Playing Music On A Keyboard - CAKEWALK SONAR User Manual

You can change the patch at other times in the project besides the beginning by using the Insert-Bank/
Patch Change command:
1. Stop playback.
2. Select the track in which you want to insert a patch change by clicking on its track number.
3. Move the Now time to the place where you want to insert the patch change.
4. Use the Insert-Bank/Patch Change command.
The Bank/Patch Change dialog box appears.
5. Choose a patch from the Patch field and click OK.
SONAR inserts the patch change that you selected at the Now time.
6. Move the Now time to a place before the patch change and play the project so that the Now time
moves through the place where you put the patch change. You may want to solo the track to hear it
clearly.
7. Listen to the sound change when the Now time reaches the patch change.
You may want to experiment with changing all the instruments used by the project. One thing you
should know: Changing the instrument on a percussion track (such as the Drum, Shaker, and Triangle
tracks in this project) may have no effect. Percussion instruments are played on MIDI channel 10,
which in General MIDI is dedicated to percussion. The note determines the instrument, and the patch
is irrelevant.
Changing the Patch in the Track/Bus Inspector
You can also change a track's patch in the Track/Bus Inspector, which is a vertically expanded version of
the current track's controls at the far left side of the Track view. The current track is the one with the
gold title bar. Whichever track's controls that you click becomes the current track. For example, to
change the Piano track's patch, click the Patch button in the Piano track's Track/Bus Inspector and
choose a new patch from the menu. The Patch button is just below the Bank button. You can hide or
show the Track/Bus Inspector by pressing i on your computer keyboard.

Playing Music on a Keyboard

If you've connected a MIDI keyboard (or another instrument) to your external MIDI interface or the
MIDI interface of your sound card, you can play one or more parts of the project on the keyboard instead
of the sound card's internal synthesizer. For instructions on connecting a keyboard to your computer, see
"To Connect a MIDI Keyboard to Your Computer" on page 31. For this section, we assume that you want
to connect the keyboard to the MIDI In and MIDI Out of your sound card.
Checking Your MIDI Device Settings
First, let's make sure that SONAR is set up to send MIDI output to your keyboard.
1. Choose Options-MIDI Devices to open the MIDI Devices dialog box.
2. In the Outputs field, two devices should be selected. The first should be your sound card
synthesizer device; the second should be the MIDI output your MIDI device is connected to (it
should say something like "SB Live MIDI Out"). The uppermost selected device will correspond to
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