Instruction Manual

278 Recording
Importing Music and Sound
4. Select channels for any other MIDI port that’s listed, if you want to use
channels on that port also.
5. If you want to save this configuration, type a name for it in the window
at the top of the dialog, and click the disk icon to save it.
Now, when you choose inputs for other tracks, you can choose the preset
you saved by clicking the Presets option in the track’s Input dropdown
menu. If you want to edit a preset, select it in the top window of the MIDI
Input Presets dialog, edit it, and click the disk icon. If you want to delete a
preset, select it in the same dialog and click the X button to delete it.
Input Filtering
SONAR lets you filter out specific types of MIDI messages or filter the MIDI
input stream channel by channel. Any MIDI information that is filtered out is
neither recorded nor echoed to any other MIDI devices.
You can use the message type filter to screen out resource-intensive MIDI
messages like key and channel aftertouch. By default, SONAR records all
types of events except these two.
You can use message-type filtering to record short System Exclusive
(Sysx) messages in real-time. These will end up in the track as Sysx data
events, which can hold System Exclusive messages up to 255 bytes. Leave
the Buffers setting at 128 unless you experience data not being recorded.
For more information about Sysx, see System Exclusive Data.
To Filter Event Types
1. Choose Options-Global and click the MIDI tab.
2. Check the message types you want recorded.
3. Click OK.
From now on, SONAR records only the types of events you have chosen.
Importing Music and Sound
While recording is perhaps the most common way of adding material to a
SONAR project, there are several other methods you can also use. SONAR
lets you import music into a project from several different types of digital
data files, including MIDI files; audio files in Wave, MP3, AIFF, and other
formats; audio CD tracks and other SONAR project files.
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