Instruction Manual

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Transmitting Banks During Playback
System Exclusive Data
Load Bank and Save Bank
You can import banks from and save banks to files with the file extension
.
SYX. If you try to import to a bank that isn’t empty, SONAR asks if you want
to append or replace. The Load and Save buttons work only with .
SYX, not
SONAR project files or MIDI files.
You may also use this feature to copy a Sysx bank between two SONAR
project files. Save the bank into a file, load the other SONAR project file,
then load the bank again. This is also a good way to copy one bank to
another in the same project file. The shortcut keys are o and v respectively.
To Export a Sysx Bank to Another Project
1. In the Sysx view, select the bank you want to export.
2. Click the Save Bank button .
The Save As dialog appears.
3. Navigate to the folder in which you want to store the file.
4. Enter a file name and click OK.
SONAR saves the file in the location you specified, with the extension
.
SYX.
5. Open the project to which you want to import the bank and select an
empty bank in the Sysx view (unless you want to add the file to an
existing bank).
6. Click the Load Bank from File button to open the Open dialog.
7. Navigate to the desired folder, select the .
SYX file you want to import,
and click Open.
SONAR loads the selected bank into the current project.
Transmitting Banks During Playback
SONAR has a special meta-event, Sysx Bank, that lets you play a System
Exclusive bank at a specified time in your project. You can use a Sysx
meta-event to send any of the 8192 available Sysx banks at any time in a
sequence. To do this, you have to insert a new event in the Event List using
the Insert key on the PC keyboard. Next you have to double-click Event
Kind and change it to System Exclusive. In the Values column, select the
bank (0-8191) that you want to send.