Reference Guide

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Dialog Reference

Apply MIDI Effects dialog

When you select Apply MIDI Effects from the Process menu, the Apply MIDI Effects dialog box

appears. This dialog box lets you select options for applying MIDI effects to selected MIDI data. You

can choose to delete the effect from the patch point after it is applied, so that it will not be reapplied

on playback.

See also:

Applying MIDI Effects

Assign Instruments dialog

The Options > Instruments command opens the Assign Instruments dialog box. This command

lets you choose one or more output/channel configurations and assign an instrument to it or them.

SONAR lets you assign a MIDI instrument definition to each available MIDI output and channel. The

assignments you make determine the MIDI bank names, patch names, note names, and controller

names that you see during your SONAR session.

Suppose that you have a Roland GS compatible synthesizer attached to MIDI output 1. By assigning

all 16 channels of MIDI output 1 to the Roland GS instrument definition, you ensure that the bank,

patch, note and controller name lists you see displayed in SONAR are the ones that match your

synthesizer.

Often, you want to assign a different instrument to channel 10, which is usually used for percussion.

For example, you might assign the Roland GS instrument definition to channels 1 through 9 and 11

through 16, but you would most likely want to assign the Roland GS Drumsets instrument definition

to channel 10. If you have several MIDI outputs, with a different instrument attached to each one,

you would normally assign a different instrument to each MIDI output.

For convenience, you can assign a block of channels to one instrument, and then change the

assignment of one or more of those channels without changing the others. For example, you can

highlight all 16 channels of the first MIDI output and assign them to the Roland GS instrument

definition. Then, you can highlight channel 10 of the first MIDI output and assign it to the Roland GS

Drumset instrument definition. Channels 1 through 9 and 11 through 16 on the first MIDI output will

stay assigned to Roland GS.

You might also want to split channels to different instruments if you have several instruments

attached to a single MIDI output. For example, you might have a Roland synth receiving on MIDI

channels 1-9, a Roland drum machine receiving on channel 10, and a basic GM-compatible synth

receiving on channels 11 through 16. In this case, you'd use three different instrument definitions for

your one and only MIDI output.

The Assign Instruments dialog box has the following fields: