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You can choose one of two options to define the key binding shift key:
• MIDI key (typically, the very lowest or highest key on your MIDI keyboard)
• Controller event (typically, one of the pedals)
If you use a MIDI key as the key binding shift key, then you lose the ability to play
that note by itself. When you play the note, SONAR assumes you are about to
choose one of the key bindings you have created and ignores the note. If this is ever
a problem, you can disable MIDI key bindings without canceling the key
assignments and then re-enable the MIDI key bindings later on.
You can use a key binding to execute a command only when that command is
possible. For example, the File-Save command is disabled when no projects are
open. If you have assigned the Ctrl+F2 key combination to the File-Save
command, it won’t do anything when no projects are open.
You can use MIDI key bindings and computer keyboard key bindings at the same
time.
You use the Options-Key Bindings command to set up and manage your key
bindings. Here’s how:
To Create a Key Binding Using the Computer Keyboard
1. Choose Options-Key Bindings to display the Key Bindings dialog.
2. Check Computer in the Type of Keys list.
3. To quickly scroll to the key or key combination you want, click the Locate Key
button, and then press the key or keys you want to use.
4. Highlight the key combination you want to use in the Key list. Keys on the
number pad appear as Num “n.” If a key or combination is already bound to a
command by default, the name of the key appears in bold text, and the
command it is bound to appears at the bottom of the dialog under Current Key
Assignment. Binding a key or combination to a command and clicking OK
overwrites any default binding for that key or combination.
5. In the Bind Context menu, select the context in which you want to use the key
binding.
6. Highlight the command you want to assign from the Function list.
7. Click Bind to bind the key combination to the command.
SONAR places an asterisk next to the key(s) that you chose, and draws a line
from the highlighted key(s) to the command that the key(s) will trigger. Any
keys that are assigned to commands have asterisks next to them. Any
commands that have keys assigned to them list the keys in the Computer
column and/or the MIDI column.
8. Repeat steps 3 through 7 for all the keys you want to bind.
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