Owner`s manual

Close the window.20

Select 21 Key Bindings from the Options menu.

Click the MIDI radio button and check the Enabled box as shown

here.

Click Import...23

Navigate to the M-16DX_EXC.kbn file, highlight it, and click Open to 24

import the file. This file associates the M-16DX’s buttons and knobs

with SONAR/LE features.

Click OK to close the Key Bindings window.

You’re now ready to control SONAR or SONAR LE with the M-16DX.

If SONAR still isn’t responding to the M-16DX, it may have become

confused. Return to the Options menu’s Controllers/Surfaces window,

select Cakewalk Generic Surface and Click the Delete Selected

Controller/Surface button. Click the Add New Controller/Surface

button, and in the window that opens, select Cakewalk Generic

Surface as the Controller/Surface value. Then select 1:EDIROL M-16DX

as both the Input Port and Output Port values. Click OK, then Close,

and then repeat Steps 18 through 20. If this still doesn’t work, quit

SONAR and try the procedure in this note again.

To jump back to the pre-programmed SONAR and SONAR LE

assignments for Alternative mode, click here.

To jump back to the pre-programmed SONAR and SONAR LE

assignments for Exclusive mode, click here.

Adding Control of More SONAR/LE Elements

You can teach parameters within SONAR and SONAR LE—including plug-

in parameters—to respond to the following currently unassigned M-16DX

knobs and buttons using the SONAR’s ACT feature.

EQ FREQ knob • • EQ GAIN knob • AUX 1 MASTER knob

AUX 2 MASTER knob • • FX button

To learn how to teach SONAR/LE to respond to new controls from the

M-16DX:

Create a new controller by repeating Steps 13-17 in the previous

section, selecting ACT MIDI Controller in the Controller/Surface

Popup instead of Cakewalk Generic Surface.

In SONAR’s built-in Help, see “Assigning Controls on Your Controller/

Surface to Cells in the ACT MIDI Property Page” for the rest of the

required steps.