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Tutorial 1—The Basics
Tutorials
Next Step: Playing Music on a Keyboard.
Playing Music on a Keyboard
If you've connected a MIDI keyboard (or another instrument) to your
external MIDI interface or the MIDI interface of your sound card, you can
play one or more parts of the project on the keyboard instead of the sound
card’s internal synthesizer. For instructions on connecting a keyboard to
your computer, see To Connect an Electric Guitar or Keyboard to Your
Computer. For this section, we assume that you want to connect the
keyboard to the MIDI In and MIDI Out of your sound card.
Checking Your MIDI Device Settings
First, let’s make sure that SONAR is set up to send MIDI output to your
keyboard.
1. Choose Options-MIDI Devices to open the MIDI Devices dialog box.
2. In the Outputs field, two devices should be selected. The first should be
your sound card synthesizer device; the second should be the MIDI
output your MIDI device is connected to (it should say something like
“SB Live MIDI Out”). The uppermost selected device will correspond to
Output 1, the second device to Output 2, and so on. For help with these
settings, see the online help topic “Setting Up Output Devices.”
3. Click OK.