Reference Guide

1144 System exclusive data
Importing, creating, and dumping Sysx banks
To dump a Sysx bank into SONAR
1. Go to Edit > Preferences > MIDI - Playback and Recording and make sure the System
Exclusive check box is selected. If it isn’t, SONAR won’t receive System Exclusive messages.
2. In the Sysx view, select an empty bank to dump the new bank into (unless you want to add to or
overwrite an existing bank).
3. Click the Sysx view File menu and choose Receive.
The Receive System Exclusive dialog box appears, which contains a list of Dump Request
Macros (DRMs). Each DRM has a name that describes the synthesizer the DRM controls and
the type of data that the DRM asks the synthesizer to send.
4. Do one of the following:
• If the name of your instrument and the kind of data you want to store in SONAR appears in the
list, select your choice and click OK.
• If your instrument and the type of data you want to record are not in the list, select You start
dump on instrument, click OK, and press whatever button on your synthesizer that starts a
Sysx bank dump. The You start dump on instrument option is not really a Dump Request
Macro. It tells SONAR that you will initiate a dump (or multiple dumps) from the front panel of
the synthesizer.
5. The DRM may prompt you for additional information, which you should supply.
• Patch number: DRMs that are written to request an individual patch or configuration give you
this prompt, so you can specify the one you want to have dumped.
• Channel/unit number: Most synthesizers have a Sysx channel or unit number. This covers
the situation in which you own two of the exact same synthesizer, and want to do Sysx with
each independently. Your synthesizer manual should describe the factory-set number.