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MIDI Effects (MIDI Plug-ins)
Editing MIDI Events and Continuous Controllers (CC)
SONAR uses the following notation to display flats and sharps in this and other views:
MCIcmd Events
Media Control Interface (MCI) commands are special events that let you control other multimedia
hardware and software (e.g., CD-ROM drives, laserdiscs, sound cards, animations, video) during
playback. MCI commands are part of the multimedia extensions in Windows. MCIcmd events have
one parameter—the command line text of the MCI command. Here are some examples:
While MCI commands can be used to play Wave files, these files are played at their normal speed
and are not necessarily synchronized with MIDI or other audio data. By contrast, Wave audio clips
are played in lock-step synchronization with MIDI and other audio data.
For complete documentation of Windows MCI commands, search for MCI on the Microsoft World
Wide Web site (www.microsoft.com).
MIDI Effects (MIDI Plug-ins)
SONAR provides the ability to use plug-in MIDI effects. Using plug-in effects is similar to using the
MIDI processing commands off-line. The overall procedure is as follows:
• Select the MIDI data to be affected.
• Choose the effect you want from the Process > MIDI Effects menu or from the pop-up menu’s
MIDI Effects menu.
Character Meaning
bflat
# sharp
" double flat
x double sharp
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This command Does this
PLAY C:\Train.wav Plays the Wave file Train.wav
PLAY C:\Videos\Vacation.avi Plays the video file Vacation.avi from the VIDEOS folder
SET CDAUDIO TIME FORMAT TMSF PLAY
CDAUDIO 3
Plays a specific track from the CD drive
STOP CDAUDIO Stops the CD from playing
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