Another Superior Drummer question

I feel your pain! I learned how to use it on my own after a lot of throwing stuff  so hopefully I can help. 
 
This applies to SD2.0
 
1. You have to load SD into your project (I am hoping you can do that) it should ask you to select your output settings. Start with these: select midi>all tracks stereo or mono (up to you)>midi output
2. Once you open SD then click "grooves" from the menu in SD (you should have Pop/Rock default in there)
each set of grooves are dependent on what expansion packs you have installed and the default is Pop/Rock. If you have more they will be listed*
3. Once you open grooves there are a few lists to choose from and once you choose each list it will open a final one on the right with (ex: closed hi hat, open hi hat groove clips etc) the list on the far right is what you drag to the midi track in clips pane view.
4. Arrange clips into some sort of order to make the drum grooves. Keep your snap to grid on to make it easier to arrange in time.
hit play on the track and you should hear the clip you dragged over. You have to drag each and every clip you want to make the entire drum track. (once you get good at this then you can use a keyboard to make your own grooves)
refer to Cakewalk set up manual to set up midi output.
 
Once your drum tracks are the way you like then you have to convert the midi track to an audio track by bouncing the track to a new track. (this will make a wav file and convert it to audio). I believe it is in edit menu at vert top ring menu drop down. Bounce to track is what you want and in that there are choices so select TRACKS for whatever number track contain the midi SD track clips. If you have the SD set to multi out it will make a separate track for each kit piece: kick, snare etc. I like it that way. (sorry not near my pc at the moment) 
 
If I can help more just ask! I'll do my best to help. I have been there like I said and now use SD and EZ Drummer all the time. I love it.
 
 

Of course you can make your own ones from a scratch. You simply draw them in Piano Roll view or record the MIDI with your MIDI-keyboard or controller, if you have one.
 
I've never understood why people go Googling or to Youtube or wherever, when all the manuals and tutorials you need to learn SONAR come with it. In this case it's all on the SONAR DVD and SD's help files, I'm sure. There is deeper info and practical advice in CakeTV and elsewhere, sure, but I can't recall ever coming across a problem that the manuals of SONAR and/or the VST had not answered.
SD is not different from any soft synth: MIDI recorded on the MIDI track triggers the synth.

Well, the main problem is fear of the unknown. All you have to do is have one thing set wrong and youll be sitting there for hours, days, or even years, because nobody can actually understand your problem - it all seems so easy to them.
 
One perfect example is that yesterday, I got things so that I was able to program grooves into SD using my old drum machine, but when I played it back in Sonar, the beat was all chopped up. It took me a whole day to figure out that the quantization was actually turned on and forcing the beat to a different time than what I wanted. Once I turned it off, Sonar played my beat back the way I wanted it. Now, I could have read the manual all day long and it wouldnt have told me that, that was the problem.
 
Anyway, Im doing a little bit better now. I was able to set up my Alesis SR16 to be able to drive the SD software, and I guess between that and the piano roll function, I can get my beats recorded.
 
So, I thank you guys, but like the terminator said; "I'll be back"!