SONAR X1 Reference Guide.pdf

SONAR X1

Reference Guide

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Getting started

If you want to get up and running quickly, please use the following tutorials, which are tailored to

learning specific tasks in SONAR. If you are new to Cakewalk products, you may want to start at

Tutorial 1. If you have used previous versions of Cakewalk, or you want to do a specific task, choose

from the following tutorials:

“Tutorial 1 – Creating, playing, and saving projects” on page 95

“Tutorial 2 – Using the Browser” on page 107

“Tutorial 3 – Recording vocals and musical instruments” on page 113

“Tutorial 4 – Playing and recording software instruments” on page 119

“Tutorial 5 – Working with music notation” on page 127

“Tutorial 6 – Editing your music” on page 137

“Tutorial 7 – Mixing and adding effects” on page 145

“Tutorial 8 – Working with video” on page 153

“Tutorial 9 – Exporting, CD burning and sharing” on page 163

“Glossary” on page 1799 . A list of defined terms.

“Introduction” on page 51 . An overview of SONAR’s features and functionality.

“Troubleshooting” on page 1177 . Answers to frequently asked questions.

“New features in SONAR X1” on page 1237 . Descriptions of new features in SONAR X1.

Note: This documentation covers SONAR X1 Producer, SONAR X1 Studio, SONAR X1

Essential and SONAR X1 LE. The documentation indicates if a feature only applies to a specific

edition of SONAR X1. For a list of key differences between each edition, see “Comparison” on

page 1245 .

Getting started

Getting started

Table of contents

Getting started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

About SONAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Publish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Music composition and exploration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Remixing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Game sound development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Sound production and engineering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Web authoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Film and video scoring and production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Publishing music on the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Burning audio CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Flexibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Computers, sound and music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

MIDI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Digital audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Audio connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

MIDI connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Changing I/O devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Starting SONAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

SONAR basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

SONAR file types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Opening a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Working on a project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Screen colors and wallpaper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Color presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

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