Reference Guide

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Starting SONAR
Introduction
When starting SONAR, you will see the Quick Start dialog box.
Figure 3. The Quick Start dialog
The Quick Start dialog box has several options:
If you don’t want to see the Quick Start dialog box in the future, uncheck the box at the bottom of
the dialog box, and click Close. You can see the Quick Start dialog box later by choosing Help >
Quick Start.
RIFF/MID will not launch SONAR when double-clicked
Option How to use it
Open a Project Choose a project from the Open File dialog box to open it
Open a Recent Project Select a project from the list, and click this button to open it
Create a New Project Click here to create a new project.
Online Videos and more Click this link to view our tutorial videos online. An active Internet
connection is needed in order to access this content.
Getting Started Click here to view the Getting started topic in the Help file. This topic has
links to a glossary of terms, as well as some basic procedures.
Table 3.
Note: Double-clicking RIFF MIDI files and Standard MIDI files will fail to launch SONAR even
if these file types are associated with SONAR.