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Tutorial 1—The Basics
The first tutorial teaches you the basics of SONAR. You'll learn how to:
• Open and play a project file
• Make the project repeat automatically
•Use markers
• Speed or slow the tempo
• Mute a track and play a track solo
• Change a track's instrument
• Play a track on a MIDI instrument
If you have not already done so, please read Chapter 1, Introduction, for basic
background information about projects, tracks, clips, the Track view, and the
Console view.
Opening a Project File
As you learned in Chapter 1, SONAR stores MIDI and digital audio data in
project files. The first thing you need to do is load a project file.
To Open a Project File
1. If you haven't already done so, start SONAR.
2. Choose File-Open.
3. In the Open dialog box, navigate to the directory in which you installed
SONAR, double-click the Tutorials folder to open it and select the file
TUTORIAL1.CWP.
4. Click the Open button.
SONAR loads the project and opens the Track view. Feel free to move and resize
the Track view to better fit your screen.
Setting Outputs
Before you can play a project, you must set the outputs for both MIDI sounds and
audio sounds. By setting the outputs, you are telling SONAR from which outputs
you want to hear the sounds. You may have a sound card with just one output or
several sound cards, each with several outputs. These sound cards may contain
their own synthesizers, which SONAR sees as MIDI outputs. Also, if you have a
separate MIDI interface connected to your computer, it has one or more MIDI
outputs.
Before we assign a track to an output, let’s make sure the outputs we want to use
are available.
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