Instruction Manual

1236 Dialog Reference

Apply MIDI Effects dialog

When you select Apply MIDI Effects from the Process menu, the Apply

MIDI Effects dialog box appears. This dialog box lets you select options for

applying MIDI effects to selected MIDI data. You can choose to delete the

effect from the patch point after it is applied, so that it will not be reapplied

on playback.

See also:

Applying MIDI Effects

Assign Instruments dialog

The Options-Instruments command opens the Assign Instruments dialog

box. This command lets you choose one or more output/channel

configurations and assign an instrument to it or them.

SONAR lets you assign a MIDI instrument definition to each available MIDI

output and channel. The assignments you make determine the MIDI bank

names, patch names, note names, and controller names that you see

during your SONAR session.

Suppose that you have a Roland GS compatible synthesizer attached to

MIDI output 1. By assigning all 16 channels of MIDI output 1 to the Roland

GS instrument definition, you ensure that the bank, patch, note and

controller name lists you see displayed in Music Creator SONAR are the

ones that match your synthesizer.

Often, you want to assign a different instrument to channel 10, which is

usually used for percussion. For example, you might assign the Roland GS

instrument definition to channels 1 through 9 and 11 through 16, but you

would most likely want to assign the Roland GS Drumsets instrument

definition to channel 10. If you have several MIDI outputs, with a different

instrument attached to each one, you would normally assign a different

instrument to each MIDI output.

For convenience, you can assign a block of channels to one instrument,

and then change the assignment of one or more of those channels without

changing the others. For example, you can highlight all 16 channels of the

first MIDI output and assign them to the Roland GS instrument definition.

Then, you can highlight channel 10 of the first MIDI output and assign it to

the Roland GS Drumset instrument definition. Channels 1 through 9 and 11

through 16 on the first MIDI output will stay assigned to Roland GS.