beginner questions

r4dolan,

You would do yourself lots of good and save time if you run through the embedded tutorials in Sonar. That way you will have a hang on Sonar terminologies, language, and phrases and of course, I strongly suspect that your question would be answered more accurately.

There are a couple of materials also on U Tub and the Sonar Video achieves.

To patch-on a soft synth in sonar, goto <<insert>>, <<soft synth>> and select a particular one you are interested in the list that appears. If the list is not impressive as it is, then go to the plug in manager and scan for additional plug-ins such as; session drummer, cakewalk TTS, Cyclone name it as long as it is supported in Sonar.

Welcome to the world of electronic musicianship. It is fun.