Reference Guide

1146 System exclusive data
Editing Sysx banks
Editing Sysx banks
Editing a Sysx bank is very similar to creating one.
To edit a Sysx bank
1. In the Sysx view, select the bank you want to edit, and click Edit > Edit Data (or double-click the
selected bank).
The Edit System Exclusive Bytes dialog box appears.
2. Edit your message(s). Each message in the window must begin with F0 and end with F7 (that’s F
zero and F seven). See your instrument’s manual for the messages you can create.
3. When you finish editing the message(s), click OK to close the window.
Save your project when you’re finished.
See also:
“Importing, creating, and dumping Sysx banks” on page 1143
“Sysx view menu” on page 1146
Sysx view menu
The Sysx view menu contains the following commands.
File menu
• Open. Load a .syx file into the selected Sysx bank.
• Send. Transmit the current bank’s System Exclusive message. If nothing seems to happen,
make sure you have correctly set the output. This command is disabled if the current bank is
empty.
• Send All. Transmit all non-empty Sysx banks.
• 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.).
• Save. Save the selected Sysx bank as a .syx file. This is a good way to copy a Sysx bank
between two SONAR project files. Save the bank into a file, load the other SONAR project file,