JSonar includes a very powerful feature that allows its users to quickly manipulate multiple tracks or buses without having to move away from the current strip. What this means is that it is possible, for example, to solo, mute, arm, archive or input echo contiguous or noncontiguous strips without having to move the cursor away from the track or bus the user is located on. This is how it works:

Shortcut keys

• To mute the range of strips, use WINDOWS+Period (the . sign); to unmute, use WINDOWS+SHIFT+Period (the . sign).
• To solo the range of strips, use WINDOWS+Slash (the / sign); to unsolo, use WINDOWS+SHIFT+Slash (the / sign).
• To arm the range of tracks, use WINDOWS+Semicolon (the ; sign); to unarm, use WINDOWS+SHIFT+Semicolon (the ; sign).
• To input echo the range of tracks, use WINDOWS+Apostrophe (the ' sign); to un-input echo, use WINDOWS+SHIFT+Apostrophe (the ' sign).
• To archive the range of tracks, use WINDOWS+GraveAccent (the ` sign); to unarchive, use WINDOWS+SHIFT+GraveAccent (the ` sign).

What happens then?

1. After you press any of the shortcut keys above, a dialog will come up asking you to mute/unmute, solo/unsolo etc, the range of tracks/buses.
2. If you wanted to mute/unmute tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, for example, you would enter “1–4” (without quotes) and presss ENTER.
3. If you wanted to arm tracks 2, 4, 5, 8, simply enter “2 4 5 8” (without quotes).
4. If you wanted to archive tracks 1 through 3 and 7, you could enter “1–3 7” (without quotes).

In other words, for continuous numbers, use the “-” sign and for single numbers, separate them with a space.

Also see How do I navigate, select and manipulate tracks and buses with JSonar?.