Table of Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 MIDI and Digital Audio Basics -- What Is MIDI? -- What Is Digital Audio? -- So What's Really the Difference? -- CHAPTER 2 Getting Started with SONAR 4 -- What Version of SONAR Do You Have? -- Getting the Latest Product Update -- Registering Your Software -- Taking a Quick Tour of SONAR -- Projects -- Tracks, Clips, and Events -- Track View -- Staff View -- Piano Roll View -- Event List View -- Loop Construction View -- Console View -- StudioWare and CAL -- What's New in SONAR 4? -- A Basic Studio Setup -- Computer -- Sound Card -- MIDI Interface -- Microphone -- Speakers -- Finding Help When You Need It -- CHAPTER 3 Customizing SONAR 4 -- Organizing Files -- Changing File Locations -- Putting Everything in Its Place -- Customizing Audio Folders -- The Picture Folder -- Customizing the Workspace -- Changing Colors -- Using Toolbars -- Working with Window Layouts -- Using Key Bindings -- Customizing MIDI Settings -- Working with MIDI Devices -- Setting Global MIDI Options -- Understanding Instrument Definitions -- Optimal Audio Settings -- Adjusting the Latency Slider -- Setting Driver Mode -- Setting Queue Buffers and I/O Buffer Size -- Read and Write Caching -- Understanding DMA and the Wave Profiler -- CHAPTER 4 Working with Projects -- Opening Projects -- Opening in Safe Mode -- Finding Missing Audio Files -- Creating a New Project -- What's a Template? -- Creating Your Own Template -- Saving Your Project -- Project File Types -- CHAPTER 5 Getting Around in SONAR 4 -- The Now Time -- Show Me the Now Time -- Setting the Now Time -- The Go Menu -- Go-Time (F5) -- Go-From and Go-Thru (F7 and F8) -- Go-Beginning and Go-End (Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End) -- Go-Previous Measure and Go-Next Measure (Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDn) -- Go-Previous Marker and Go-Next Marker (Ctrl+Shift+PgUp and Ctrl+Shift+PgDn).

Markers, Oh My! -- Make Your Mark(ers) -- Editing the Markers -- Navigating with Markers -- Where, Oh Where? -- The Go-Search Challenge -- CHAPTER 6 Recording and Playback -- Preliminary Parameters -- The Track Inspector -- Metronome -- MIDI Echo -- Sampling Rate and Bit Depth -- Input Monitoring -- Record Mode -- Audio Track Recording and Playback -- Multiple Track Recording and Playback -- Loop Recording -- Punch Recording -- Step Recording -- Importing -- Importing from SONAR Project Files -- Importing MIDI Files and Project5 Patterns -- Importing Audio Files -- Synchronization -- Synchronization Basics -- MIDI Sync -- SMPTE/MIDI Time Code -- CHAPTER 7 Editing Basics -- Arranging with the Track View -- Dealing with Tracks -- Dealing with Clips -- Moving and Copying Clips -- Using the Piano Roll View -- Working with Multiple Tracks -- Dealing with Notes -- Dealing with Controllers -- Using the Event List View -- Opening the View -- Filtering Events -- Editing Events -- Using the Tempo View -- Opening the View -- Editing Tempo Changes -- Using the Tempo Commands -- CHAPTER 8 Exploring the Editing Tools -- Advanced Data Selection -- Selecting a Range of Data by Time -- Selecting a Range of Data by Filter -- Some Selection Applications -- Advanced Audio Editing -- Adjusting Audio Volume -- The 3dB Quieter Feature -- The Normalize Feature -- The Fade Feature -- Crossfades -- Equalization (EQ) -- Getting Rid of Silence -- Audio to MIDI Conversion -- Playing It Backward -- The Process Menu -- Deglitch -- Slide -- Nudge -- Quantize -- The Groove Quantize Feature -- Saving Groove Patterns -- The Interpolate Feature -- The Length Feature -- The Retrograde Feature -- The Transpose Feature -- The Scale Velocity Feature -- Fit to Time -- Fit Improvisation -- CHAPTER 9 Composing with Loops -- Groove Clips -- Creating Groove Clips -- The Loop Construction View.

Saving Groove Clips -- Exporting MIDI Groove Clips -- Working with Groove Clips -- The Loop Explorer View -- Controlling Project Pitch -- Pitch Markers -- A Groove Clip Exercise -- CHAPTER 10 Software Synthesis -- Using DX and VST Instruments -- The Insert DXi Synth Function -- The Synth Rack View -- The Cakewalk TTS-1 -- TTS-1 DXi Basics -- TTS-1 DXi Exercise -- The DreamStation -- Loading and Saving Instruments -- A DreamStation DXi Exercise -- The Cyclone -- Cyclone Basics -- Cyclone DXi Exercise -- The ReValver -- ReWire -- SoundFonts -- Using SoundFonts with a Compatible Sound Card -- CHAPTER 11 Exploring Effects -- Offline or Real-Time? -- Offline Processing -- Real-Time Processing -- Advantages and Disadvantages to Real-Time Processing -- The Freeze Tracks Function -- Audio Effects -- Delay -- Chorus -- Flanging -- Reverberation -- Dynamics -- Sonitus:fx Multiband -- Distortion -- Gargle -- Changing Time and Pitch -- Amplifier Simulation -- Analog Tape Simulation -- Other Effects -- MIDI Effects -- Automatic Arpeggios -- Chord Analysis -- Echo Delay -- MIDI Event Filter -- Quantize -- Transpose -- Velocity -- Session Drummer -- CHAPTER 12 Mixing It Down -- The Console View -- Opening the Console View -- The MIDI Track Modules -- The Audio Track Modules -- The Buses -- What Are the Buses Good For? -- The Mains -- Configuring the Console and Track Views -- Number of Buses -- The Track Managers -- Changing the Meters -- Taking Snapshots -- Automating the Mix -- Grouping -- Creating Groups -- Ungrouping -- Group Properties -- Remote Control -- Working with Envelopes -- Creating and Editing Envelopes -- Additional Envelope Editing -- Automating Effects and DXis -- Automating Effects Parameters -- Automating DXi Parameters -- The Next Steps -- CHAPTER 13 Surround Sound -- Setting Up Your Studio -- Surround Sound Cards -- Surround Sound Monitors.

Surround Monitor Setup -- Setting Up SONAR for Surround -- Surround Project Options -- Surround Sound Bussing -- Surround Sound Mixing -- Surround Sound Panning -- Surround Sound Effects -- Dedicated Surround Effects -- Using Stereo Effects in Surround -- Exporting Your Surround Project -- Downmixing -- Exporting to Multichannel WAV or WMA -- Encoding and Burning -- CHAPTER 14 Making Sheet Music -- The Staff View -- Changing the Layout -- Percussion Tracks -- Showing Pedal Events and Chord Grids -- Changing Text Fonts -- Rhythmic Appearance -- Filling and Trimming Durations -- Dealing with Notes -- Selecting -- Editing -- Drawing (or Adding) -- Erasing -- Scrub and Step Play -- Dealing with Symbols and Lyrics -- Chord Symbols and Grids -- Expression Marks -- Hairpin Symbols -- Editing a Hairpin Symbol -- Pedal Marks -- Lyrics -- The Fretboard and Tablature -- The Fretboard Pane -- Tablature -- Printing Your Music -- CHAPTER 15 Studio Control with StudioWare and Sysx -- System Exclusive -- The Sysx View -- Receiving System Exclusive Data -- Sending System Exclusive Data -- Editing Bank Data -- Sharing with Friends -- Introducing StudioWare -- The StudioWare View -- Opening a StudioWare Panel -- Taking a Snapshot -- Recording Control Movements -- CHAPTER 16 CAL 101 -- What Is CAL? -- Running a CAL Program -- The CAL Files -- Dominant 7th Chord.CAL -- Other Chord.CAL Programs -- Random Time.CAL -- Scale Velocity.CAL -- Split Channel to Tracks.CAL -- Split Note to Tracks.CAL -- Thin Controller Data.CAL -- Other Thin.CAL Programs -- Viewing CAL Programs -- CHAPTER 17 Advanced CAL Techniques -- Introduction to CAL Programming -- The Include Function -- Variables -- User Input -- The ForEachEvent Function -- Conditions -- Arithmetic -- Master Presets -- CAL References -- CHAPTER 18 Taking Your SONAR 4 Project to CD -- Preparing a Project for CD Audio.

Converting Your MIDI Tracks -- Converting Your DXi and VSTi Tracks -- Converting Your Audio Tracks -- Using Cakewalk MediaWorks/Pyro 2004 -- Burning CDs with Windows XP -- APPENDIX A: Backing Up Your Project Files -- Backing Up with MediaWorks/Pyro 2004 -- Backing Up with Windows XP -- APPENDIX B: Producing for Multimedia and the Web -- Importing Video Files -- Exporting Video Files -- Exporting Audio Files -- Preparing Audio for the Internet -- Exporting to RealAudio -- Exporting to Windows Media -- Exporting to MP3 -- APPENDIX C: SONAR Resources on the Web -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.