Setting Up Sonar LE to Use the SonicCell Editor

Setting Up SONAR LE to Use the SonicCell Editor

When you install the SONAR LE that came with SonicCell, the VST Adaptor application is installed on your hard drive.

Use Cakewalk’s VST Adaptor application to register the SonicCell Editor as a plug-in for SONAR LE. With the version of SONAR LE that ships with SonicCell, you’ll need to update SONAR LE’s VST Adaptor application. You’ll find this program on the CD-ROM that came with SonicCell.

To update the VST Adaptor:

1Insert the SonicCell Editor CD, and open its Sonar Utility folder.

2 Open the VST Adapter folder.

3Double-click VSTAdapter453Update_E file to launch the VST Adaptor updater.

4In the Select Language window, select U.S. English, and click OK.

5In the Welcome! window, click Next—the update is applied, and the Wrap VST Plugins window appears.

6Click Cancel—the Install window appears warning you that setup is not complete, but it is for us, so click Exit Setup.

Once you’ve updated the application:

1From the Start menu, select All Programs > Cakewalk > Cakewalk VST Adapter > Cakewalk VST Adapter 4.

2When the Cakewalk VST Configuration Wizard: Welcome window opens, click Next.

3In the Cakewalk VST Configuration Wizard: Search Paths window, click Add...

4Navigate to your C drive, the Program Files folder—presuming you used the default install location—highlight the Roland folder, and click OK.

5Back in the Cakewalk VST Configuration Wizard: Search Paths window, click Next—SonicCell Editor VST appears in the resulting Cakewalk VST Configuration Wizard: Plugin Configuration window.

6Click Next to finish registering the SonicCell Editor.

Setting Up SONAR LE for SonicCell MIDI

In the following sections, we’ll assume a couple of things about the way you’re working. We’ll assume

•you’ve got SonicCell in Performance mode—using SonicCell’s PRST 01 Seq: Template performance to start with.

•you’ve connected a MIDI controller to SonicCell’s MIDI IN jack—and that you’ve turned on SonicCell’s USB-MIDI Thru parameter, as described in the Using SonicCell with a DAW Workshop booklet.

Here’s how to get SONAR LE to exchange MIDI data with SonicCell:

1In SONAR LE, select MIDI Devices... from the Options menu to open the MIDI Devices window.

2In the Inputs and in the Outputs panes, select 1:Roland SonicCell so it’s highlighted:

3Click OK.

4From the Options menu, select Global... to open the Global Options window.

5Make sure that Always Echo Current MIDI Track is checkmarked so that your SonicCell patch plays as you sequence, and click OK.

SONAR LE is now set up to exchange MIDI data with SonicCell.