Go View / Navigator, and the Navigator appears in a separate window that supplements the main Navigator strip. There's one other cool navigation technique. For projects without a lot of tracks, I recommend the Tall option, as that makes the tracks much easier to see. The other pop-up menu selection involves track height within the Navigator view. This is particularly useful for the 'Horz Zoom to Project' function, as hitting a key can instantly fit your entire project within the Clips pane and Navigator view. This may seem redundant - isn't it simple enough just to resize the rectangle? Yes, but making the zoom levels part of the pop-up menu options means that key bindings can trigger them. You can also select one of six horizontal zoom levels. In any event these commands, regardless of how you invoke them, now affect both the Clips pane and the Navigator. Many of these commands (Fit Project to Window, Hide Selected Tracks, Track Manager, etc) duplicate those found under the 'View Options' button in the toolbar above the Tracks pane. Right-click within the Navigator view strip and you'll find multiple options. This is all fairly basic, and a lot of Sonar users could stop here and still get a lot out of the feature. You can also click inside the rectangle and drag it around, which acts like putting a magnifying glass over the tracks. Make the rectangle smaller to 'zoom in' on the tracks on the Clips pane enlarge the rectangle and you see more tracks.
On top of the strip is a resizable rectangle - and that's where the fun begins: the area defined by the rectangle also defines what you'll see in the Clips pane. You can make this strip appear and disappear with the Show/Hide Navigator button (located above the Tracks Pane), as well as dragging the separator bar between the Navigator view and Track view up or down to change the Navigator view's height. The Navigator view is a strip that sits in the upper part of the Track View and shows the entire project at a glance. Such is certainly the case for the Navigator view, which is more than just an overview it's a powerful tool for getting around a project. Quite a few of the new features in Sonar 4 seem fairly straightforward - until you dig a little deeper. This month, find your way around projects, undertake hands-free recording, configure an external MP3 encoder and create pseudo-Track Folders for MIDI. The Navigator view provides another point of entry for accessing commands that relate to sizing projects and fitting them to the available space.
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