[Sysx view] File > Receive

Dump data from a synthesizer into the selected Sysx bank. If the bank contains data, Sonar asks you whether you want the new data to overwrite the existing data or be appended to it.

When receiving dumps, remember to connect both the MIDI In and Out ports of the synthesizer to the MIDI interface. Also, make sure that your instruments are set up to receive and/or transmit Sysx. Synthesizers that you normally use only to play sounds—for example, sound modules that don’t have keyboards—don’t need to be hooked up in both directions except for receiving dumps, so it is easy to forget this. (If you will only be sending Sysx messages to the device, the normal one-direction hookup is sufficient.).