SONAR MIDI TUTORIAL

Seems this has been a busy month with sorting out peoples midi problems. The information is all there in the help files but possibly the way it is presented might be hard for some folks to figure out. 
So I don't have to keep repeating the same instructions over and over I've made some screen shots with a step by step on how to set up a Sonar project with midi. The first one here is playing a downloaded midi file from download to export. 
I have included a sample midi file for you to use and follow the instructions with. 
 
http://www.cactusmusic.ca/Sonarmidi.htm
 
 
Next I will do one on starting your own midi project from scratch. 
There is always more than one way to do anything in Sonar. I'm just going to show you how I do it.  
All versions of Sonar can follow this. 
I will also publish this to a PDF document for those who would like a hard copy. 
From now on when some one asks a midi question I'm going to refer to this page. 
 

Johnny
That sure looks nice and lots of work put into it. 
I don't need midi help, been using midi since the late 80's. 
But i commend you on your efforts and the time you spend helping others.
Great Job!

Way to go Johnny.  

Thanks everyone for your kind words and as always your support. I just like to pay back what I have learned here myself. 
I have added the link to my signature so it will always be easy to find. 
 

 Thanks Johnny!

Excellent tutorial Johnny,
 
As Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs professes I am a "permanent apprentice", always learning.  Presently I'm switching from a XP based desktop with Music Creator 6 to Win 7 based laptop with Home Studio.  Everything is familiar but nothing is the same so your tutorial is presented at just the right time for me.
 
May I suggest you add a reference to the default directory path of Studio Instruments? I had to "guide" the Home Studio browser to the location (c:/Program Files (86)/Cakewalk/Studio Instruments) before Home Studio could find the location.
 
Once again thanks for the effort.  It is helping me tremendously.

 
Thanks once again everyone. I'm just about to dive into part 2 which will be creating a song from scratch  using midi as the "Band" . 
I will stick to very basic operations here or this will become a monster. 
I've already got ideas for a few more. I'm focusing on basic newbie stuff. We already have plenty of advanced tutorials here. 
I will avoid 3rd party plug ins as I want everybody to be able to follow along on any version. I might screw up with a feature or plug in that Home Studio or Artist might not have and will try and point out alternatives. It's hard for me because I don't have a computer with JUST Home Studio so my version has a lot of plug ins available. 
Please post any errors you might find here in this thread and I can quickly fix them. This is the beauty of having you own web site. Edits are easy and quick. 
 
I also have a lot of information about general recording with Sonar here: http://www.cactusmusic.ca/Recording.htm
 
 

As good as it gets, Johnny. Totally understandable, comprehensive and beautiful to boot.