Assigning Tracks To Outputs; Choosing The Instrument Sound (Bank And Patch) - CAKEWALK SONAR User Manual

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To Choose MIDI Devices
1. Choose Options-MIDI Devices to display the MIDI Devices dialog box.
2. Click on any MIDI device in the Outputs list.
3. To move any device to the top of the list, deselect all other devices and click
Move to Top to move the selected device to the top of the list.
4. When all devices are selected in the order you want, click OK.

Assigning Tracks to Outputs

You assign each track to a MIDI or an audio output using the Output dropdown in
the Track view. From then on, material on that track will be sent to the
appropriate output device.
Note:
If you rearrange your MIDI output devices after making output
assignments, you may find MIDI information being sent to different
instruments than you expect. Also, SONAR allows you to define
instruments that are associated with certain outputs and channels. If
you use this feature, the name of the output will change to reflect the
instrument you have chosen. For more information about instrument
definitions, see Chapter 16, Using Instrument Definitions.
To Assign a Track to an Output
1. Click the Output dropdown of the track you want to assign.
2. Select the output you want to use.
To change the output setting for more than one track at a time, select the tracks
you want to change and choose Track-Property-Output.

Choosing the Instrument Sound (Bank and Patch)

Electronic keyboards and synthesizers often contain hundreds or thousands of
different sounds. Each sound is known as a patch. The name comes from the early
days of synthesizers, for which you physically rewired (using patch cords) the
oscillators and modulators to produce different sounds. Patches are normally
organized into groups of 128, called banks. Most instruments have between 1 and
8 banks, but MIDI supports up to 16,384 banks of 128 patches each (that's over 2
million patches).
The bank and patch settings in the Track view control the initial bank and patch of
a track during playback. Every time SONAR starts playback at the beginning of a
project, the bank and patch settings for the track are set to these initial values.