Reference Guide

Synchronizing your gear
Your computer is often used with other equipment: sound cards, MIDI equipment, and digital tape
decks or other digital recording tools. All these devices can have their own built-in clocks or timing
mechanisms.
When several pieces of equipment are used together, it’s important that they operate in
synchronization. For this to happen, all the equipment must rely on the same source of clock or
timing information. SONAR lets you use many different types of synchronization so that you can get
your work done quickly and efficiently.
See:
“Synchronization overview” on page 1154
“Choosing clock sources: SONAR as master” on page 1157
“MIDI synchronization” on page 1158
“SMPTE/MIDI time code synchronization” on page 1162
“MIDI Machine Control (MMC)” on page 1168