Working With Percussion; Setting Up A Percussion Track - CAKEWALK SONAR User Manual

Working with Percussion

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4. Enter a note by clicking the string and fret where you would play the note.
The note appears on the Fretboard, in the Staff, and in the TAB if you have
generated one (you can generate a Quick TAB by choosing Quick TAB from
the tablature dropdown menu that you open by clicking the dropdown arrow
on the Staff View Layout button).
5. If you are entering a chord, continue clicking notes at the same Now Time. To
move ahead, press Shift-Right Arrow and click a new note duration, if desired.
You can delete a note right after you enter it by pressing Ctrl+Z, or at any time by
clicking the Eraser tool and clicking the note in the notation or TAB staffs.
Cakewalk gives you several options to play and hear the notes in your track:
• Scrubbing enables you to click each note in the Fretboard and hear it play.
Select the Scrub tool and click the note.
• Scrub strumming enables you to "strum" chords by dragging the Scrub tool
through a chord. With the Scrub tool selected, drag through a chord on the
Fretboard from below it or above it and back and forth.
• Ctrl+Right Arrow/Ctrl+Left Arrow moves the cursor through the track,
playing each note as it reaches it.
The Staff view can display percussion tracks on a five-line percussion staff or on a
single percussion line. The staff usually displays notes for a drum set or multiple
percussion instruments; the line is used to display notes for a single instrument
(although it need not be so).
SONAR lets you control the appearance of percussion staffs in considerable detail.
You can display percussion notes using several different types of noteheads and
articulation symbols, and you can map any percussion sound to any position on the
percussion staff (in a percussion track, each MIDI note value designates a
different percussion instrument; mapping lets you display any instrument in any
position on the staff, regardless of the underlying MIDI note value). You can save
your settings as a preset, and use them again on other tracks and in other projects.
SONAR supplies a standard preset based on the General MIDI percussion
standard and popularly accepted percussion staff positions and noteheads.

Setting Up a Percussion Track

Before you use the percussion capabilities of the Staff view, your percussion track
should be set up correctly. This will allow you to hear the proper sounds when
placing notes and during playback, and will allow you to see the correct percussion
instrument names rather than generic note names in the Piano Roll view, Event
List view, and Percussion Notation dialog box.