CAKEWALK SONAR - Setting up a Percussion Staff or Line

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To Set Up a Percussion Track
1. Right-click on the track in the Track pane and choose Track Properties to
open the Track Properties dialog box.
2. Assign the output and channel for your percussion instrument. For example, if
the output is assigned to a sound card that supports General MIDI, use
channel 10.
3. Click Instruments to open the Assign Instruments dialog box.
4. Make sure that the output/channel combination used by your track is assigned
to a percussion instrument definition. For example, channel 10 of a General
MIDI output should be assigned to the General MIDI Drums instrument
definition.
5. Click OK in both dialog boxes.
SONAR shows the new track output and channel in the Track view, and will use
the proper percussion instrument names in the Piano Roll view, Event List view,
and Percussion Notation dialog box.
For more information about instrument definitions, see Chapter 16, Using
Instrument Definitions.
Setting Up a Percussion Staff or Line
The first time you display a percussion track in the Staff view, SONAR picks a
default percussion clef for the track. Tracks with only one note value are assigned
the Percussion Line clef. Tracks with multiple note values are assigned the
Percussion Staff clef.
If you want to change a Percussion Staff to a Percussion Line or vice versa, or if
you want to change another type of staff to a percussion staff, you can do so in the
Staff View Layout dialog box. If you change a track’s clef to a non-percussion clef,
the percussion notation settings will be lost.
The lowest and highest lines on the Percussion clef are E5 and F6, respectively.
The Percussion Line represents E5.
By default, percussion staffs are given SONAR’s default note bindings and
notehead assignments. If you want to use your own notation, or if you want to set
up the appearance of a percussion line, you need to use the Percussion Notation
Key dialog box. In this dialog box, the percussion sounds and staff positions that
are bound have an asterisk near their names. When you select a bound percussion
sound, a line joins the sound to its staff position. Each percussion sound can be
bound only to a single position, but each position may be bound to several sounds.
You can use different notehead types and articulation symbols to visually
distinguish the sounds.