I have a question and an issue that I'm experiencing.
 
1. In Reaper, there was a feature where I could slow the down the project without touching the tempo to record a faster part, then disable it to get back to the regular tempo. I work with MIDI always, and I use a guitar VST where I'm recording metal track that often feature fast playing. I'm not the best keyboard player, and when I was using Cubase, there was a tempo track and fixed tempo feature. In there, I always used the tempo track so I could use the fixed tempo to record the faster guitar and drum fast with my controller(s) at a slower tempo. Does anyone know of a solution to do something similar in Sonar?
 
2. For some reason, my solo isn't working as expecting. Soloing one track mutes the whole project. Any idea why?
 
I've searched on these issues and couldn't find answers.

Solo is solo, of course it mutes everything else. Even on my mixer if I solo a channel that is all your hear in your phones, if you want more you press more. You can solo as many tracks as you like. On a mixer the difference is this only involves your headphone or cue mix send and does not shut down the main output like Sonar does. 
 
As far as tempo goes it's easy to set a new tempo to play parts and then just put it back when done, takes 2 seconds, Just make a note to yourself of the original tempo. As long as there's no audio in a project this works smoothly. 

Got you on the tempo part.
 
But you misunderstood my issue with the solo. I'm not getting ANY audio on anything when I solo any track. It just mutes the entire project, including the track I'm trying to solo.

Vern C
Got you on the tempo part.
 
But you misunderstood my issue with the solo. I'm not getting ANY audio on anything when I solo any track. It just mutes the entire project, including the track I'm trying to solo.

That is weird. If you have inadvertently muted the track (either by itself or as part of some group or folder) you want to solo, then since mute takes precedence over solo the effect would be that the soloed track would still be muted (even though it would look like it had been soloed) and the other tracks would then be muted so your whole project would go silent.

1) Maybe you want the Tempo view http://www.cakewalk.com/D...amp;help=Views.37.html
2) Dim Solo mode will allow other tracks to play at a lower volume http://www.cakewalk.com/D...;help=Playback.15.html. If this is not what you are looking for maybe a better description of exactly what and where the solo is being applied might help to narrow down the issue. It may be a routing problem.

scook
1) Maybe you want the Tempo view
2) Dim Solo mode will allow other tracks to play at a lower volume . If this is not what you are looking for maybe a better description of exactly what and where the solo is being applied might help to narrow down the issue. It may be a routing problem.

Well with the solo, what I'm looking for is for only the track I press the 'S' button on to play back audio, like it works in most other hosts. When I press the solo button on ANY track, EVERYTHING goes silent, including the track I soloed. I'm expecting the soloed track to be the only one playing back audio. It probably is a routing issue, but I can't figure that out where the problem lies.

Just so you know, there is a global SOLO toggle ("B" in the picture below) in the Mix Module

When working with multi-output synths keep in mind the MIDI and audio solo buttons are linked.

Ahah! I figured it out. It's not the DAW doing this. Each time, I was trying to solo my Superior Drummer track. It turns it it's Superior Drummer doing this. Hopefully I don't run into this with other VSTs. I just need to figure out why SD is doing this....
 
EDIT: It's because I'm using a drum map. When I switch the output to "Superior Drummer 1", solo works fine. Now I just need to find out how to deal with this when I want to solo. Off to the manuals I go!

Are you assigning multiple audio tracks to Superior Drummer? If so, make sure to go into Superior Drummer and make the mixer assignments.

Well, everything is assigned to the first SD ouput. (Stereo 1/2)