Sonar 7 Won't Play Softsynths

When you open up a softsynth, Sonar creates a midi track and an audio track. Do you have the corresponding audio track configured so you can hear it?

Sorry you had to come here for help.

I don't understand why you feel that by coming to the user forum you were "relegated". Many folks would come here first before they bothered tech support with this type of question. Its more a case of your understanding or the lack of it of how SONAR processes MIDI through a softsynth to generate Audio.

What's changed you ask?
You've probably forgotten how to insert softsynths. Nothing's changed in SONAR with how softsynths are inserted. Where are your Audio tracks? Got to have them to make sound in SONAR.

You are better off inserting softsynths via the Insert menu then you can ask SONAR to open all the relevant audio tracks as well and make all the necessary connections between MIDI tracks, softsynths and Audio tracks.
BTW: If you are not set to recieve MIDI Omni you need to make sure that your Controller is transmitting on the same channel you have set to receive.

All this is covered in great detail in Tutorial 2 & 8 as cj suggested. Press F1 for help. the links for the tutorials are on the opening page of the help file.

Also, why don't the Dimension or sfz player have selectable banks and/or patches?

I don't understand your question properly.

Dimension and Rapture are not multitimbral synths like the TTS-1, which means each instance can only play one sound at a time. So on those types of softsynths, you select the patch from the program browser in the interface. For each different sound, you have to load a new instance of the softsynth. 

scook
While they are not like TTS-1. Both DimPro and Rapture have multi-timbral modes.
 
From the DimPro help file:
Each of the four Elements can function as a separate instrument, if you want to use a single instance of Dimension as a four-part multi-timbral instrument.
 
From the Rapture help file:
Each of the six Elements can function as a separate instrument, if you want to use a single instance of Rapture as a six-part multi-timbral instrument.

True. I was trying to keep it simple. Dimension and Rapture do have multi-timbral capabilities, but it is not like a General MIDI synth and there are limitations on how they can be used, i.e., they have to be assigned to consecutive channels, you have to load each patch individually, etc. Good point though.