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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 “DAW”) without
adding to your computer’s workload. It’s also an audio interface that can get
signals from mics, instruments, or other devices to DAW tracks for recording.
SonicCell’s Editor software allows you to program SonicCell from within your
DAW. Onstage, its compact size also makes SonicCell the ideal companion
for a laptop DAW, letting you perform and sing along with recorded tracks.
Or use it to play back sequences and audio files from a USB memory stick.
Each SonicCell Workshop booklet focuses on one SonicCell topic, and is
intended as a companion to SonicCell Owner’s Manual. This booklet requires
SonicCell O.S. Version 1.11 or higher. You can download the latest SonicCell
O.S. for free from www.RolandUS.com.
About This Booklet
This booklet provides an overview of using SonicCell with a DAW. We’ll also
provide instructions for installing SonicCell’s driver and Editor, Librarian,
and Playlist Editor software, and for configuring your computer for use with
SonicCell. Other booklets get into the details of using SonicCell as an audio
interface and of using it with specific DAWs.
Understanding the Symbols in This Booklet
Throughout this booklet, you’ll come across information that deserves
special attention—that’s the reason it’s labeled with one of the following
symbols.
A note is something that adds information about the topic at hand.
A tip offers suggestions for using the feature being discussed.
Warnings contain important information that can help you avoid
possible damage to your equipment, your data, or yourself.
Hot Links
Each Workshop booklet is meant to be read in order from beginning
to end. However, if we mention an upcoming section—and you see
this arrow—you can click the arrow to jump there immediately.
The Players in a SonicCell/DAW System
SonicCell
Your SonicCell acts as
a synthesizer—
• that contributes sounds to a
musical arrangement in your DAW.
an audio interface—
• that can send live audio from mics and instruments
into the DAW, and through which you listen to what you’re doing.
a MIDI THRU box—
• that passes MIDI data from your controller to the
DAW for recording, or “sequencing.”
Your Computer
Your computer acts as host for the software you use,
including
your DAW—
• in which you record and play back
MIDI and/or audio data.
the SonicCell Editor—
• in which you select and edit SonicCell’s patches.
the SonicCell Librarian and Playlist Editor—
• you use for archiving SonicCell
patches and for organizing files to be played from a USB memory stick.
A MIDI Controller
When you play your MIDI controller—typically a keyboard—the controller
sends out MIDI data representing your performance through SonicCell to