I am a veteran of earlier versions of SONAR and Cakewalk.    Earlier programs used to offer a little control on each audio track which would enable you to make the whole track play several ticks earlier,  or later,  than its default position.   This was a good way to experiment with a track's time position...   without actually nudging the audio clip contained,  forward or backward.

Does SONAR X3 no longer offer this little feature?   Must I now nudge an actual audio clip backward and forward in time?   Or is that old control hiding in some new place I haven't discovered?

Thanks,  ras

It's only ever been on MIDI tracks and now it's only available via the Inspector. It's the Time+ (time offset) widget at the bottom of the Inspector on the downstream side (MIDI tab on Simple Instrument tracks).

I wasn't aware that this feature applies to audio tracks.  I believe that it is only on midi tracks.
 

Is this a built-in feature, or a proposed one - for audio tracks?  The existing midi time offset would be the equivalent of what I'm looking for.

A hacky workaround would be to insert a delay, set it to 100% wet, and adjust the delay time to taste...

Voxengo's Sound Delay, a free VST plugin, does the backward part. I use it all the time.
 
http://www.voxengo.com/product/sounddelay/

rasputin1963
Earlier programs used to offer a little control on each audio track which would enable you to make the whole track play several ticks earlier,  or later,  than its default position.   This was a good way to experiment with a track's time position...   without actually nudging the audio clip contained,  forward or backward.

 
Maybe you also own Studio One, or some other DAW that has the feature, and mix it up with an early verison of SONAR?

To move audio inside an audio clip without moving the clip itself, click on the audio inside a clip with the Smart Tool while holding Alt+Shift, then drag.

I just always split the clips and moved the part I wanted, but it just dawned on me this saves me a couple steps. Thanks, Craig.
 
Time to learn a new, more efficient way.
Michael

Also BTW you can also do click+drag with Alt+Shift on MIDI clips. However this won't work if either the audio or MIDI clips are Groove Clips. If that's the case, then you need to bounce them to themselves first.