Reference Guide

70 Introduction
Starting SONAR
The Quick Start dialog box has several options.
If you don’t want to see the Quick Start dialog box in the future, uncheck the box at the bottom of
the dialog box, and click Close. You can see the Quick Start dialog box later by choosing Help >
Quick Start.
RIFF/MID will not launch SONAR when double-clicked
Migrating preferences
If you have a previous version of Cakewalk installed, SONAR will detect it and give you the option of
migrating certain preferences from a single earlier version.
When you choose to migrate preferences, SONAR migrates the following settings from an earlier
Cakewalk version.
Option How to use it
Open a Project Choose a project from the Open File dialog box to open it
Open a Recent Project Select a project from the list, and click this button to open it
Create a New Project Click here to create a new project.
Online Videos and more Click this link to view our tutorial videos online. An active Internet
connection is needed in order to access this content.
Getting Started Click here to view the “Getting started” on page 3 topic in the Help file.
This topic has links to a glossary of terms, as well as some basic
procedures.
Table 1.
Note: Double-clicking RIFF MIDI files and Standard MIDI files will fail to launch SONAR even if
these file types are associated with SONAR.
Setting Description
Global Options Global settings in the Preferences dialog box. Open by selecting Edit >
Preferences.
Key Bindings Your customized key bindings for controlling SONAR using your MIDI
keyboard or computer keyboard.
Table 2.