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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of Roland Corporation U.S. SONAR™ is a trademark of Twelve Tone Systems, Inc. Twelve Tone Systems, Inc. is not associated or affiliated with Roland in any manner. SCWS04...
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About the Workshop Booklets Roland’s SonicCell is designed for modern musicians. Using USB, It adds a huge set of sounds to your digital audio workstation (or “DAW”) without adding to your computer’s workload. It’s also an audio interface that can get signals from mics, instruments, or other devices to DAW tracks for recording.
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Click OK to exit the Audio Options window. When you close the Audio Options window, Windows once again tells you that you’ll need to relaunch SONAR. Quit and then relaunch SONAR. 1: Roland SonicCell IN L as input and output drivers, respectively, if...
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In the Cakewalk VST Scan Paths window, click Add... Navigate to your C drive, the Program Files folder—presuming you used the default install location—highlight the Roland folder, and click OK. Back in the Cakewalk VST Scan Paths window, click OK—SONAR scans the displayed folders and displays all of its found plug-ins in the Cakewalk Plug-in Manager window.
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Creating a SonicCell Editor Track You’ll need to do this first so you have an easy way to select patches for your SonicCell synth tracks. Select an unused audio track in your project, or add a new one. Click the track’s Restore Strip Size button to display its settings.
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Set the Channel parameter to the number of the SonicCell part whose patch you want to sequence. Your track’s settings should look like this: 1:Roland SonicCell - 1-1:Roland SonicCell We’ve selected MIDI Channel 1 to play the patch belonging to Part 1.
SonicCell’s Neutrik and (LINE) R input jacks—select Stereo Roland SonicCell IN • a SonicCell synth patch in stereo— select Make sure the track’s Output is set to Roland SonicCell OUT L. When you’re done, the track’s settings should look like this: Stereo Roland SonicCell...
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Turn Off Software Monitoring If the track’s channel strip isn’t visible, click the track in the Track window. Click the channel’s Input Echo button so it’s not lit. As we noted in the Using the SonicCell with a DAW Workshop booklet, you do have the option of listening through SONAR if you want to hear its effects as you record.
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