Instruction Manual

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Playing a Soft Synth
Software Synthesizers
8. Make sure that the MIDI track has the focus (its titlebar is lighter), and
play your MIDI controller.
When you play your MIDI controller you should hear the soft synth through
your sound card’s outputs. If you don’t, make sure you’re playing in the right
range; a bank, patch, and channel are selected; your monitor speakers or
headphones are turned up; your controller is attached to your MIDI
interface; and that none of the relevant tracks are muted.
To Remove A Soft Synth from a Track or Bus
• If your soft synth is patched into the FX bin of an audio track or bus,
right-click the name of the soft synth, and choose Delete from the
popup menu.
OR
• In the synth track that uses the soft synth as an input, choose another
input for the track. If you don’t select another soft synth as an input, the
synth track becomes a regular audio track.
To Remove a Soft Synth from a Project
• If your soft synth is patched into the FX bin of an audio track or bus,
right-click the name of the soft synth, and choose Delete from the
popup menu.
• If your soft synth is patched into the Input field of a synth track, go to the
Synth Rack view, click the name of the soft synth to select it, and then
click the Delete button. SONAR deletes the soft synth strip from the
Synth Rack view and sets the inputs and MIDI outputs of all affected
tracks to the next lower-numbered option. SONAR does not delete the
affected tracks.
Note: If you’re using a ReWire instrument and not a soft synth, always
close the ReWire instrument’s interface before you delete the
instrument from SONAR, or before you close SONAR.
See:
Playing a Stand-alone Synth
Converting Your Soft Synth Tracks to Audio
Recording a Stand-alone Synth