bank/patch changes to external gear

[girvan]

Hi,
In SONAR 1 how can I send bank/patch changes to external rack gear such as fx processors and light controllers? They are all midi compatible. I want to be able to change vocal and guitar fx with the sequencer during a song.
thanks.

[AlChuck]

Assign a track to each processor/device you want to communicate with. If you have more than one MIDI interface port, select the desired one. Assign each track's output to a specific MIDI channel dedicated to this use only (otherwise some MIDI instrument is going to pick up a patch change!).

On the processor side, you need to set it to receive on the channel you are sending from SONAR on, and the documentation should tell you what the patch change messages should be (it's usually in a "MIDI Implementation Chart" at the back of the manual.

At the point in time in the appropriate track, put in a patch change message. You can also send control messages to some devices so rather than change patches, some parameters shift values -- I believe they typically respond to MIDI controller messages.

That should get you there...

[girvan]

great thanks. that should get me going.