A minor bug up my butt about SONAR (but I've always been annoyed by it) is the need to already have a track selected before Select All will do anything. This isn't how any other software I can think of works. If you say select all, they select all.
 
Is this just something I need to get over, or will it ever be possible within SONAR? Too often it slips my memory that I must first select a track. Memory is not what it once was. :)

I thought you were going to say that buses aren't included when you Ctrl+A in the track pane, and vice versa. I don't have a problem selecting all starting with nothing.

pencilartist
Is this just something I need to get over, or will it ever be possible within SONAR? Too often it slips my memory that I must first select a track. Memory is not what it once was. :)

I must not understand the problem. Are you talking about the track view? I just checked again and Ctrl+A selects all the tracks even if no track is selected. If a track is selected, then it adds the non-selected tracks.

focus (a single mouse click) just needs to be in the track pane as opposed to the bus pane

Then I must be the only person in the world who doesn't use keystrokes. No, I'm talking about Edit, Select All. And, as my luck goes, this morning I can't recreate it. Select All is really selecting all.

Select all its impacted by the track focus box. If all off these are at to volume, you select all volume envelopes. If you hit delete the envelopes are deleted not the clips. The focus box will then change to clip. Select all and delete again will delete all clips at that point.

gswitz
Select all its impacted by the track focus box. If all off these are at to volume, you select all volume envelopes. If you hit delete the envelopes are deleted not the clips. The focus box will then change to clip. Select all and delete again will delete all clips at that point.

That would be my error, then. I am expecting Select All to select each track for a mixdown. That's the only time I ever select all.

FWIW, I always select Nothing when doing a mixdown (ctrl + shift + a)

CTRL + A selects all tracks when I want to do a mixdown of all the tracks.  I then "bounce" all tracks to a new track for the mixdown. (Click on Tracks and then Bounce to Tracks).

Bristol_Jonesey
FWIW, I always select Nothing when doing a mixdown (ctrl + shift + a)

That's my preferred method. If there's a previous timeline selection Select all will select all tracks for that timeline selection. Select nothing ensures that the entire project is included in exports.
 
Having said that I've never had select all not select all tracks even with a timeline selection