CAKEWALK SONAR User Manual page 55

Note: T 1. does not contain audio data or audio tracks, but if you need to choose an audio
UTORIAL CWP
output for an audio track, each audio track also has an Output menu. Audio tracks display an audio
icon just to the right of the track number:
Audio output menu in an
audio track
This tutorial has so far focused on using a software synthesizer as a sound source for your MIDI tracks.
If you have built-in synthesizer on your soundcard, or a MIDI keyboard that produces sounds (that
you've connected to your computer through a MIDI interface of some kind), you might want to use these
devices instead. The following optional procedure describes how to configure your project to use these
MIDI outputs.. If you're happy using Cakewalk TTS-1, feel free to skip ahead to the next section.
To Use Other Sound Sources for MIDI Tracks
1. Select Options-MIDI Devices from the menu to open the MIDI Devices dialog box.
2. In the MIDI Devices dialog in the Outputs field, arrange the outputs by doing the following:
To do this...
Enable or disable a device
Move a device to the top of the
list
3. Click OK.
Note: If you have a large number of MIDI outputs enabled, you may occasionally get MIDI
transmission errors or an out-of-memory message. You can try either deselecting some outputs, or
lowering the number of Sysx buffers by using the Options-Global command to open the Global
Options dialog box: on the MIDI tab, lower the value in the Number of Buffers field to 16.
4. Return to the Track view and reassign the Output menu setting on any MIDI tracks you wish to
hear through something other than Cakewalk TTS-1.
• If using a soundcard synthesizer, you need to select the name of that synthesizer (for example,
SB Live! Synth A for the synthesizer in a SoundBlaster Live sound card) in the Output menu.
• If you've connected a keyboard or MIDI sound module to a MIDI interface, you need to select
the name of the MIDI interface, and set the correct output MIDI channel in the same track
(the MIDI channel that your keyboard is set to receive on).
Audio icon
Do this...
Click on it—an enabled device appears highlighted; a disabled
device does not appear highlighted.
Highlight it, temporarily deselect all other highlighted devices,
and click the Move Selected Devices to Top button.
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