Reference Guide

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Starting SONAR
Introduction
your sound card or MIDI keyboard, or if you just want to change the MIDI outputs and devices that
you are using, follow the steps in this section.
Choose Options > MIDI Devices to open a dialog box in which you select the MIDI In and MIDI Out
devices that SONAR will use. Each item in the list is a MIDI Input or MIDI Output from drivers
installed using the Windows Control Panel.
1. Select Options > MIDI Devices. You will see the MIDI Devices dialog box, which lets you choose
instruments on MIDI inputs and outputs.
Figure 4. The MIDI Devices dialog
2. Look at the top window. Notice that it shows devices on MIDI Inputs; make sure that all devices in
this window are checked. If a device isn’t checked, click on it once to select it for MIDI Input.
3. Look at the window on the bottom. Notice that it shows devices on MIDI Outputs. SONAR
numbers its MIDI Outputs by the order of the devices in this window. The device on top is on
Output 1, the one below it is on Output 2, and so on.
4. Check one device at a time in the Outputs window and click Move Selected Devices to Top to
change its order. Then check all the devices that appear in the window to select them for output.
See MIDI Devices dialog.
Tip: Be sure to enable (check) MIDI output devices in the MIDI Devices dialog (use the Options >
MIDI Devices
command). If you don’t do this, you won’t hear any of your MIDI instruments when you
play songs in SONAR.