CAKEWALK SONAR - Stand-alone Synths

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• My MIDI Controller Works in SONAR or my ReWire Application, but
not Both—Choose different MIDI In ports for both SONAR and your ReWire
application. Do this in SONAR by using the Options-MIDI Devices
command, and highlighting the MIDI In port you want to use in SONAR. If
you only have one MIDI In port on your MIDI interface or sound card, enable
that input in either SONAR or your ReWire application, and disable that
input in the other application.
• I Get a MIDI Input Error Message When I Open a ReWire
Application—If you only have one MIDI Input port on your MIDI interface,
you probably have that one reserved for SONAR, leaving none for your ReWire
application. If you would rather use your MIDI controller in the ReWire
application instead of SONAR, you can deselect your MIDI input port in
SONAR’s MIDI Devices dialog (Options-MIDI Devices command), and then
select that MIDI Input from whatever menu your ReWire application has for
that purpose. If you have multiple inputs on your MIDI interface, simply
select different ones for SONAR and your ReWire application.
Stand-alone Synths
After you install this kind of synth and restart your computer, the name of the
synth’s MIDI driver appears in SONAR’s MIDI Devices dialog box under Outputs.
Playing a Stand-alone Synth
SONAR plays this kind of synth by seeing it as additional MIDI outputs in both
the MIDI Devices dialog box and in MIDI tracks’ output fields.
To Play a Stand-alone Synth
1. Use the Options-MIDI Devices command to open the MIDI Devices dialog
box.
2. In the Outputs field, make sure the name of your stand-alone synth’s MIDI
driver is highlighted, and click OK.
3. Click the Output field of an unused MIDI track to display the output menu.
4. Select the name of the stand-alone synth’s MIDI driver.
5. If your stand-alone synth is multi-timbral, change the track’s MIDI channel to
the same one that the synth uses for the sound you want to hear.
6. Select a bank and patch on your stand-alone synth, if you haven’t already.
7. Record some MIDI data in the MIDI track, or play any MIDI controller that’s
an input for the MIDI track.
When you play your MIDI controller or play back the recorded MIDI data, you
should hear the stand-alone synth through your sound card’s outputs. If you don’t,