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You may also use this feature to copy a Sysx bank between two SONAR project
files. Save the bank into a file, load the other SONAR project file, then load the
bank again. This is also a good way to copy one bank to another in the same project
file. The shortcut keys are o and v respectively.
To Export a Sysx Bank to Another Project
1. In the Sysx view, select the bank you want to export.
2. Click the Save Bank button .
The Save As dialog appears.
3. Navigate to the folder in which you want to store the file.
4. Enter a file name and click OK.
SONAR saves the file in the location you specified, with the extension .
SYX.
5. Open the project to which you want to import the bank and select an empty
bank in the Sysx view (unless you want to add the file to an existing bank).
6. Click the Load Bank from File button to open the Open dialog.
7. Navigate to the desired folder, select the .
SYX file you want to import, and click
Open.
SONAR loads the selected bank into the current project.
Transmitting Banks During Playback
SONAR has a special meta-event, Sysx Bank, that lets you play a System
Exclusive bank at a specified time in your project. You can use a Sysx meta-event
to send any of the 8192 available Sysx banks at any time in a sequence. To do this,
you have to insert a new event in the Event List using the Insert key on the PC
keyboard. Next you have to double-click Event Kind and change it to System
Exclusive. In the Values column, select the bank (0-8191) that you want to send.
MIDI is a serial data transmission, meaning it can do only one thing at a time. If
you try to upload a huge sampler dump during a fast drum solo, playback will
noticeably lurch. MIDI must complete the System Exclusive message before it can
resume playback. The Sysx meta-event is appropriate only for very short System
Exclusive messages. The exact length depends on various factors, such as the
speed of your computer but as a rule of thumb, 100 bytes is a likely maximum, and
even that may often be too large.
You don’t need to use Sysx meta-events for sending System Exclusive information
at the beginning of your project. Instead, use the Auto option for System Exclusive
banks. Banks that are marked Auto are transmitted automatically by SONAR
when it loads the project file they are stored in. Use the Sysx meta-event only
when you need to send a Sysx Bank during the middle of the project.
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