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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
dropdown arrow and choose Manage Presets from the dropdown menu (this
menu is also available from the MIDI Inputs button in the Track Inputs
dialog).
The MIDI Input Presets dialog 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 checkboxes 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, 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 dropdown menu. If you want to
edit a preset, select it in the top window of the MIDI Input Presets dialog, edit it,
and click the disk icon. If you want to delete a preset, select it in the same dialog
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 Chapter 17, Using System Exclusive Data.
To Filter Event Types
1. Choose Options-Global and click the MIDI tab.
2. Check the message types you want recorded.
3. Click OK.
From now on, SONAR records only the types of events you have chosen.
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