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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 Options-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.
1. Select Options-MIDI Devices. You will see the MIDI Devices dialog box,
which lets you choose instruments on MIDI inputs and outputs.
2. Look at the left window. Notice that it shows devices on MIDI Inputs; make
sure that all devices in this window are highlighted. If a device isn’t
highlighted, click on it once to select it for MIDI Input.
3. Look at the window on the right. Notice that it shows devices on MIDI
Outputs. SONAR numbers its MIDI Outputs by the order of the devices in this
window. The device on top is on Output 1, the one below it is on Output 2, and
so on.
4. Highlight one device at a time in the Outputs window and click Move Selected
Devices to Top to change its order. Then highlight all the devices that appear
in the window to select them for output.
Device selected for MIDI input
Devices selected for MIDI output
Device not
selected for MIDI
output
Click here to
change order of
MIDI devices
Tip!
Be sure to choose MIDI output devices from Options-MIDI Devices.
If you don’t do this, you won’t hear any of your MIDI instruments
when you play songs in SONAR.
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