Reference Guide

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Starting SONAR
Introduction
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
Migrating preferences
If you have a previous version of Cakewalk installed, SONAR will detect it and give you the option of
migrating certain preferences from a single earlier version.
When you choose to migrate preferences, SONAR migrates the following settings from an earlier
Cakewalk version:
Running Wave Profiler
The first time you start SONAR, it automatically runs the Wave Profiler utility. Wave Profiler
determines the proper MIDI and Audio timings for your sound card and writes them to a file that
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Getting Started Click here to view the “Getting started” on page 3 topic in the Help file.
This topic has links to a glossary of terms, as well as some basic
procedures.
Note: Double-clicking RIFF MIDI files and Standard MIDI files will fail to launch SONAR even if
these file types are associated with SONAR.
Setting Description
Global Options Global settings in the Preferences dialog. Open by selecting Edit >
Preferences.
Key Bindings Your customized key bindings for controlling SONAR using your MIDI
keyboard or computer keyboard.
Instrument Definitions Files used to control specific MIDI instruments.
Audio data directory (WaveData
folder) and Picture Cache directory
locations
SONAR uses the Data directory and Picture Cache directories from the
previous Cakewalk version for storing project wave files and their
waveform image files.
Table 2.
Option How to use it
Table 1.