Reference Guide

Starting SONAR

Introduction

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

SONAR refers to when using the card. Wave Profiler does not change the sound card’s DMA, IRQ,

or port address settings.Wave Profiler detects the make and model of your sound card, which

determine the card’s audio characteristics. If Wave Profiler finds a card that has a WDM driver, it

only profiles that card. If you want to use more than one sound card at a time, and they don’t both

have WDM drivers, you must force the one with the WDM driver to use that driver as an older, MME

driver. It is not necessary to run the Wave Profiler for a sound card using an ASIO driver. For more

information about Wave Profiler, WDM, and MME, see “The Wave Profiler” on page 1182.

When Wave Profiler determines the kind of card you have, always accept the default settings.Setting

up the MIDI In and MIDI Out devices

When you start SONAR for the first time, it checks your computer to find all the MIDI input and

output devices you have installed (such as sound cards and MIDI interfaces). However, sometimes

you need to tell SONAR exactly which devices you want it to use. If you’re not getting sound from

your sound card or MIDI keyboard, or if you just want to change the MIDI outputs and devices that

you are using, follow the steps in this section.

Choose Edit > Preferences > MIDI - Devices to open a dialog box in which you select the MIDI In

and MIDI Out devices that SONAR will use. Each item in the list is a MIDI Input or MIDI Output from

drivers installed using the Windows Control Panel.Select Edit > Preferences to open the

Preferences dialog box, then click MIDI - Devices. This dialog box lets you choose instruments on

MIDI inputs and outputs.

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.

Note: You can run the Wave Profiler again at a later time (for example, if you install a new sound

card or driver) by choosing the Edit > Preferences > Audio - Driver Settings command and

clicking Wave Profiler.

Note: You can run the Wave Profiler again at a later time (for example, if you install a new sound

card or driver) by choosing the Edit > Preferences > Audio - Devices command and clicking

Launch Audio Profiler.

Setting Description

Table 2.