CAKEWALK SONAR - Clear Bank; Name; Auto; Output

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Clear Bank
This deletes the selected bank. The shortcut key is d.
Name
You may enter a description for a bank by clicking this button. Names are saved
only in .
CWP and .CWB files. The shortcut key is n.
Auto
The Auto option tells SONAR to transmit that bank every time it loads the project
file. You might use this option for banks that contain System Exclusive messages
that load a set of sounds for a synthesizer at or before the start of a project.
Before transmitting, SONAR asks your permission. This is a safety feature for
loading a file you have received from someone else; if it happens to contain data for
your synthesizer(s), you might lose your patches and configuration information.
However, if you don’t want to be asked, choose Options-Global, click the General
tab, and uncheck the box labeled Ask Before Sending Sysx. The shortcut key is a.
Output
Each bank is transmitted to a particular MIDI output, just as a track is. Click this
button to change the output. The shortcut key is p.
Edit Bytes
Although SONAR’s Sysx features are designed mainly to store System Exclusive
data for you, you can edit the bytes of shorter messages in hex format (many of the
more popular synthesizers have special patch-editing programs available that let
you edit data using sliders and other tools rather than raw hex data).
When you select a bank and click the Edit Bytes button, SONAR converts the
binary data into a text representation and pops up the Edit System Exclusive
Bytes dialog box, in which you can edit the text. If you make changes and click OK
to keep them, SONAR tries to convert the text back into binary format. You’ll get
an error message if the text does not begin with an F0 and end with an F7, which
are the System Exclusive begin and end bytes.
SONAR may not be able to convert the data to text format. The text representation
requires three to four times more memory than the data itself, and the Edit
System Exclusive Bytes dialog box can contain roughly as much text as Notepad.
The shortcut key is e.
Load Bank and Save Bank
You can import banks from and save banks to files with the file extension .SYX. If
you try to import to a bank that isn’t empty, SONAR asks if you want to append or
replace. The Load and Save buttons work only with .
SYX, not SONAR project files
or MIDI files.