Enhanced editing with keyboard

SONAR supports advanced editing via the numeric keypad on standard QWERTY keyboards. You can perform the following operations:

Navigate (see Navigating with a keyboard):

Scroll

Zoom

Select (see Selecting with a keyboard):

Clip select

Time select

Edit (see Editing with a keyboard):

Trim/crop

Fade

To enable/disable editing with a QWERTY keyboard

1.	On your QWERTY keyboard, press the NumLock key to enable NumLock mode.

2.	On the numeric keypad, press 0.

3.	Select the desired mode:

Zoom/Scroll mode. Press 1.

Select mode. Press 3.

Edit mode. Press 9.

The keys on the numeric keypad are mapped as follows:

Figure 157. Numeric keypad (NumLock mode).

 

Key	Function
0	Enable/disable keyboard editing (when NumLock is enabled)
1	Enable Zoom/Scroll mode
2	Down
3	Enable Select mode
4	Left
5	Center edit cursor
6	Right
7	--
8	Up
9	Enable Edit mode
Volume knob (if keyboard has a rotary encoder)	Zoom/scroll/trim/crop depending on current mode
PLUS (+)	Crop or fade right in Edit mode
MINUS (-)	Crop or fade left in Edit mode

 

See:

Navigating with a keyboard

Selecting with a keyboard

Editing with a keyboard