Reference Guide

Tutorial 1 – Creating, playing, and saving
projects
Understanding and managing project files is central to your workflow in SONAR. In this tutorial, we are
going to cover the basics of getting started with project files and some of the operations that can be
performed with them. Whenever you write or record music in SONAR, you are writing it to be saved into
a project. A project can contain a variety of elements, including:
• Audio tracks
• MIDI tracks
• Instrument tracks
• Audio effects
• Project settings such as Tempo, Key and Meter changes
• Lyrics and notation
See:
“Creating a new project” on page 102
“Opening project files” on page 105
“Playing project files” on page 107
“Looping project files” on page 111
“Saving project files” on page 112