How? Enlighten me.
 
Answer: Click and hold the small header icon between the track number and name. You won't see the arrow until you start moving up or down.
Special thanks to Craig Anderton and Beepster!

Put your mouse in the empty area to above and a tad left of the fx bin. You should see a little up/down arrow. Grab it and drag,eventually the new spot will show some blue and that's where it will land. I do it all the time.
 
PS - I usually move one spot at a time due to screen size limitations.

https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR%20X3&language=3&help=Arranging.03.html
 
That's for X3. But it's the same.

This is one thing that ticks me off to this day.
 
The answer is indeed look for some blank space in the Track Pane/Track Controls area of the track you want to move until you get the little up/down arrow cursor...
 
BUT instead being able to hover over any old blank area you kind of have to hunt around because, at least on my install, the grab points are very tiny and it can be a real pain in the butt to get the cursor to change... especially if you don't have the tracks dragged out vertically very far. Same goes for take lanes.
 
IDK... lots of context sensitive cursor stuff in Sonar is like that I find. Especially in the Clips Pane with the Smart Tool engaged but the whole "Move Track cursor" in the Track Pane is a totally different issue.
 
Meh...
 
Just hover around until you get the up/down arrow then drag. I find it usually shows up closer to the MSR buttons (Mute Solo Record) right around their edges. Helps to drag out the track border vertically so you have more area to hunt around.
 
Cheers.

There are a zillion places to click so you can drag. The main track icon makes a good target; if it's not showing the space to the right and left of the little track icon works, the space to the left of the track number, the space above the upper left of the FX bin, etc.

I just make that part of the track view a bit wider and then there'r plenty of space to the right (X2)

Anderton
There are a zillion places to click so you can drag. The main track icon makes a good target; if it's not showing the space to the right and left of the little track icon works, the space to the left of the track number, the space above the upper left of the FX bin, etc.

If it's simply a matter of hooking into the icon area... well then I'm an idiot and I'll check this out in a minute. So far though it seems rather random but my fear of activating/angering the icon demons may have kept me from discovering this... in which case I really am an idiot. Doing something else at the moment so I'll report back.

You have much work ahead of you if you truly want to be an idiot. For information on how real idiots operate, there are many magazines at supermarket checkout stands chock full of helpful tips on how to be a Jedi-level idiot.

BTW if you alt-click on the Track View track icon it transports you magically to the track icon folder - you don't need to do the right-click + context menu thang.
 

I hope you guys can forgive me - I respect and appreciate the efforts you put in on the forums - but I was already aware that re-arranging tracks in SONAR, TO THIS DAY, is actually a hunting game I like to call 'Hidden Arrows'. Just had to be a "bee-atch" about it a little after trying out "the new SONAR".

I can't believe I have to deal with the same annoyances in every new release of SONAR... But thanks anyway, guys!