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Troubleshooting
SONAR Is Not Receiving Sysx Messages
• Make sure all your devices are connected correctly.
• Make sure you have the right MIDI Input selected by using the Options-
MIDI Devices command.
• Make sure that your instrument is set up to transmit System Exclusive data.
Sysx Bank Names Don't Show When I Open a File
Sysx bank names are only saved in .CWP and .CWB files (not in .MID files).
SONAR Doesn't Include a DRM for My Instrument
If there is no Dump Request Macro (DRM) for your instrument, you should select
You start dump on instrument, then initiate the Sysx dump from the instrument.
Once the bytes received count stops increasing, click Done to tell SONAR to stop
receiving. The currently selected bank now holds the received Sysx data. You can
rename the bank if you want by selecting the bank and clicking the Name button.
You can also add a DRM for any unlisted instrument. For more information on how
to do this, read the section “More about Dump Request Macros” on page 592 earlier
in this chapter.
Synthesizers Reporting MIDI Data Errors
Some synthesizers will report data errors when you try to send Sysx information
to them. This usually happens when SONAR sends data at a rate too fast for the
synthesizer to keep up. You can use the SysxSendPacketSize=number setting in
TTSSEQ.INI to make SONAR transmit Sysx data more slowly, as described in Sysx
.
INI File Settings.
Try setting the number to 64. If that does not solve the problem, try successively
smaller values. If 64 works, you may try larger values until it stops working; go
back to the largest value that worked and you will have the fastest transmission
rate that the problematic synthesizer can keep up with.
My Equipment Is Not receiving Sysx from SONAR
Make sure the instrument is set up to receive System Exclusive messages. In the
Sysx View, make sure the right output is selected. Verify that the Sysx message
originally transmitted from the same kind of instrument. An instrument will not
recognize Sysx messages from a different make or model of instrument.
Finally, try adjusting the parameters in the
TTSSEQ.INI file, as described earlier in
this chapter.
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