morganfm71
I have been using  Deselect All for many years because I've had extra tracks get deleted in the past. 

Me too, I've had multiple tracks deleted. The issue is that if other tracks are also selected you can't always darn well see them if they have scrolled off the top and you can see only (for example) tracks 20-30. It's all very well saying "make sure they are not also selected" but if they cannot be seen then you don't even know. An option "delete only single tracks at a time" could help if it gave an error like "Sorry, Dave, I can't do that because there are multiple tracks selected".

If you right click on the track it will tell you how many tracks you are about to delete.

icontakt
 
Maybe this is what you did?
 
I think the second right-click menu that I opened in the empty space below the tracks should also say "Delete 3 Tracks," instead of just "Delete Track."
I too have mistakenly deleted unintended tracks in the past because of this.

Wow. Well spotted icontakt....and great video. 

bitflipper
http://licecap.en.softonic.com/
 
 

I would recommend downloading Licecap directly from the developer's website [http://www.cockos.com/licecap/] to get the latest version and avoid any potential unwanted add-ons.
 
-- Ron
 

Very nice advise, thank you. I like this animation- this is exactly what happens- I do click on empty space often and this is why it showed "Delete track" and not 2 tracks.
 
I don't see why we need "select": track and "focus" track. If I want more than one track focused, I should be able to do it. I don't like select track because the clips in the track get selected. If I want to focus on the track and don't need to highlight all clips in the track, then I click on the space to the right from track name (empty space)- and that space is also small. The bottom line is- if I click on the track, it gets focused and everything else should get deselected automatically, kind of like in the Word document. If you highlighted a word and click on another word, the original selected word will deselect. I do not expect something somewhere be still selected if I switch to another part of a song. Why would it stay selected? Under what circumstances I would need a clip remain selected while working on another track?
 
I was always wondering how to set up let's say 2 MIDI tracks to receive data from 2 different NIDI controllers for recording. For example if I have 2 keyboard players playing on 2 different keyboards in real time and I want to record both. Looks like it only receives data on focused track. Or I may be wrong...

vladasyn
I was always wondering how to set up let's say 2 MIDI tracks to receive data from 2 different NIDI controllers for recording. For example if I have 2 keyboard players playing on 2 different keyboards in real time and I want to record both. Looks like it only receives data on focused track. Or I may be wrong...

Sonar will receive and record midi data on as many midi channels as you have on your midi interface. Just set each track to it's particular input/channel then record enable the tracks. You can also enable the 'echo input' on multiple channels if you wish.
 
The Sonar user manual is your friend:)