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Let’s try operating sonar, Transport, Ch assign – Roland Studio Package Pro User Manual

Page 21: Faders 1–12, Master fader, Transport ch assign faders 1–12 master fader

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Quick Start

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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).