Reference Guide

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Software Instruments
ReWire
Inserting a ReWire Instrument
To Use Separate Synth Tracks for Each ReWire Device
Automating ReWire Instruments
Mixing Down ReWire Instruments
ReWire Troubleshooting Guide
Inserting a ReWire Instrument
After you install your ReWire applications and reboot your computer, the names of the ReWire
applications appear in SONAR’s Insert menu under ReWire Devices, and also in the Synth Rack
view’s Insert button pop-up menu.
To Insert a ReWire Instrument
1. Open a SONAR project. Do not launch your ReWire application.
2. In the SONAR’s Synth Rack view, click the Insert button, and click ReWire Devices to display the
submenu of installed ReWire devices.
OR
Use the Insert > ReWire Devices command to display the submenu of installed ReWire devices.
3. Click the name of the ReWire device you want to insert.
The Insert Soft Synth Options dialog appears.
4. Choose options from the Insert Soft Synth Options dialog according to the following:
• If you want to create a MIDI track that uses the ReWire Instrument as an output, check the
Create These Tracks: MIDI Source check box.
• If you want to create a single synth track that acts as an output for Output 1 of the ReWire
Instrument, check the Create These Tracks: First Synth Audio Output check box.
• If you want to create separate synth tracks for each of the ReWire Instrument’s outputs, check
the Create These Tracks: All Synth Audio Outputs check box.
• If you want to use existing MIDI and audio tracks to play the ReWire Instrument, uncheck all of
the Create These Tracks options. SONAR adds the ReWire Instrument to the audio track Input
and MIDI track Output menus. You need to set an existing audio track’s Input field to the
ReWire Instrument, and set an existing MIDI track’s Output field to the ReWire Instrument.
The existing audio track will then become a synth track.
• If you want to open the ReWire Instrument’s interface from this dialog, check the Open These
Windows: Synth Property Page check box (always check this option: ReWire Instruments
do not sound unless their property pages are open).
• If you opened this dialog from the Insert menu and want to open the Synth Rack view, check
the Open These Windows: Synth Rack View check box.
• If you want to open this dialog every time you use the Insert > ReWire Instrument command,
or click the Insert button in the Synth Rack view and choose a ReWire instrument from the
pop-up menu, check the Ask This Every Time option. If you always insert ReWire Instruments