User's Guide

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My Keyboard Doubles Every Note I Play
When your keyboard doubles the notes, each note seems heavier or thicker than usual, as if two
notes of the same pitch are emitted when you press the key. Also, you may find that you can play
only half as many notes at one time before some of the held notes drop out.
This can occur when MIDI echo is enabled. The keyboard plays the note for the key you’ve pressed.
At the same time, the note is sent through the MIDI interface and echoed back to the keyboard,
where it is played a second time.
The best way to resolve the problem is to disable Local Control on the keyboard, following the
instructions that came with the keyboard. This stops the keyboard from playing independently. The
keys you play still produce sound on the keyboard because they are echoed back by the MIDI
interface. In many cases, SONAR disables local control automatically when the program is started,
but this is not always possible.
It’s also possible that your keyboard is transmitting information on two channels at once. To see if
this is so, create a new project and record two notes from the keyboard. Then look at what you’ve
recorded in the Event list view. If you see four notes displayed instead of two, then your keyboard is
transmitting on two channels. See the documentation for your keyboard to learn how to correct the
problem.
I Don’t See the Clips Pane in the Track View
The splitter bar may be so far to the right that the Track pane fills the entire Track view. Here’s how
to solve the problem:
1. Place your cursor over the splitter bar. It is located on the far right side of the Track view, just to
the left of the vertical scroll bar. When you place the cursor over the splitter it changes to a
double-headed arrow.
2. Click and drag the splitter bar to the left. You should be all set.
Why Can’t SONAR Find My Audio Files?
SONAR looks for all audio data in a certain directory or folder, called the Data Directory, in Cakewalk
Projects (or the WaveData Directory in previous versions of Cakewalk products). If you have
renamed or moved either SONAR or the Data Directory, SONAR may not be able to find your audio
files. If you know where the audio files are stored, choose Options > Audio, click Advanced and
enter the full path name of the directory in the Data Directory box. If you don’t know where the audio
data are stored, choose Start > Find > Files or Folders and search for files named *.wav.
For more information about the wavedata folder, see the online Help topic “Audio File Management”.