Cakewalk - SONAR X3 Documentation - Tutorial 1 – Creating, playing, and saving projects

Tutorial 1 – Creating, playing, and saving projects

Tutorial 1 – Creating, playing, and saving projects

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

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