Instruction Manual

818 System Exclusive Data
Sysx View Buttons
Clear Bank
This deletes the selected bank. The shortcut key is d.
Name
You may enter a description for a bank by clicking this button. Names are
saved only in .
CWP and .CWB files. The shortcut key is n.
Auto
The Auto option tells SONAR to transmit that bank every time it loads the
project file. You might use this option for banks that contain System
Exclusive messages that load a set of sounds for a synthesizer at or before
the start of a project.
Before transmitting, SONAR asks your permission. This is a safety feature
for loading a file you have received from someone else; if it happens to
contain data for your synthesizer(s), you might lose your patches and
configuration information. However, if you don’t want to be asked, choose
Options-Global, click the General tab, and uncheck the box labeled Ask
Before Sending Sysx. The shortcut key is a.
Output
Each bank is transmitted to a particular MIDI output, just as a track is. Click
this button to change the output. The shortcut key is p.
Edit Bytes
Although SONAR’s Sysx features are designed mainly to store System
Exclusive data for you, you can edit the bytes of shorter messages in hex
format (many of the more popular synthesizers have special patch-editing
programs available that let you edit data using sliders and other tools rather
than raw hex data).
When you select a bank and click the Edit Bytes button, SONAR converts
the binary data into a text representation and pops up the Edit System
Exclusive Bytes dialog box, in which you can edit the text. If you make
changes and click OK to keep them, SONAR tries to convert the text back
into binary format. You’ll get an error message if the text does not begin
with an F0 and end with an F7, which are the System Exclusive begin and
end bytes.
SONAR may not be able to convert the data to text format. The text
representation requires three to four times more memory than the data
itself, and the Edit System Exclusive Bytes dialog box can contain roughly
as much text as Notepad. The shortcut key is e.