SONAR_X2_Reference_Guide.pdf

SONAR X2

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 101

“Tutorial 2 – Using the Browser” on page 115

“Tutorial 3 – Recording vocals and musical instruments” on page 121

“Tutorial 4 – Playing and recording software instruments” on page 125

“Tutorial 5 – Working with music notation” on page 133

“Tutorial 6 – Editing your music” on page 143

“Tutorial 7 – Mixing and adding effects” on page 149

“Tutorial 8 – Working with video” on page 159

“Tutorial 9 – Exporting, CD burning and sharing” on page 169

“Glossary” on page 1905 . A list of defined terms.

“Introduction” on page 53 . An overview of SONAR’s features and functionality.

“Troubleshooting” on page 1251 . Answers to frequently asked questions.

“New features in SONAR X2” on page 1309 .

Descriptions of new features in SONAR X2.

Note: This documentation covers SONAR X2 Producer, SONAR X2 Studio and SONAR X2

Essential. The documentation indicates if a feature only applies to a specific edition of SONAR

X2. For a list of key differences between each edition, see “Comparison” on page 1335.

Getting started

Getting started

Table of contents

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

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

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

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

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

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

Game sound development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

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

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

Film and video scoring and production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Publishing music on the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Burning audio CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Flexibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Computers, sound and music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

MIDI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Digital audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Audio connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

MIDI connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Changing I/O devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Starting SONAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

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

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

Opening a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

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

Working on a project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Screen colors and wallpaper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Color presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

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