Instruction Manual
106 Tutorials
Tutorial 1—The Basics
4. To change the patch, select a new patch from the menu that appears.
SONAR closes the menu and immediately starts playing the piano part
with that new instrument.
5. Have fun trying all the different patches!
6. Click the Solo button in track 1 again to unsolo the Piano track.
You can change the patch at other times in the project besides the
beginning by using the Insert-Bank/Patch Change command:
1. Stop playback.
2. Select the track in which you want to insert a patch change by clicking
on its track number.
3. Move the Now time to the place where you want to insert the patch
change.
4. Use the Insert-Bank/Patch Change command.
The Bank/Patch Change dialog box appears.
5. Choose a patch from the Patch field and click OK.
SONAR inserts the patch change that you selected at the Now time.
6. Move the Now time to a place before the patch change and play the
project so that the Now time moves through the place where you put
the patch change. You may want to solo the track to hear it clearly.
7. Listen to the sound change when the Now time reaches the patch
change.
You may want to experiment with changing all the instruments used by the
project. One thing you should know: Changing the instrument on a
percussion track (such as the Drum, Shaker, and Triangle tracks in this
project) may have no effect. For many synths, percussion instruments are
played on MIDI channel 10, which in General MIDI is dedicated to
percussion. The note determines the instrument, and the patch is irrelevant.
Changing the Patch in the Track/Bus Inspector
You can also change a track’s patch in the Track/Bus Inspector (see Track/
Bus Inspector), which is a vertically expanded version of the current track’s
controls at the far left side of the Track view. Click a track to make it the
current track. For example, to change the Piano track’s patch, click the
Patch button in the Piano track’s Track/Bus Inspector and choose a new
patch from the menu. The Patch button is just below the Bank button. You
can hide or show the Track/Bus Inspector by pressing i on your computer
keyboard.