User's Guide

Starting to use SONAR

This chapter has provided you with an overview of SONAR and basic information on how to install

the software and configure your system.

The following tutorials will give you some hands-on practice in playing, recording, and mixing your

projects. If you have not already done so, you may want to refer to “SONAR basics” on page 26 to

get the most out of these tutorials.

Tutorial 1 – Creating, playing, and saving projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Tutorial 2 – Using the Media Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Tutorial 3 – Recording vocals and musical instruments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Tutorial 4 – Playing and recording software instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Tutorial 5 – Working with music notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Tutorial 6 – Editing your music. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Tutorial 7 – Mixing and adding effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Tutorial 8 – Working with video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Tutorial 9 – Exporting, CD burning and sharing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Note: If, during installation, you chose in the Select Components dialog not to install the

Tutorials folder (part of the Sample files), you will not have access to the sample tutorial files

needed to follow the tutorials in this chapter. If you didn’t install these files, insert your product

disc and copy the files to your hard drive.