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Computers, Sound, and Music

Flexibility

SONAR works the way you want to work—you can customize screen layouts, toolbars, and audio

and MIDI system configurations to make your work more efficient. SONAR integrates with other

sound editing tools so you can access them in an instant without leaving SONAR. There are custom

software modules to support specialized audio devices from Roland and Yamaha. SONAR’s unique

StudioWare technology provides software interfaces for common studio hardware.

Computers, Sound, and Music

This section provides some background on the different ways that computers store and play sound

and music. Computers work with sound and music in two different forms: MIDI and digital audio.

MIDI

MIDI (short for Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is the way computers communicate with most

sound cards, keyboards, and other electronic instruments. MIDI refers to both the type of cables and

plugs used to connect the computers and instruments, and to the language those computers and

instruments use to talk to each other. The MIDI standard is accepted and used worldwide. Almost

any electronic instrument you buy today will have MIDI connectors and can be used with other MIDI

instruments and with your computer’s MIDI interface. To record MIDI in SONAR, you have to have a

MIDI cable connecting the MIDI OUT port on your MIDI instrument to a MIDI IN port on either your

sound card or your MIDI interface. You must also make sure that you have installed the software

MIDI driver that came with your sound card or MIDI interface.

The MIDI language conveys information and instructions, both from the computer to the instrument

and from the instrument to the computer. For example, if your computer wants your keyboard to play

a note, it sends a MIDI “Note On” message and tells the keyboard which note to play. When your

computer wants the keyboard to stop playing that note, it sends another message that stops the note

from playing.

The MIDI language has many other instructions, such as messages to change the sound that is

used to play the notes (the bank and patch), messages that enable working with the sustain pedal

and the pitch-bend wheel, and others. By sending the right messages at the right times, your

computer can control your electronic instrument and make it play music.

MIDI information can be sent on 16 different channels. You can set up your MIDI equipment to listen

for messages on all channels or on only a few.

MIDI files contain all the MIDI messages and timing information that are needed to play a song. MIDI

files can be read and played by many different programs, including SONAR, and can even be played

by programs on other types of computers. MIDI files have the extension .mid.

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