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Starting SONAR
If you don’t want to see the Quick Start dialog box in the future, uncheck the box at the bottom of
the dialog box, and click Close. You can see the Quick Start dialog box later by choosing Help >
Quick Start.
RIFF/MID will not launch SONAR when double-clicked
Migrating preferences
If you have a previous version of Cakewalk installed, SONAR will detect it and give you the option of
migrating certain preferences from a single earlier version.
When you choose to migrate preferences, SONAR migrates the following settings from an earlier
Cakewalk version:
Running Wave Profiler
The first time you start SONAR, it automatically runs the Wave Profiler utility. Wave Profiler
determines the proper MIDI and Audio timings for your sound card and writes them to a file that
SONAR refers to when using the card. Wave Profiler does not change the sound card’s DMA, IRQ,
or port address settings.
Wave Profiler detects the make and model of your sound card, which determine the card’s audio
characteristics. If Wave Profiler finds a card that has a WDM driver, it only profiles that card. If you
want to use more than one sound card at a time, and they don’t both have WDM drivers, you must
force the one with the WDM driver to use that driver as an older, MME driver. It is not necessary to
run the Wave Profiler for a sound card using an ASIO driver. For more information about Wave
Profiler, WDM, and MME, see the online help topic The Wave Profiler.
Note: Double-clicking RIFF MIDI files and Standard MIDI files will fail to launch SONAR even
if these file types are associated with SONAR.
Setting Description
Global Options Settings in the Global Options dialog. Open by selecting Options >
Global.
Key Bindings Your customized key bindings for controlling SONAR using your MIDI
keyboard or computer keyboard.
Instrument Definitions Files used to control specific MIDI instruments.
Audio data directory (WaveData
folder) and Picture Cache directory
locations
SONAR uses the Data directory and Picture Cache directories from the
previous Cakewalk version for storing project wave files and their
waveform image files.
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