Roland Studio Package Pro owner manual Let’s Try Operating Sonar, Transport, Faders, Master Fader

Quick Start

Let’s Try Operating SONAR

Go ahead and use the SI-24 to control the demo song as described below.

■Transport

You can get a “Overlay for SONAR” to fit over the buttons in the Transport section. The overlay renames some of the buttons for special SONAR functionality.

[PLAY]:			Start playback.
[STOP]:			Stop playback or recording.
[REC]:			Start recording (When there is at least one recording-armed track.); Start Automation
			recording (When there is at least one automation-armed track/bus.)
[	]:		Rewind to the start of the project.
[		]:	Set the Now time to the beginning of the previous measure.
[		]:	Set the Now time to the beginning of the next measure.
Jog dial:			Moves the Now time

■CH ASSIGN

Use CH ASSIGN to select the items that will be controlled. The correspondence between CH

ASSIGN and the controlled items is shown below.

You can get a “overlay sheet” to fit over the buttons in the CH ASSIGN section. The overlay renames some of the buttons for special SONAR functionality.

[TRACK]:	Assign SI-24’s faders and controls to tracks.
[AUX]:	Assign SI-24’s faders and controls to Aux buses.
[MAIN]:	Assign SI-24’s faders and controls to Virtual Mains.
[PREV. BANK]:	Go to previous 12 tracks or buses
[NEXT BANK]:	Go to next 12 tracks or buses

Current track/bus bank is displayed in the “Control Surface” tool-bar of SONAR, like “Track 1-12,” “Track 13-24,” etc.

■ Faders 1–12

When CH ASSIGN is [TRACK]:	Track volume
When CH ASSIGN is [AUX]:	Aux bus return level
When CH ASSIGN is [MAIN]:	Virtual Main volume

■MASTER Fader

Virtual Main “A” volume (default).

You can choose which the SI-24 master fader controls. For more information, see “Using the Roland SI-24 Property Page” (p. 34).

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