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Roland SCWS04 manual

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    1 Using SonicCell with SONAR ™ ®ÂØÒňΠ® W or k sho p SonicCell Expandable Synthesizer Module and Audio Interface © 2008 Roland Corpora tion U.S. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be r eproduced in any f orm without the written permission of Roland Corpor ation U .S. SONAR™ is a trademark of T w elve T one Systems, I[...]

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    2 About the Workshop Booklets Roland’ s SonicCell is designed for modern musicians. Using USB, It adds a huge set of sounds to your digital audio workstation (or “D A W ”) without adding to your comput er ’ s workload. It ’ s also an audio interface that can get signals from mics , instruments, or other devices t o DA W tracks for rec ord[...]

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    3 Window s asks you to relaunch SONAR for your new settings to take effect. Click OK , quit SONAR, and then relaunch the progr am. 3 After SONAR has restarted, close the Quick Star t window and return 4 to Audio... in the Options menu. In the Audio Options General tab, set Playback Timing Master to 5 1: Roland SonicCell:OUT 1 , and check to make su[...]

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    4 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 : Fr om SONAR’ s T ools menu, select 1 Cakewalk Plug-in M anager . In the VST Configuration area, click Options. 2 In the Cakewalk VST Scan Pa ths window, c[...]

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    5 Creating a SonicCell Editor T r ack Y ou’ll need to do this first so y ou have an easy wa y to select patches for your S onicCell synth tracks. Select an unused audio track in your project, 1 or add a new one. 2 Click the track’ s Restore Strip Size button to display its settings. If the new track doesn’t look like what you see here, click [...]

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    6 Selecting a P atch for a P art Y ou choose each patch you w ant to use in SONAR by selecting it for the part that a SONAR MIDI track is configured to play. Here ’ s how : Click the desired par t’ s number in the P ARTS area of the Editor 1 window . Select a patch for the par t using the controls in the patch-selection 2 area, circled in red o[...]

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    7 If you haven’t yet selected a patch on SonicCell to play from this track, use the SonicCell Editor to assign the desired patch to the part you want to use. Once you’ve done that, return to the MIDI track you’ve been setting up. When you play your controller with your new track selected, y ou 7 should hear the desired patch play in SonicCell[...]

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    8 T urn Off Software Monitoring 1 If the track ’ s channel strip isn’ t visible, click the track in the Track window . Click the channel’ s I nput Echo button so 2 it’ s not lit. As we noted in the Using the SonicCell with a DA W W orkshop booklet, you do have the option of listening through SONAR if you want to hear its effects as you reco[...]