Troubleshooting - CAKEWALK SONAR User Manual

SysxSendDelayMsecs=n
This setting causes SONAR to delay n milliseconds if it encounters an F7 in a System Exclusive bank,
but only if the line SysxDelayAfterF7=n is not zero. The line SysxDelayAfterF7=n enables a delay
between Sysx messages, while the line SysxSendDelayMsecs=n sets the size of the delay.
n = 60 Default value (in milliseconds)
SysxDelayAfterF7=n
This setting causes SONAR to delay Sysx transmission for a certain amount of time if it encounters an
F7 in a System Exclusive bank. This gives some instruments the required amount of "breathing" time
necessary to process the Sysx transmission. The default delay is 1/18 of a second, but can be changed by
also adding the SysxSendDelayMsecs=n line, where n is the number of milliseconds that the delay lasts.
The possible values of n in the line SysxDelayAfterF7=n are 0 and 1. Their significance is as follows:
n = 0 No delay
n = 1 Delay between each Sysx message
SysxSendPacketSize=n
System Exclusive bytes are transmitted in packets, with a 1/18-second default delay between each
packet. Setting this value to a smaller number will help slower synthesizers avoid overflowing their
internal buffers. This line sets the number of bytes between each Sysx transmit delay.
n = 1024 Default value (in bytes)

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 .
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 521 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
described in Sysx .
INI
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.
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TTSSEQ
File Settings.
files (not in . files).
MID
to make SONAR transmit Sysx data more slowly, as
INI
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