Changing the order of tracks

There are several ways you can change the order of tracks in the Track view:

Drag a track to a new position in the Track view.

Use the Track view Tracks > Sort Tracks command to rearrange the tracks in order based on the track name, status, or other setting.

To drag a track to a new position

1.	Position the mouse just to the right of the track number, over the track icon of the track you want to move.

The cursor changes to an up/down arrow.

2.	Drag the track to its new location, and release the mouse button.

SONAR rearranges and renumbers the tracks.

You can sort the tracks in a project based on several parameters, in either ascending or descending order:

Table 42.  

Sort by	What happens
Name	Ascending puts track in alphabetic order, descending puts them in reverse order
Size, output, or channel	Ascending puts them in increasing numeric order, descending puts them in decreasing numeric order
Muted, archived, selected	Ascending puts qualifying tracks at the end, descending puts them at the beginning

No matter how you sort, blank tracks always go to the end of the list.

Note that track numbers are used for reference only. When you re-arrange the order of tracks, they are automatically assigned sequential numbers based on the order in which they are displayed in the Track view.

To sort the tracks

1.	Click the Track view Tracks menu and choose Sort Tracks to open the Sort Tracks dialog box.

2.	Choose the attribute by which to sort from the Sort By list:

Table 43.  

Attribute	How it works
Name	If you choose this attribute, SONAR puts the tracks into alphabetical order, either ascending or descending, depending on what you choose in the Order list.
Muted	If you choose this attribute, SONAR puts all the muted tracks at either the top or bottom of the Tracks window, depending on whether you choose descending (top) or ascending (bottom) in the Order list.
Archived	If you choose this attribute, SONAR puts all the archived tracks at either the top or bottom of the Tracks window, depending on whether you choose descending (top) or ascending (bottom) in the Order list.
Selected	If you choose this attribute, SONAR puts all the selected tracks at either the top or bottom of the Tracks window, depending on whether you choose descending (top) or ascending (bottom) in the Order list.
Size	If you choose this attribute, SONAR puts the tracks in order by size, either in descending or ascending order.
Output	If you choose this attribute, SONAR sorts the tracks by output number, either in descending or ascending order. SONAR considers non-numbered outputs to have lower numbers than numbered outputs.
Channel	If you choose this attribute, SONAR sorts the tracks by channel number, either in descending or ascending order: If you choose ascending order, SONAR puts all MIDI tracks at the bottom of the Tracks window, with the lower channel numbers first. If you choose descending order, SONAR puts all MIDI tracks at the top of the Tracks window, with the higher channel numbers first.

3.	Choose the order in which to sort from the Order list.

4.

Click OK.

SONAR sorts the tracks according to the settings you chose.