Instruction Manual

202 Controlling Playback
Changing Track Settings
order in which your devices appear in a track’s output control may not
match the port numbers that appear on your external multiport MIDI device.
A. These devices are not selected
When you first run SONAR it asks you to select MIDI devices. You may
want to chan ge these selections in the future. You can do so by selecting
different devices in the MIDI Devices dialog box.
Your computer is usually equipped with at least one audio device—your
computer sound card. Your setup may have several different audio output
devices, or you may have a multichannel sound card that presents itself to
your computer as though it were several different devices, one for each
stereo pair. In SONAR, audio tracks are assigned to main outs or buses.
Each main out represents a hardware device. You use the Output control to
assign a track in a project to the main or bus you want to use.
While you need to choose the MIDI output devices you want to use before
you assign them to tracks, all of your audio devices can be assigned to
tracks freely. You do not need to configure them the way you do MIDI
devices. If you have a voice modem or speakerphone in your computer,
however, you might want to set up SONAR so that it won’t use those
devices. Also, note that some dedicated audio equipment has specific
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