Quick Start
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Let’s Try Operating SONAR
Go ahead and use the SI-24 to control the demo song as described below.
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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
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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.
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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
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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).
