User's Guide

Finding and previewing audio loops

6. Click the Play button in the Media Browser toolbar.

The selected file is previewed.

If you don’t hear anything, revisit the settings of your Audio Preview Bus, as discussed above, and

ensure that it is set to the audio device that your headphones or speakers are connected to.

If you need to preview a lot of loops quickly, enable the Auto-Preview function . When enabled,

an audio loop will start playing as soon as you select it.

Previewing MIDI groove clips

In addition to audio loops, the Media Browser view also allows you to preview MIDI groove clips.

Let’s try this now with one of the clips included with SONAR. Unlike audio loops, MIDI groove clips

require a soft synth or instrument track to play through.

1. Click the Insert Soft Synth button , point to Soft Synths and select Cakewalk TTS-1.

The Insert Soft Synth Options dialog appears.

2. Clear all of the check boxes except for Single Track Instrument, Recall Assignable Controls,

and Ask This Every Time.

3. Click OK.

Cakewalk TTS-1 is added to your project.

Now that we have a synth in our project that we can preview MIDI groove clips with, let’s find some

and give them a listen.

1. Using the same process we did to find audio loops, use the Folders and Explorer panes to

browse to My Documents\Cakewalk\SONAR\Sample Content\Smart Loops.

2. Locate the MIDI groove clip named Bangin 10.mid.

Before we can preview a MIDI groove clip, we need to tell SONAR what instrument or synth we

would like to preview it with.

3. In the Preview Synth pane, select Cakewalk TTS-1 1.