Instruction Manual

770 Notation and Lyrics
Working with Percussion
Setting Up a Percussion Track
Before you use the percussion capabilities of the Staff view, your
percussion track should be set up correctly. This will allow you to hear the
proper sounds when placing notes and during playback, and will allow you
to see the correct percussion instrument names rather than generic note
names in the Piano Roll view, Event List view, and Percussion Notation
dialog box.
To Set Up a Percussion Track
1. Right-click on the track in the Track pane and choose Track
Properties to open the Track Properties dialog box.
2. Assign the output and channel for your percussion instrument. For
example, if the output is assigned to a sound card that supports
General MIDI, use channel 10.
3. Click Instruments to open the Assign Instruments dialog box.
4. Make sure that the output/channel combination used by your track is
assigned to a percussion instrument definition. For example, channel
10 of a General MIDI output should be assigned to the General MIDI
Drums instrument definition.
5. Click OK in both dialog boxes.
SONAR shows the new track output and channel in the Track view, and will
use the proper percussion instrument names in the Piano Roll view, Event
List view, and Percussion Notation dialog box.
For more information about instrument definitions, see the online help topic:
Instrument Definitions.
Setting Up a Percussion Staff or Line
The first time you display a percussion track in the Staff view, SONAR picks
a default percussion clef for the track. Tracks with only one note value are
assigned the Percussion Line clef. Tracks with multiple note values are
assigned the Percussion Staff clef.
If you want to change a Percussion Staff to a Percussion Line or vice versa,
or if you want to change another type of staff to a percussion staff, you can
do so in the Staff View Layout dialog box. If you change a track’s clef to a
non-percussion clef, the percussion notation settings will be lost.
The lowest and highest lines on the Percussion clef are E5 and F6,
respectively. The Percussion Line represents E5.