{"id":11434,"date":"2013-08-23T14:38:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T18:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/?p=11434"},"modified":"2013-08-23T14:38:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T18:38:29","slug":"sonar-quick-tip-save-time-tweaking-levels-with-quick-grouping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/2013\/08\/23\/sonar-quick-tip-save-time-tweaking-levels-with-quick-grouping\/","title":{"rendered":"SONAR Quick Tip: Save time tweaking levels with Quick-Grouping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SONOR1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-11473\" title=\"SONOR\" src=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SONOR1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a>Grouping is one of the most powerful tools you can use during both the tracking and mixing process, but <a title=\"SONAR X2 Overview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cakewalk.com\/Products\/SONAR\/\" target=\"_blank\">SONAR X2<\/a> offers up Quick-Grouping as an alternative method for making quick adjustments to your levels.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s say you have mic&#8217;d up a drum set and you have been working diligently on the balance. \u00a0Without realizing it you are completely clipping your Master Bus, don&#8217;t worry this happens to the best of us. The first thing that comes to mind is making a group to correctly adjust all your levels at once. This involves assigning each parameter to a group and then eventually turning that group off and on again when you need to make small adjustments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Instead of doing that, try the following Quick Groups feature<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Select all of your tracks using CTRL+A<\/li>\n<li>Hold CTRL<\/li>\n<li>This makes a temporary group of your selected tracks<\/li>\n<li>Move 1 fader<\/li>\n<li>The rest will follow suite and keep the fidelity of your balance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Quick-Groups-Motion-Blur1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-11438\" title=\"Quick Groups\" src=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Quick-Groups-Motion-Blur1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"717\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cakewalk.com\/products\/sonar\/web-trial.aspx\">Try SONAR X2 free for 30-days<\/a> and check out this easy-to-use feature.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grouping is one of the most powerful tools you can use during both the tracking and mixing process, but SONAR X2 offers up Quick-Grouping as an alternative method for making quick adjustments to your levels. Let&#8217;s say you have mic&#8217;d up a drum set and you have been working diligently on the balance. \u00a0Without realizing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/2013\/08\/23\/sonar-quick-tip-save-time-tweaking-levels-with-quick-grouping\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SONAR Quick Tip: Save time tweaking levels with Quick-Grouping&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,78,50],"tags":[1963,24,1861,1931,1964],"class_list":["post-11434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sonar","category-tips","category-sonar-x2","tag-grouping","tag-mixing","tag-quick-grouping","tag-sonar-quick-tips","tag-sonar-shortcuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}