Tutorial 1 - Creating, playing, and saving projects

 

Note: The core SONAR installer does not include any tutorial content. In order to follow along with the tutorials, please download and install the optional SONAR Tutorials via Cakewalk Command Center (see Cakewalk Command Center).

Understanding and managing project files is central to your workflow in SONAR. In this tutorial, we are going to cover the basics of getting started with project files and some of the operations that can be performed with them. Whenever you write or record music in SONAR, you are writing it to be saved into a project. A project can contain a variety of elements, including:

Audio tracks

MIDI tracks

Instrument tracks

Audio effects

Project settings such as Tempo, Key and Meter changes

Lyrics and notation

 

See:

Creating a new project

Opening project files

Playing project files

Looping project files

Saving project files