Setting Up A Percussion Staff Or Line - CAKEWALK SONAR User Manual

4. Make sure that the output/channel combination used by your track is assigned to a percussion
instrument definition. For example, channel 10 of a General MIDI output should be assigned to the
General MIDI Drums instrument definition.
5. Click OK in both dialog boxes.
SONAR shows the new track output and channel in the Track view, and will use the proper percussion
instrument names in the Piano Roll view, Event List view, and Percussion Notation dialog box.
For more information about instrument definitions, see Chapter 16, Using Instrument Definitions.

Setting Up a Percussion Staff or Line

The first time you display a percussion track in the Staff view, SONAR picks a default percussion clef
for the track. Tracks with only one note value are assigned the Percussion Line clef. Tracks with
multiple note values are assigned the Percussion Staff clef.
If you want to change a Percussion Staff to a Percussion Line or vice versa, or if you want to change
another type of staff to a percussion staff, you can do so in the Staff View Layout dialog box. If you
change a track's clef to a non-percussion clef, the percussion notation settings will be lost.
The lowest and highest lines on the Percussion clef are E5 and F6, respectively. The Percussion Line
represents E5.
By default, percussion staves are given SONAR's default note bindings and notehead assignments. If
you want to use your own notation, or if you want to set up the appearance of a percussion line, you
need to use the Percussion Notation Key dialog box. In this dialog box, the percussion sounds and staff
positions that are bound have an asterisk near their names. When you select a bound percussion sound,
a line joins the sound to its staff position. Each percussion sound can be bound only to a single position,
but each position may be bound to several sounds. You can use different notehead types and articulation
symbols to visually distinguish the sounds.
To Assign a Percussion Staff or Line to a Track
1. Click the Staff View Layout button
2. Select your percussion track from the list.
3. Select Percussion Staff or Percussion Line from the Clef dropdown list.
4. Click Percussion Settings to set up the appearance of percussion notes (see below).
5. Click Close.
SONAR changes the track's clef to the selected percussion clef.
To Set Up a Track's Percussion Notation Key
1. Click the Staff View Layout button
2. Select your percussion track from the list.
3. Click Percussion Settings to open the Percussion Notation Key dialog box.
4. Set up the percussion notation key according to the following table:
To do this...
Map (bind) a percussion sound to a line
or space on the staff
to open the Staff View Layout dialog box.
to open the Staff View Layout dialog box.
Do this...
Select the sound (or corresponding MIDI note) in the MIDI
Note list, select the intended position in the percussion staff in
the Display As list, then click Bind.
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