Instruction Manual

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Recording Music from a MIDI Instrument
Recording
To Disarm All Tracks at Once
• Click the red Arm label that’s located in the Status bar at the bottom of
the SONAR window.
Or
• Click the red Arm button in the Playback State toolbar, which you can
display by using the Views-Toolbars command and checking Playback
State in the Toolbars dialog box.
Auto Arming
You must arm tracks in order to record. To safeguard your data, there is no
automatic arming of any tracks.
If you want to record MIDI tracks without arming a track, choose Options-
Global, and select the General tab. Click the Allow MIDI Recording without
an Armed Track checkbox.
This feature lets you start recording a new track simply by making it the
current track and pressing R or clicking the Record button in the toolbar.
Auto-arming makes it possible to inadvertently record over existing material
in the current track, however.
Recording Music from a MIDI
Instrument
Once you have set your tempo and metronome, and armed one or more
tracks, you are ready to start recording.
To Record MIDI
1. Set the Now time to the point in the project where you want to start
recording.
2. Click , press r, or choose Transport-Record. If your metronome
count-in is turned on, it will play the count-in.
3. Play or perform the material you want to record. As you record, SONAR
displays a clip containing the new material in the Clips pane (unless
you’ve turned off this option on the General tab of the Global Options
dialog—Options-Global command).
4. Click , press the Spacebar, or choose Transport-Stop to stop
recording.