Reference Guide

748 Editing MIDI events and continuous controllers (CC)
The Event List view
SONAR uses the following notation to display flats and sharps in this and other views:
MCIcmd events
Media Control Interface (MCI) commands are special events that let you control other multimedia
hardware and software (e.g., CD-ROM drives, laserdiscs, sound cards, animations, video) during
playback. MCI commands are part of the multimedia extensions in Windows. MCIcmd events have
one parameter—the command line text of the MCI command. Here are some examples:
While MCI commands can be used to play Wave files, these files are played at their normal speed
and are not necessarily synchronized with MIDI or other audio data. By contrast, Wave audio clips
are played in lock-step synchronization with MIDI and other audio data.
For complete documentation of Windows MCI commands, search for MCI on the Microsoft World
Wide Web site (www.microsoft.com).
Character Meaning
bflat
# sharp
" double flat
x double sharp
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This command Does this
PLAY C:\Train.wav Plays the Wave file Train.wav
PLAY C:\Videos\Vacation.avi Plays the video file Vacation.avi from the VIDEOS folder
SET CDAUDIO TIME FORMAT TMSF PLAY
CDAUDIO 3
Plays a specific track from the CD drive
STOP CDAUDIO Stops the CD from playing
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