Instruction Manual

814 System Exclusive Data
Importing, Creating, and Dumping Sysx Banks
To Dump a Sysx Bank into SONAR
1. Choose Options-Global and click the MIDI tab, and make sure that the
System Exclusive item is checked. If it isn’t, SONAR won’t receive
System Exclusive messages.
2. In the Sysx view, select an empty bank to dump the new bank into
(unless you want to add to or overwrite an existing bank).
3. Click the Receive Bank button (or press c on your computer
keyboard).
The Receive System Exclusive dialog appears, which contains a list of
Dump Request Macros (DRMs). Each DRM has a name that describes
the synthesizer the DRM controls and the type of data that the DRM
asks the synthesizer to send.
4. Do one of the following:
• If the name of your instrument and the kind of data you want to
store in SONAR appears in the list, select your choice and click OK.
• If your instrument and the type of data you want to record are not in
the list, select You start dump on instrument, click OK, and press
whatever button on your synthesizer that starts a Sysx bank dump.
The You start dump on instrument option is not really a Dump
Request Macro. It tells SONAR that you will initiate a dump (or
multiple dumps) from the front panel of the synthesizer.
5. The DRM may prompt you for additional information, which you should
supply.
• Patch number: DRMs that are written to request an individual
patch or configuration give you this prompt, so you can specify the
one you want to have dumped.
• Channel/unit number: Most synthesizers have a Sysx channel or
unit number. This covers the situation in which you own two of the
exact same synthesizer, and want to do Sysx with each