

Using a soft synth introduces a third kind of track to your project alongside audio and MIDI tracks. A synth track functions much like an audio track, but with a few differences:

A synth track’s input is always a synth or a ReWire device, which means you cannot record audio or enable input monitoring from another source on that track.

A synth track can display a waveform preview of its output. When you enable this display function by clicking the button on the track strip, the amplitude of a synth track's audio signal is graphed in real time as a waveform.

Synth tracks are distinguished by the synth icon to the right of the track number.

A. Synth icon

For step by step instructions, see:

Inserting soft synths

Waveform preview for buses and synth tracks

ReWire instruments

Freeze tracks and synths

See also:

Using instrument tracks

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