Workshop

Expandable Synthesizer Module and Audio Interface

SonicCell

Using SonicCell with SONAR
2008 Roland Corporation U.S. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of Roland Corporation U.S. SONAR is a trademark of Twelve Tone Systems, Inc. Twelve Tone Systems, Inc. is not associated or affiliated with Roland in any manner.

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About the Workshop Booklets
Rolands SonicCell is designed for modern musicians. Using USB, It adds a huge set of sounds to your digital audio workstation (or DAW) without adding to your computers workload. Its also an audio interface that can get signals from mics, instruments, or other devices to DAW tracks for recording. SonicCells Editor software allows you to program SonicCell from within your DAW. Onstage, its compact size also makes SonicCell the ideal companion for a laptop DAW, letting you perform and sing along with recorded tracks. Or use it to play back sequences and audio files from a USB memory stick. Each SonicCell Workshop booklet focuses on one SonicCell topic, and is intended as a companion to the SonicCell Owners Manual. This booklet requires SonicCell O.S. Version 1.11 or higher. You can download the latest SonicCell O.S. for free from www.RolandUS.com.
Understanding the Symbols in This Booklet
Throughout this booklet, youll come across information that deserves special attentionthats the reason its labeled with one of the following symbols.
A note is something that adds information about the topic at hand.
A tip offers suggestions for using the feature being discussed.
Warnings contain important information that can help you avoid possible damage to your equipment, your data, or yourself.

About This Booklet

This booklet contains instructions for using SonicCell with Cakewalks SONAR 7. (What well cover also applies to SONAR 6.) First well discuss recording MIDI tracks in SONAR using SonicCells synth sounds. Next, well talk about SonicCell as as an audio interface, telling you how to record both live audio and SonicCells synth sounds as audio tracks in SONAR.
Configuring SONAR to Work With SonicCell
Youve got three things to prepare in SONAR for using it with SonicCell: SONARs audio system, the SonicCell Editor, and SONARs MIDI system. The following sections walk you through these three operations.
Setting Up SONAR for SonicCell Audio
When you first launch SONAR, youll encounter warnings about not having any MIDI outputs and inputs selected. Click Continue with No MIDI Output and then Continue with No MIDI Input for now.
Heres how to set up SONAR so you can hear what youre doing through SonicCell. Well also prepare SONAR to record SonicCells synth sounds and any live audio youre sending through it:
Well assume youve installed and know how to operate SONARotherwise, consult SONARs built-in documentation in its Help menu. Well also assume youve read the Using SonicCell with a DAW and Using SonicCell as an Audio Interface Workshop booklets, that both SonicCell and your computer are hooked up and turned on, and that youre listening through SonicCell.
After launching SONAR, select Audio. from the Options menu to open the Audio Options window, and then click the Advanced tab. Set Driver Mode to ASIO, and click OK, as shown in the screenshot on the next page. 2
If you select a sampling rate other than the one SonicCell is using, youll see a message telling you thats not possible, and that SONARs sample rates been reset to match SonicCells.
To use another sampling rate, change SonicCells sample rate first as described in the Using the SonicCell with a DAW Workshop booklet.
If you want to work on a project in which audios already been recorded, first set SonicCells sample rate to match the projects.
Windows asks you to relaunch SONAR for your new settings to take effect.
Click the Drivers tab, and checkmark 1: Roland SonicCell IN L and 1: Roland SonicCell OUT L as input and output drivers, respectively, if theyre not already selected.
Click OK, quit SONAR, and then relaunch the program. After SONAR has restarted, close the Quick Start window and return to Audio. in the Options menu. In the Audio Options General tab, set Playback Timing Master to 1: Roland SonicCell:OUT 1, and check to make sure the Record Timing Master is also set to the same thing, as shown here.
Click OK to exit the Audio Options window. When you close the Audio Options window, Windows once again tells you that youll need to relaunch SONAR.

Quit and then relaunch SONAR.
Set Sampling Rate to SonicCells sampling rate. 3
Setting Up SONAR to Use the SonicCell Editor
In SONAR youll find the Cakewalk Plug-In Manager with which you register the SonicCell Editor as a plug-in for use with SONAR. Heres how:
Heres how to get SONAR to exchange MIDI data with SonicCell:
From SONARs Tools menu, select Cakewalk Plug-in Manager. In the VST Configuration area, click Options. In the Cakewalk VST Scan Paths window, click Add. Navigate to your C drive, the Program Files folderpresuming you used the default install locationhighlight the Roland folder, and click OK. Back in the Cakewalk VST Scan Paths window, click OKSONAR scans the displayed folders and displays all of its found plug-ins in the Cakewalk Plug-in Manager window. (Youll see the SonicCell Editor if you click VST Instruments (VSTi) in the left-hand pane. Click Close to finish registering the SonicCell Editor.
In SONAR, select MIDI Devices. from the Options menu to open the MIDI Devices window. In the Inputs and in the Outputs panes, select 1:Roland SonicCell so its checkmarked as shown here:
Setting Up SONAR for SonicCell MIDI
In the following sections, well assume a couple of things about the way youre working. Well assume
youve got SonicCell in Performance modeusing SonicCells PRST 01
Seq: Template performance to start with.
youve connected a MIDI controller to SonicCells MIDI IN jackand that
youve turned on SonicCells USB-MIDI Thru parameter, as described in the Using SonicCell with a DAW Workshop booklet.
Click OK. From the Options menu, select Global. to open the Global Options window. Make sure that Always Echo Current MIDI Track is checkmarked so that your SonicCell patch plays as you sequence, and click OK. SONAR is now set up to exchange MIDI data with SonicCell.
Creating a SonicCell Editor Track
Youll need to do this first so you have an easy way to select patches for your SonicCell synth tracks.
To close the Editor window at any time, click its Minimize buttonit then appears as a small launcher above the Task bar. To re-open it, click the launchers Restore Up button.
Select an unused audio track in your project, or add a new one. Click the tracks Restore Strip Size button to display its settings.
Once youve set up the editor, you can click its tracks Minimize Strip button to shrink the track vertically.
We recommend renaming the track Editor to make it easy to locate as your arrangement grows in complexity.
Using the SonicCell Editor

Part-selection area

If the new track doesnt look like what you see here, click the All tab at the bottom of the tracks area to reveal all of the tracks settings. 3

Patch-selection area

The SonicCell Editor launches and retrieves SonicCells current settings.
Mode-selection buttons Youll find detailed instructions for using the SonicCell Editor in its manual, which you can display by clicking the Help button in the SonicCell Editor window. What follows here are some quick instructions to get you started.
Everything you set up in the SonicCell Editor is automatically saved in your SONAR project. When you reload the project, the Editor automatically sets up the current performance in SonicCell to match.
Right-click in the tracks FX area and select VST SonicCell Editor from the DXi Synth menu.
Changes you make to SonicCell using the Editor affect SonicCells current performance, orif youre in Patch modeits current patch.
Selecting a Patch for a Part
You choose each patch you want to use in SONAR by selecting it for the part that a SONAR MIDI track is configured to play. Heres how:
Sequencing with SonicCell Patches
Open the project you want to work on, or create a new one. In SONAR, you can identify MIDI tracks by the MIDI jack icon to the left of a tracks name.
Click the desired parts number in the PARTS area of the Editor window. Select a patch for the part using the controls in the patch-selection area, circled in red on the previous page. To select a patch by:
If no unused MIDI tracks are available in the project, right-click below the projects tracks, and select Insert MIDI Track from the popup. Click the track you want to use, and click its Maximize Strip button to reveal its settings.
memory locationclick the PATCH NAME parameters popup
arrow to reveal SonicCells patches organized by their memory locations.
categoryclick the CATEGORY parameters popup arrow to
reveal SonicCells patches divided into categories.
You can select performances stored in SonicCell using the PERFORM NAME popup located above the part-selection area.

Digging Deeper

The SonicCell Editor lets you change the current performances sounds in a range of ways. The mode-selection buttons to the left of the Editor window determine the parameters you see and can edit at any given time. Theyre divided into the following sections:
Click the tracks Input popup arrow and select 1:Roland SonicCell Ch. 1 from the popup menu. Click the tracks Output popup arrow and select 1-1:Roland SonicCell from the popup menu. Set the Channel parameter to the number of the SonicCell part whose patch you want to sequence. Your tracks settings should look like this: Weve selected MIDI Channel 1 to play the patch belonging to Part 1.
SYSTEMThe buttons in this area allow you to set SonicCells global
behavior, and also get quick access to its input effect, a handy thing when youre recording live audio through SonicCell.
PERFORM EFFECTSThese buttons edit the performances effect setup. PERFORMThese parameters allow you to control the way each part
plays its patch, and lets you add effects to the patch.
PERFORM PATCHThese parameters allow you to dig right inside a
parts patch in order to edit it down to its most basic characteristics.
Before using the PERFORM PATCH buttons, be sure to select the part that plays the patch you want to edit. You do this by clicking the parts number in the part-selection area at the top of the window.
If you havent yet selected a patch on SonicCell to play from this track, use the SonicCell Editor to assign the desired patch to the part you want to use. Once youve done that, return to the MIDI track youve been setting up. 7 8
If no unused audio tracks are available in the project, right-click below the projects tracks, and select Insert Audio Track from the popup. Click the audio track to select it, and then its the Restore Strip Size button to reveal the tracks settings.
When you play your controller with your new track selected, you should hear the desired patch play in SonicCell. Record your SonicCell track as you would any other SONAR track when you play it back, youll hear its SonicCell patch play. (You can shrink the track vertically by clicking its Minimize Track button once youre done with it.) Repeat Steps 2-8 for other SonicCell tracks you want to sequence.
At this point, your track is sequenced, and youll hear it each time you play your project, including when you edit the track. However, the sound is still coming from SonicCell itselfit hasnt yet been recorded as an audio track in SONAR. Well get to that in the next section.

Click the tracks Input popup arrow and select the SonicCell output from which you want to record. To record
a mic or instrument connected to SonicCells Neutrik input jack
select Left Roland SonicCell IN L.
Recording Audio from SonicCell in SONAR
If you havent yet read the Using SonicCell as an Audio Interface Workshop booklet, read it now before proceeding. SonicCell offers lots of audio-interface options youll want to know about.
a stereo device connected to SonicCells Neutrik and (LINE) R input
jacksselect Stereo Roland SonicCell IN L.
a SonicCell synth patch in stereoselect Stereo Roland SonicCell
Setting Up an Audio Track for Recording
Selecting Audio to Record
Make sure the tracks Output is set to Roland SonicCell OUT L. When youre done, the tracks settings should look like this:
Open the project you want to work on, or create a new one. You can spot audio tracks by the waveform icon to the left of a tracks name.
Turn Off Software Monitoring
If youve connected a mic, instrument, or other device to one of
SonicCells inputs, disconnect it until youre ready to record its audio onto a SONAR track.
If the tracks channel strip isnt visible, click the track in the Track window. Click the channels Input Echo button so its not lit.
When you want to record live audio as a SONAR LE audio track, you can use

either of two methods:

If you need to hear your SonicCell synth tracks as you recordsend
your live audio through SonicCells input effect, and then set the TO COM parameter on the In/Out Routing screen to Input FX.
As we noted in the Using the SonicCell with a DAW Workshop booklet, you do have the option of listening through SONAR if you want to hear its effects as you record. However, unless you need to hear one of the SONARs effects while recording, we recommend listening through SonicCell since you may encounter latency listening directly through SONAR. 3
If you dont need to hear SonicCell synth tracks as you record
mute them in SONAR LE by clicking their Mute buttons to light them, or mute their parts in the SonicCell Editor.

The End

We hope youve found this workshop helpful. Keep an eye out for other SonicCell Workshop booklets available for downloading at www.RolandUS. com.
Record your track as you would any SONAR audio track. (As with a MIDI track, when youre ready to move to another track, you can reduce the size of the track by clicking its Minimize Track button.) Repeat the steps in these last two sections for any other audio tracks you want to record.

Before Recording: SonicCell Audio-Recording Strategy
Since SonicCell can simultaneously be the source of synth sounds and your live audio, a little thought needs to be given to making sure youre only recording exactly what you intend to record on any given track. When you want, for example, to record a single SonicCell synth sound on its own track, you dont want your other synth sounds to also find their way onto that track. Likewise, when you want to record a vocal or other live audio signal, you dont want to wind up with your synth tracks recorded on that live audio track. Heres what you have to do.
When you want to record a single synth track as a SONAR audio track mute any other SonicCell synth tracks you have in the song by
clicking their Mute buttons to light them, or mute their parts in the SonicCell Editor.

Workshop

Expandable Synthesizer Module and Audio Interface

SonicCell

Using SonicCell with SONAR LE
2008 Roland Corporation U.S. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of Roland Corporation U.S. SONAR LE is a trademark of Twelve Tone Systems, Inc. Twelve Tone Systems, Inc. is not associated or affiliated with Roland in any manner.

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About the Workshop Booklets
Rolands SonicCell is designed for modern musicians. Using USB, It adds a huge set of sounds to your digital audio workstation (or DAW) without adding to your computers workload. Its also an audio interface that can get signals from mics, instruments, or other devices to DAW tracks for recording. SonicCells Editor software allows you to program SonicCell from within your DAW. Onstage, its compact size also makes SonicCell the ideal companion for a laptop DAW, letting you perform and sing along with recorded tracks. Or use it to play back sequences and audio files from a USB memory stick. Each SonicCell Workshop booklet focuses on one SonicCell topic, and is intended as a companion to the SonicCell Owners Manual. This booklet requires SonicCell O.S. Version 1.11 or higher. You can download the latest SonicCell O.S. for free from www.RolandUS.com.
Understanding the Symbols in This Booklet
Throughout this booklet, youll come across information that deserves special attentionthats the reason its labeled with one of the following symbols.
A note is something that adds information about the topic at hand.
A tip offers suggestions for using the feature being discussed.
Warnings contain important information that can help you avoid possible damage to your equipment, your data, or yourself.

About This Booklet

This booklet contains instructions for using SonicCell with Cakewalks SONAR LE 5.2, which is included in the SonicCell box. First well discuss recording MIDI tracks in SONAR LE using SonicCells synth sounds. Next, well talk about SonicCell as as an audio interface, telling you how to record both live audio and SonicCells synth sounds as audio tracks in SONAR LE.
Configuring SONAR LE to Work With SonicCell
Youve got three things to prepare in SONAR LE for using it with SonicCell: SONAR LEs audio system, the SonicCell Editor, and SONAR LEs MIDI system. The following sections walk you through these three operations.
Setting Up SONAR LE for SonicCell Audio
When you first launch SONAR LE, youll encounter warnings about not having any MIDI outputs and inputs selected. Click Continue with No MIDI Output and then Continue with No MIDI Input for now.
Heres how to set up SONAR LE so you can hear what youre doing through SonicCell. Well also prepare SONAR LE to record SonicCells synth sounds and any live audio youre sending through it:
Well assume youve installed and know how to operate SONAR LEotherwise, consult SONAR LEs built-in documentation in its Help menu. Well also assume youve read the Using SonicCell with a DAW and Using SonicCell as an Audio Interface Workshop booklets, that both SonicCell and your computer are hooked up and turned on, and that youre listening through SonicCell.
After launching SONAR LE, select Audio. from the Options menu to open the Audio Options window, and then click the Advanced tab. Set Driver Mode to ASIO, and click OK, as shown in the screenshot on the next page.
If you select a sampling rate other than the one SonicCell is using, youll see a message telling you thats not possible, and that SONAR LEs sample rates been reset to match SonicCells.
To use another sampling rate, change SonicCells sample rate first as described in the Using the SonicCell with a DAW Workshop booklet.
If you want to work on a project in which audios already been recorded, first set SonicCells sample rate to match the projects. 7
Windows asks you to relaunch SONAR LE for your new settings to take effect.
Click the Drivers tab, and select 1: Roland SonicCell IN L and 1: Roland SonicCell OUT L as input and output drivers, respectively, if theyre not already selected.
Click OK, quit SONAR LE, and then relaunch the program. After SONAR LE has restarted, close the Quick Start window and return to Audio. in the Options menu. In the Audio Options General tab, set Playback Timing Master to 1: ROLAND SonicCell:OUT 1Record Timing Master is automatically set to the same thing, as shown here.
Click OK to exit the Audio Options window. When you close the Audio Options window, Windows once again tells you that youll need to relaunch SONAR LE.
Quit and then relaunch SONAR LE.
Set Sampling Rate to SonicCells sampling rate. 3
Setting Up SONAR LE to Use the SonicCell Editor
When you install the SONAR LE that came with SonicCell, the VST Adaptor application is installed on your hard drive.

Setting Up SONAR LE for SonicCell MIDI
In the following sections, well assume a couple of things about the way youre working. Well assume
youve got SonicCell in Performance modeusing SonicCells PRST 01
Seq: Template performance to start with.
Use Cakewalks VST Adaptor application to register the SonicCell Editor as a plug-in for SONAR LE. With the version of SONAR LE that ships with SonicCell, youll need to update SONAR LEs VST Adaptor application. Youll find this program on the CD-ROM that came with SonicCell. To update the VST Adaptor:
youve connected a MIDI controller to SonicCells MIDI IN jackand that
youve turned on SonicCells USB-MIDI Thru parameter, as described in the Using SonicCell with a DAW Workshop booklet. Heres how to get SONAR LE to exchange MIDI data with SonicCell:
Insert the SonicCell Editor CD, and open its Sonar Utility folder. Open the VST Adapter folder. Double-click VSTAdapter453Update_E file to launch the VST Adaptor updater. In the Select Language window, select U.S. English, and click OK. In the Welcome! window, click Nextthe update is applied, and the Wrap VST Plugins window appears. Click Cancelthe Install window appears warning you that setup is not complete, but it is for us, so click Exit Setup.
In SONAR LE, select MIDI Devices. from the Options menu to open the MIDI Devices window. In the Inputs and in the Outputs panes, select 1:Roland SonicCell so its highlighted:
Once youve updated the application:
From the Start menu, select All Programs > Cakewalk > Cakewalk VST Adapter > Cakewalk VST Adapter 4. When the Cakewalk VST Configuration Wizard: Welcome window opens, click Next. In the Cakewalk VST Configuration Wizard: Search Paths window, click Add. Navigate to your C drive, the Program Files folderpresuming you used the default install locationhighlight the Roland folder, and click OK. Back in the Cakewalk VST Configuration Wizard: Search Paths window, click NextSonicCell Editor VST appears in the resulting Cakewalk VST Configuration Wizard: Plugin Configuration window. Click Next to finish registering the SonicCell Editor.
Click OK. From the Options menu, select Global. to open the Global Options window. Make sure that Always Echo Current MIDI Track is checkmarked so that your SonicCell patch plays as you sequence, and click OK. SONAR LE is now set up to exchange MIDI data with SonicCell.
Creating a SonicCell Editor Track
Youll need to do this first so you have an easy way to select patches for your SonicCell synth tracks.
Changes you make to SonicCell using the Editor affect SonicCells current performance, orif youre in Patch modeits current patch. 5

Select an unused audio track in your project, or insert a new one. Click the tracks Restore Strip Size button to display its settings.
To close the Editor window at any time, click its Minimize buttonit then appears as a small launcher above the Task bar. To re-open it, click the launchers Restore Up button.
Once youve set up the editor, you can click its SONAR LE tracks Minimize Strip button to shrink the track vertically.
We recommend renaming the track Editor to make it easy to locate as your arrangement grows in complexity.
Using the SonicCell Editor

Part-selection area

If the new track doesnt look like the one here, click the All tab at the bottom of the tracks area to reveal all of the tracks settings. 3

Patch-selection area

The SonicCell Editor launches and retrieves SonicCells current performances settings.
Mode-selection buttons Youll find detailed instructions for using the SonicCell Editor in its manual, which you can display by clicking the Help button in the SonicCell Editor window. What follows here are some quick instructions to get you started. 5
Right-click in the tracks FX area and select VST SonicCell Editor from the DXi Synth popup menu.
Everything you set up in the SonicCell Editor is automatically saved in your SONAR LE project. When you reload the project, the Editor automatically sets up the current performance in SonicCell to match.
Before using the PERFORM PATCH buttons, be sure to select the part that plays the patch you want to edit. You do this by clicking the parts number in the part-selection area at the top of the window.
Selecting a Patch for a Part
You choose each patch you want to use in SONAR LE by selecting it for the part that a SONAR LE MIDI track is configured to play. Heres how:
Sequencing with SonicCell Patches
Open the project you want to work on, or create a new one. In SONAR LE, you can identify MIDI tracks by the MIDI jack icon to the left of a tracks name.
Click the desired parts number in the PARTS area of the Editor window. Select a patch for the part using the controls in the patch-selection area, circled in red on the previous page. To select a patch by:

If no unused MIDI tracks are available in the project, right-click below the projects tracks, and select Insert MIDI Track from the popup. Click the track you want to use, and click its Restore Strip Size button to reveal its settings.
memory locationclick the PATCH NAME parameters popup
arrow to reveal SonicCells patches organized by their memory locations.
categoryclick the CATEGORY parameters popup arrow to
reveal SonicCells patches divided into categories.
You can select performances stored in SonicCell using the PERFORM NAME popup located above the part-selection area.

Digging Deeper

The SonicCell Editor lets you change the current performances sounds in a range of ways. The mode-selection buttons to the left of the Editor window determine the parameters you see and can edit at any given time. Theyre divided into the following sections:
Click the tracks Input popup arrow and select 1:Roland SonicCell Ch. 1 from the popup menu. Click the tracks Output popup arrow and select 1-1:Roland SonicCell from the popup menu. Set the Channel parameter to the number of the SonicCell part whose patch you want to sequence.
SYSTEMThe buttons in this area allow you to set SonicCells global
behavior, and also get quick access to its input effect, a handy thing when youre recording live audio through SonicCell.
PERFORM EFFECTSThese buttons edit the performances effect setup. PERFORMThese parameters allow you to control the way each part
plays its patch, and lets you add effects to the patch.
PERFORM PATCHThese parameters allow you to dig right inside a
parts patch in order to edit it down to its most basic characteristics.
Weve selected MIDI Channel 1 to play the patch belonging to Part 1.
If you havent yet selected a patch on SonicCell to play from this track, open the SonicCell Editor and assign the desired patch to the part you want to use. Once youve done that, return to the MIDI track youve been setting up. 7 8
If no unused audio tracks are available in the project, right-click below the projects tracks, and select Insert Audio Track from the popup. Click the audio track to select it, and then its the Restore Strip Size button to reveal the tracks settings.
When you play your controller with your new track selected, you should hear the desired patch play in SonicCell. Record your SonicCell track as you would any other SONAR LE track when you play it back, youll hear its SonicCell patch play. (You can shrink the track vertically by clicking its Minimize Track button once youre done with it.) Repeat Steps 2-8 for other SonicCell tracks you want to sequence.
At this point, your track is sequenced, and youll hear it each time you play your project, including when you edit the track. However, the sound is still coming from SonicCell itselfit hasnt yet been recorded as an audio track in SONAR LE. Well get to that in the next section.

Click the tracks Input popup arrow and select the SonicCell output from which you want to record. To record
a mic or instrument connected to SonicCells Neutrik input jack
select Left Roland SonicCell IN L.
Recording Audio from SonicCell in SONAR LE
If you havent yet read the Using SonicCell as an Audio Interface Workshop booklet, read it now before proceeding. SonicCell offers lots of audio-interface options youll want to know about.
a stereo device connected to SonicCells Neutrik and (LINE) R input
jacksselect Stereo Roland SonicCell IN L.
a SonicCell synth patch in stereoselect Stereo Roland SonicCell
Setting Up an Audio Track for Recording
Selecting Audio to Record
Make sure the tracks Output is set to Roland SonicCell OUT L. When youre done, the tracks settings should look like this:
Open the project you want to work on, or create a new one. You can spot audio tracks by the waveform icon to the left of a tracks name.
Turn Off Software Monitoring
If youve connected a mic, instrument, or other device to one of
SonicCells inputs, disconnect it until youre ready to record its audio onto a SONAR LE track.
If the tracks channel strip isnt visible, click the track in the Track window. Click the channels Input Echo button so its not lit.
When you want to record live audio as a SONAR LE audio track, you can use

either of two methods:

If you need to hear your SonicCell synth tracks as you recordsend
your live audio through SonicCells input effect, and then set the TO COM parameter on the In/Out Routing screen to Input FX.
As we noted in the Using the SonicCell with a DAW Workshop booklet, you do have the option of listening through SONAR LE if you want to hear its effects as you record. However, unless you need to hear one of the SONAR LEs effects while recording, we recommend listening through SonicCell since you may encounter latency listening directly through SONAR LE. 3
If you dont need to hear SonicCell synth tracks as you record
mute them in SONAR LE by clicking their Mute buttons to light them, or mute their parts in the SonicCell Editor.

The End

We hope youve found this workshop helpful. Keep an eye out for other SonicCell Workshop booklets available for downloading at www.RolandUS. com.
Record your track as you would any SONAR LE audio track. (As with a MIDI track, when youre ready to move to another track, you can reduce the size of the track by clicking its Minimize Track button.) Repeat the steps in these last two sections for any other audio tracks you want to record.
Before Recording: SonicCell Audio-Recording Strategy
Since SonicCell can simultaneously be the source of synth sounds and your live audio, a little thought needs to be given to making sure youre only recording exactly what you intend to record on any given track. When you want, for example, to record a single SonicCell synth sound on its own track, you dont want your other synth sounds to also find their way onto that track. Likewise, when you want to record a vocal or other live audio signal, you dont want to wind up with your synth tracks recorded on that live audio track. Heres what you have to do.
When you want to record a single synth track as a SONAR LE audio track mute any other SonicCell synth tracks you have in the song by
clicking their Mute buttons to light them, or mute their parts in the SonicCell Editor.