Instruction Manual

Synchronizing Your Gear
Your computer is often used with other equipment: sound cards, MIDI equipment, and
digital tape decks or other digital recording tools. All these devices can have their own
built-in clocks or timing mechanisms.
When several pieces of equipment are used together, it’s important that they operate in
synchronization. For this to happen, all the equipment must rely on the same source of
clock or timing information. SONAR lets you use many different types of synchronization
so that you can get your work done quickly and efficiently.
See:
Synchronization Overview
Choosing Clock Sources: SONAR as Master
MIDI Synchronization
SMPTE/MIDI Time Code Synchronization
MIDI Machine Control (MMC)
Synchronization Overview
SONAR supports several different types of synchronization, which rely on a variety of
different clock sources:
Clock source… Timing is determined by…
Internal The clock on the computer
motherboard
Audio The clock on the computer’s sound
card
MIDI Sync The clock on an external MIDI device