Instruction Manual

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Importing, Creating, and Dumping Sysx Banks

System Exclusive Data

independently. Your synthesizer manual should describe the

factory-set number.

When your instrument starts sending the bank, the Sysx Receive

window counts the bytes as SONAR receives them. If the count stays at

zero for more than a couple of seconds, something is wrong. The

synthesizer may not be hooked up to the MIDI interface in both

directions, or you may have answered a DRM prompt incorrectly. Click

Cancel. If any data were received, you will see the number of bytes in

the bank list.

6. Once the bytes received count stops increasing, you can click Done to

tell SONAR to stop receiving. However, if your synthesizer also displays

a message when the instrument is finished sending a bank, wait until

that message says the transmission is finished before you click Done.

The currently selected bank now holds the received Sysx data. At this point,

you may want to give the bank a descriptive name by selecting it and

clicking .