Reference Guide

300 Recording
Recording specific ports and channels
• Manage Presets. If you want to create or edit any preset collections of input ports and
channels, you can select this option (see following procedure).
2. Click OK.
SONAR shows new track inputs in the Input fields in the Track pane.
To create or edit a preset input configuration
1. In the Input field of a track that you want to select inputs for, click the drop-down arrow and
choose Manage Presets from the drop-down menu (this menu is also available from the MIDI
Inputs button in the Track Inputs dialog).
The MIDI Input Presets dialog box appears.
2. In the Input Port column, find the input port that you want to use for this track (if you only use a
single-port MIDI interface, you’ll only see one choice).
3. To the right of the input port, select the MIDI channels that you want this track to respond to on
this MIDI port. Clicking the OMNI button in this row of MIDI channels clears or fills all the check
boxes in this row.
4. Select channels for any other MIDI port that’s listed, if you want to use channels on that port also.
5. If you want to save this configuration, type a name for it in the window at the top of the dialog
box, and click the disk icon to save it.
Now, when you choose inputs for other tracks, you can choose the preset you saved by clicking the
Presets option in the track’s Input drop-down menu. If you want to edit a preset, select it in the top
window of the MIDI Input Presets dialog box, edit it, and click the disk icon. If you want to delete a
preset, select it in the same dialog box and click the X button to delete it.
Input filtering
SONAR lets you filter out specific types of MIDI messages or filter the MIDI input stream channel by
channel. Any MIDI information that is filtered out is neither recorded nor echoed to any other MIDI
devices.
You can use the message type filter to screen out resource-intensive MIDI messages like key and
channel aftertouch. By default, SONAR records all types of events except these two.
You can use message-type filtering to record short System Exclusive (Sysx) messages in real-time.
These will end up in the track as Sysx data events, which can hold System Exclusive messages up
to 255 bytes. Leave the Buffers setting at 128 unless you experience data not being recorded. For
more information about Sysx, see “System exclusive data” on page 1139.
To filter event types
1. Go to Edit > Preferences > MIDI - Playback and Recording.
2. Check the message types you want recorded.
3. Click OK.
From now on, SONAR records only the types of events you have chosen.