Instruction Manual

810 System Exclusive Data

What Is System Exclusive?

System Exclusive data is MIDI’s way of letting each synthesizer

manufacturer transmit private data about its products. A System Exclusive

message has a manufacturer ID; the rest of the message is completely

proprietary and varies for each manufacturer, even for each of its products.

SONAR does not understand what this data means; it simply can hold onto

it for you. You can take snapshots of your equipment’s configuration and

store them in SONAR’s System Exclusive banks for transmitting back to the

equipment. You may want to do this simply to back up your equipment’s

patches and/or settings, much like backing up your computer’s hard drive in

case something goes wrong. Or you may configure your equipment

differently for each project’s requirements, which is why storing System

Exclusive banks with each SONAR project file can be useful. Of course, for

merely backing up your equipment, you can have a project containing only

System Exclusive data and no notes.

See:

Sysx Events

Using the System Exclusive View

Sending Sysx Banks at Startup

Transmitting Banks During Playback

Real-time Recording of System Exclusive Messages

Sysx Echo

Sysx .

INI File Settings

Troubleshooting

Sysx Events

SONAR provides two distinct kinds of Sysx events: Sysx Bank and Sysx

Data.

• Sysx Bank: You can use Sysx Bank events to transmit one of the

project’s 8192 banks of System Exclusive data. These banks can be

recorded, viewed, and edited in the Sysx view, and each bank can

contain one or more very large System Exclusive messages. Sysx

Banks may also be marked Auto, so that they are sent when the file is

loaded rather than during the start of playback.

• Sysx Data: You can also use Sysx Data events, which can each