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