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Inserting Soft Synths

• If you opened this dialog from the Insert menu and want to open the

Synth Rack view, check the Open These Windows: Synth Rack

View checkbox.

• If the synth you’re inserting can create or send MIDI data, and you

want to record or redirect this MIDI data, enable the Enable MIDI

Output checkbox.

• Any automation data you create for this synth is displayed by

default on the Synth track for this synth. If you want to display this

data on a different track, choose the track in the Display

Automation On menu.

• If you create some new knobs on the Synth Rack to control certain

parameters on a particular synth, you can display the same knobs

every time you insert that synth by enabling the Recall Assignable

Controls checkbox.

• If you want to open this dialog every time you use the Insert-Soft

Synths command, or click the Insert button in the Synth Rack view

and choose a synth from the popup menu, check the Ask This

Every Time option. If you always insert soft synths in the same way,

you can uncheck this option so you don’t have to deal with the

dialog each time. To open the dialog when the option is unchecked,

click the Insert Soft Synth Options button in the Synth Rack

view toolbar.

5. Click OK to close the dialog and insert the synth.

SONAR adds the soft synth to the audio track input and MIDI track output

menus, and creates any new tracks that you requested. The new tracks

already have the correct inputs and outputs patched. Now you can record

MIDI data in the soft synth MIDI tracks, and/or play the soft synth from a

MIDI keyboard or controller. See Playing a Soft Synth.

To Insert a Soft Synth in an FX Bin

1. In either the Track or Console view, right-click the FX bin of an unused

audio track or bus.

Note: If you patch a soft synth into a bus that has no audio track

assigned to it, the soft synth does not sound. Always use a bus that has

at least one audio track sending data to it.

The plug-in menu appears.

2. Under Soft Synths, choose the name of a soft synth.