Instruction Manual

Introduction
SONAR is a professional tool for authoring sound and music on your personal computer.
It’s designed for musicians, composers, arrangers, audio and production engineers,
multimedia and game developers, and recording engineers. SONAR supports Wave,
MP3, ACIDized waves, WMA, AIFF and other popular formats, providing all the tools you
need to do professional-quality work rapidly and efficiently.
SONAR is more than an integrated MIDI and digital audio authoring software package—
it’s an expandable platform that can function as the central nervous system of your
recording studio. With drivers for common high-end audio hardware, full support for audio
plug-ins, software synthesizers, StudioWare, MFX MIDI plug-ins, and MIDI Machine
Control (MMC) of external MIDI gear, SONAR can handle your most demanding projects.
About SONAR
SONAR is the flagship product of the Cakewalk line of integrated MIDI and digital audio
sequencers for the Windows platform. SONAR has a comprehensive feature set that
makes it the single most productive tool for sound and music authoring. Here are some of
the ways you can use SONAR.
Next topic: Music Composition and Exploration.
Music Composition and Exploration
SONAR is a powerful music-composition application, providing tools to record your own
musical performances; enhance or improve the quality of those performances; and edit,
arrange, and experiment with the music. With a few simple clicks of the mouse, you can
arrange, orchestrate, and audition your composition. Fully integrated sequencing allows
you to combine the convenience and flexibility of MIDI composition with the high-quality
sound and subtlety of digital audio sound recording and reproduction. Change the feel of a
piece by locking it to a musical groove, or add delicate delays, anticipations, or echoes
that add richness to the music.
SONAR displays and lets you edit your music using standard musical notation and guitar
tablature, so you can adjust individual notes, add performance markings, and print