I think the solo button issue may well depend on how you are routing headphone mixes.

If I'm tracking a band/artist I usually have a couple of different headphone (cue) mixes. Each track within Sonar has a pre-fader send on it one to Cue Mix A, another to Cue Mix B.

Cue Mix A & Cue Mix B are two Sonar busses that have their output set to two different stereo pairs on my mixer (a ZED-R16). That in turn has each channels two pre-fader aux sends assigned to the ZEDs pair of studio outs which each feed a separate channel on the headphone amp.

That way each set of headphones can be assigned to either mix, and each mix can be a mix of tracks coming back from Sonar and any live tracking tracks. It's not really possible to set up a cue mix without additional outputs on your interface.

In the scenario above soloing instruments within Sonar does not affect the cue mixes at all.

martinv


Thanks for all the good ideas.   I'm thinking in future projects, I will keep all songs in 1 project during initial tracking especially when it involves a 4+ piece band.

Another option for creating a seperate project file for each song i'm wondering about is the following (Maybe already described above by Jonesey):

Instead of saving an updated project template after each song, could I:
1.  save the current song as a project (.cwp),
2.  then delete the audio and resave the .cwp as the name of the song (Eg: song2.cwp).  This will act as a template but is a .cwp instead of a template file. 

This would mean all audio for all songs will be in the same Audio folder. 
Is there any down sides to doing this aside from more confusion if I need to look in the Audio to find some file?


   

No, this should work fine