Roland SCWS04 Setting Up Sonar to Use the SonicCell Editor, Setting Up Sonar for SonicCell Midi

Setting Up SONAR to Use the SonicCell Editor

In SONAR you’ll find the Cakewalk Plug-In Manager with which you register the SonicCell Editor as a plug-in for use with SONAR. Here’s how:

1From SONAR’s Tools menu, select Cakewalk Plug-in Manager.

2 In the VST Configuration area, click Options.

3 In the Cakewalk VST Scan 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 Scan Paths window, click OK—SONAR scans the displayed folders and displays all of its found plug-ins in the Cakewalk Plug-in Manager window. (You’ll see the SonicCell Editor if you click VST Instruments (VSTi) in the left-hand pane.

6Click Close to finish registering the SonicCell Editor.

Setting Up SONAR 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 to exchange MIDI data with SonicCell:

1In SONAR, 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 checkmarked as shown here:

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 is now set up to exchange MIDI data with SonicCell.

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