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Take lane and comping enhancements
New features in SONAR X3
New global Comping tool
The new global Comping tool lets you quickly isolate takes in Take lanes. Simply click a take to
isolate the take, or drag to make a time selection, and SONAR automatically mutes all other
overlapping takes in the same track. Clips are split, if necessary, in order to be isolated or muted.
The mouse pointer looks like when comping operations are possible. You can comp with either
the Smart tool or Comping tool .
Figure 391. Click the take you want to isolate.
For details, see “Using the Comping tool in Take lanes” on page 481.
New isolate and heal behavior
SONAR’s Smart tool or Comping tool have an isolate function that allows you to select a
region on one Take lane and automatically mute the same region in all other Take lanes on the same
track. This lets you quickly combine the best parts from each Take lane and create a perfect
composite take.
In previous versions of SONAR, the isolate function would mute by time (partial clip mute) when
isolating a clip in a Take lane. To improve workflow and to accommodate crossfades, SONAR X3
instead splits clips and mutes/unmutes the clips, as necessary, in order to define the isolate/mute
regions.
When a clip is split, the two resulting clips contain identical data, but are cropped differently. SONAR
will intelligently create as few clips as possible when comping. If a clip has been split, it can later be
“healed” by removing the split. SONAR can heal split clips if two clips are abutting, and contain the
identical audio data, as long as the clips have not been moved relative to each other.