Roland Recording Equipment SCWS03 User Guide

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Workshop  
Expandable Synthesizer Module  
and Audio Interface  
SonicCell  
Using SonicCell with SONAR LE  
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SCWS03  
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If you select a sampling rate other than the one SonicCell is using,  
you’ll see a message telling you that’s not possible, and that SONAR  
LE’s sample rate’s been reset to match SonicCell’s.  
To use another sampling rate, change SonicCell’s 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 audio’s already been  
recorded, first set SonicCell’s sample rate to match the project’s.  
Windows asks you to relaunch SONAR LE for your new settings to  
take effect.  
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Click the Drivers tab, and select 1: Roland SonicCell IN L and 1: Roland  
SonicCell OUT L as input and output drivers, respectively, if they’re  
not already selected.  
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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.  
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In the Audio Options General tab, set Playback Timing Master to 1:  
ROLAND SonicCell:OUT 1—Record Timing Master is automatically set  
to the same thing, as shown here.  
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Click OK to exit the Audio Options window.  
When you close the Audio Options window, Windows once again  
tells you that you’ll need to relaunch SONAR LE.  
Quit and then relaunch SONAR LE.  
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Set Sampling Rate to SonicCell’s sampling rate.  
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Setting Up SONAR LE to Use the SonicCell Editor  
Setting Up SONAR LE for SonicCell MIDI  
In the following sections, we’ll assume a couple of things about the way  
you’re working. We’ll assume  
When you install the SONAR LE that came with SonicCell, the VST  
Adaptor application is installed on your hard drive.  
you’ve got SonicCell in Performance mode—using SonicCell’s PRST 01  
Seq: Template performance to start with.  
Use Cakewalk’s 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, you’ll need to update SONAR LE’s VST Adaptor application. You’ll  
find this program on the CD-ROM that came with SonicCell.  
you’ve connected a MIDI controller to SonicCell’s MIDI IN jack—and that  
you’ve turned on SonicCell’s USB-MIDI Thru parameter, as described in  
the Using SonicCell with a DAW Workshop booklet.  
Here’s how to get SONAR LE to exchange MIDI data  
with SonicCell:  
To update the VST Adaptor:  
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Insert the SonicCell Editor CD, and open its Sonar Utility folder.  
Open the VST Adapter folder.  
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In SONAR LE, select MIDI Devices... from the  
Options menu to open the MIDI Devices  
window.  
Double-click VSTAdapter453Update_E file to launch the VST Adaptor  
updater.  
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In the Inputs and in the Outputs panes, select  
1:Roland SonicCell so it’s highlighted:  
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In the Select Language window, select U.S. English, and click OK.  
In the Welcome! window, click Next—the update is applied, and the  
Wrap VST Plugins window appears.  
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Click Cancel—the Install window appears warning you that setup is  
not complete, but it is for us, so click Exit Setup.  
Once you’ve updated the application:  
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From the Start menu, select All Programs > Cakewalk > Cakewalk VST  
Adapter > Cakewalk VST Adapter 4.  
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Click OK.  
When the Cakewalk VST Configuration Wizard: Welcome window  
opens, click Next.  
From the Options menu, select Global... to open the Global Options  
window.  
In the Cakewalk VST Configuration Wizard: Search Paths window,  
click Add...  
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Make sure that Always Echo Current MIDI Track is checkmarked so  
that your SonicCell patch plays as you sequence, and click OK.  
Navigate to your C drive, the Program Files folder—presuming you  
used the default install location—highlight the Roland folder, and  
click OK.  
SONAR LE is now set up to exchange MIDI data with SonicCell.  
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Back in the Cakewalk VST Configuration Wizard: Search Paths window,  
click Next—SonicCell Editor VST appears in the resulting Cakewalk  
VST Configuration Wizard: Plugin Configuration window.  
Click Next to finish registering the SonicCell Editor.  
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Creating a SonicCell Editor Track  
Changes you make to SonicCell using the Editor affect SonicCell’s  
current performance, or—if you’re in Patch mode—its current patch.  
You’ll need to do this first so you have an easy way to  
select patches for your SonicCell synth tracks.  
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To close the Editor window at any time, click its Minimize button—it  
then appears as a small launcher above the Task bar. To re-open it,  
click the launcher’s Restore Up button.  
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Select an unused audio track in your project,  
or insert a new one.  
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Click the track’s Restore Strip Size button to  
display its settings.  
Once you’ve set up the editor, you can click its SONAR LE track’s  
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  
Patch-selection area  
If the new track doesn’t look like the one here, click the All tab at the  
bottom of the tracks area to reveal all of the track’s settings.  
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Right-click in the track’s FX area and  
select VST SonicCell Editor from the  
DXi Synth popup menu.  
The SonicCell Editor launches  
and retrieves SonicCell’s current  
performance’s settings.  
You’ll 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.  
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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 part’s  
number in the part-selection area at the top of the window.  
Selecting a Patch for a Part  
Sequencing with SonicCell Patches  
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. Here’s how:  
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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 track’s name.  
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Click the desired part’s number in the PARTS area of the Editor  
window.  
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If no unused MIDI tracks are available in the  
project, right-click below the project’s tracks,  
and select Insert MIDI Track from the popup.  
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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:  
memory location—click the PATCH NAME parameter’s popup  
arrow to reveal SonicCell’s patches organized by their memory  
locations.  
Click the track you want to use, and click its  
Restore Strip Size button to reveal its settings.  
category—click the CATEGORY parameter’s popup arrow to  
reveal SonicCell’s patches divided into categories.  
You can select performances stored in SonicCell using the PERFORM  
NAME popup located above the part-selection area.  
Digging Deeper  
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Click the track’s Input popup arrow and select 1:Roland SonicCell -  
Ch. 1 from the popup menu.  
The SonicCell Editor lets you change the current performance’s 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. They’re  
divided into the following sections:  
Click the track’s 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.  
SYSTEM—The buttons in this area allow you to set SonicCell’s global  
behavior, and also get quick access to its input effect, a handy thing  
when you’re recording live audio through SonicCell.  
We’ve selected  
MIDI Channel 1  
to play the patch  
belonging to  
Part 1.  
PERFORM EFFECTS—These buttons edit the performance’s effect setup.  
PERFORM—These parameters allow you to control the way each part  
plays its patch, and lets you add effects to the patch.  
PERFORM PATCH—These parameters allow you to dig right inside a  
part’s patch in order to edit it down to its most basic characteristics.  
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If no unused audio tracks are available in the  
project, right-click below the project’s tracks,  
and select Insert Audio Track from the popup.  
If you haven’t 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 you’ve done that, return to the MIDI track you’ve  
been setting up.  
Click the audio track to select it, and then its  
the Restore Strip Size button to reveal the  
track’s settings.  
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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, you’ll hear its SonicCell patch play. (You can  
shrink the track vertically by clicking its Minimize Track button once  
you’re done with it.)  
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Repeat Steps 2-8 for other SonicCell tracks you want to sequence.  
At this point, your track is sequenced, and you’ll hear it each time you  
play your project, including when you edit the track. However, the  
sound is still coming from SonicCell itself—it hasn’t yet been recorded  
as an audio track in SONAR LE. We’ll get to that in the next section.  
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Click the track’s Input popup arrow and select the SonicCell output  
from which you want to record. To record  
a mic or instrument connected to SonicCell’s Neutrik input jack—  
select Left Roland SonicCell IN L.  
Recording Audio from SonicCell in SONAR LE  
If you haven’t yet read the Using SonicCell as an Audio Interface  
Workshop booklet, read it now before proceeding. SonicCell offers lots  
of audio-interface options you’ll want to know about.  
a stereo device connected to SonicCell’s Neutrik and (LINE) R input  
jacks—select Stereo Roland SonicCell IN L.  
a SonicCell synth patch in stereo—select Stereo Roland SonicCell  
IN L.  
Setting Up an Audio Track for Recording  
Selecting Audio to Record  
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Make sure the track’s Output is set to Roland SonicCell OUT L. When  
you’re done, the track’s settings should look like this:  
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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 track’s name.  
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If you’ve connected a mic, instrument, or other device to one of  
SonicCell’s inputs, disconnect it until you’re ready to record its  
audio onto a SONAR LE track.  
Turn Off Software Monitoring  
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If the track’s channel strip isn’t visible, click the track in the Track  
window.  
When you want to record live audio as a SONAR LE audio track, you can use  
either of two methods:  
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Click the channel’s Input Echo button so  
it’s not lit.  
If you need to hear your SonicCell synth tracks as you record—send  
your live audio through SonicCell’s 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 LE’s effects while recording, we recommend listening  
through SonicCell since you may encounter latency listening directly  
through SONAR LE.  
If you don’t 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  
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Record your track as you would any SONAR LE audio track. (As with  
a MIDI track, when you’re ready to move to another track, you can  
reduce the size of the track by clicking its Minimize Track button.)  
We hope you’ve found this workshop helpful. Keep an eye out for other  
SonicCell Workshop booklets available for downloading at www.RolandUS.  
com.  
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 you’re 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 don’t 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 don’t want to wind up with your synth tracks recorded on that  
live audio track.  
Here’s 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.  
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