Instruction Manual

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Starting SONAR
Introduction
Running Wave Profiler
The first time you start SONAR, it automatically runs the Wave Profiler
utility. Wave Profiler determines the proper MIDI and Audio timings for your
sound card and writes them to a file that SONAR refers to when using the
card. Wave Profiler does not change the sound card’s DMA, IRQ, or port
address settings.
Wave Profiler detects the make and model of your sound card, which
determine the card’s audio characteristics. If Wave Profiler finds a card that
has a WDM driver, it only profiles that card. If you want to use more than
one sound card at a time, and they don’t both have WDM drivers, you must
force the one with the WDM driver to use that driver as an older, MME
driver. It is not necessary to run the Wave Profiler for a sound card using an
ASIO driver. For more information about Wave Profiler, WDM, and MME,
see the online help topic The Wave Profiler When Wave Profiler determines
the kind of card you have, always accept the default settings.
Note: You can run the Wave Profiler again at a later time (for example, if
you install a new sound card or driver) by choosing the Options-Audio
General tab command and clicking Wave Profiler.
Setting Up the MIDI In and MIDI Out Devices
When you start SONAR for the first time, it checks your computer to find all
the MIDI input and output devices you have installed (such as sound cards
Setting... Description…
Global Options Settings in the Global Options dialog.
Open by selecting Options-Global.
Key Bindings Your customized key bindings for
controlling SONAR using your MIDI
keyboard or computer keyboard.
Instrument Definitions Files used to control specific MIDI
instruments.
Audio data directory (WaveData
folder) and Picture Cache
directory locations
SONAR uses the Data directory and
Picture Cache directories from the
previous Cakewalk version for storing
project wave files and their waveform
image files.