Hi, Jason, To learn more than you may ever want to know about using SONAR: From your desktop, select "CakeTalking for SONAR 4", type a letter t to open the Tutorials folder and arrow down to the CakeTalking Tutorial for SONAR 4 document and press ENTER. To review and change your MIDI settings: Press ALT+O, and press ENTER The input and output driver you prefer should be checked and appear at the top of the list. If the ones you want do not appear at top of list, select the option to move them to the top. After you OK that, press ALT+O, and the letter O to select your default audio options. Make sure that the play back and record masters are set for your preferred M-Audio soundcard. See Lesson 32B. SELECTING AN AUDIO OUTPUT PORT. If you need to change your "normal" template or any other templates, see the following: LESSON 1. LOADING A PROJECT. THE OPEN DIALOG. THE NEW PROJECT DIALOG. Particularly, 1B. The New Project Dialog. LESSON 9. SAVING A PROJECT. 9B. Saving as a Different File Type. In general, try to learn what you need to know as you need to know it but also try to read the tutorial lessons in sequence to get some organized knowledge about CakeTalking and SONAR. Great to see you posting to the list. Have fun with SONAR! Bill -----Original Message----- From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin L. Gibbs Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 12:19 PM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Brand new user When you choose your soundcard and other things that you want for every project, save your settings in a template file under files of type. Make sure that the template file is saved in the sample content folder, not the cakewalk projects folder. Kevin -----Original Message----- From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jason Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 6:56 AM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Brand new user I just started useing sonar yesterday and was wondering if it is possible to set defalts. Everytime i pick a track i have to pick my m audio sound card, and my key board to be used. is there a quik easy way to set sonar to use my sound card and keyboard everytime i turn it on. Any other helpful hints about getting started would be welcomed, too. Thank you, Jason Doorish ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq