Cakewalk Name Support

Sonar/Cakewalk Name Support

Using Midi Quest it is easy to export entire banks of names directly into Cakewalk. Using this feature, you can save a lot of time as it is no longer necessary to manually type in all of the names from a custom bank of patches. All you need to do is save a Midi Quest bank in .INS format and import this file into Cakewalk.

Option 1

You have two options. The first option is saving the Bank of names directly into Cakewalk's MASTER.INS file. In this case, once the names are entered, you must create the instrument yourself and link the names to the instrument. At the start of this procedure, Cakewalk must be shut down. The instructions are as follows:

1.	load the bank or set from the disk or instrument whose names you wish to export to Cakewalk

2.	right click in the bank and from the pop-up menu choose Export/Bank Names As/Sonar-Cakewalk .INS

3.	or right click in the set and from the pop-up menu choose Export/Bank Names As/Sonar-Cakewalk .INS

4.	use the file selector to move to the Sonar or Cakewalk folder (see discussion below for the location of this file)

5.	double click on the MASTER.INS file

6.	the program will ADD the Bank's Patch Names into the file. It will NOT overwrite any other information

7.	you now need to quit Cakewalk or Sonar and rerun it then create an Instrument using the saved bank

It is important to note, that after adding the bank(s) of names, you must create the instrument yourself and associate the names with the instrument yourself. If you save names from a Set in Midi Quest, this information will be created for you automatically - you can stop here - you're done! All you need to do is assign the instrument to MIDI Port/Channel combinations.

9.	To create an instrument and assign the bank of names in Cakewalk v9 or Sonar, run the application

10.	Choose Options/Instrument from the Cakewalk/Sonar menus

11.	Click on Define... in the "Assign Instruments" dialog

12.	In the "Define Instruments and Names" dialog right click on "Instruments" in the left column

13.	Choose "Add Instrument" from the pop-up menus

14.	Name the new instrument whatever you want

15.	Double click on the new instrument to expand it

16.	In the right column, expand the "Patch Names" list

17.	Find the new bank(s) you just saved to the MASTER.INS file

18.	the name is the Midi Quest file name with the SysEx type appended

eg. MyM1Bank.PBk - Korg M1 Patch Bank

19.	Drag this bank and drop it on "Patch Names for Bank" of the newly created instrument

20.	Replace the default GM bank

21.	Repeat this for as many banks as you wish

22.	Click on Close

23.	In the "Assign Instruments" dialog, assign the instrument to a port and MIDI channel

This option will work with any version of Cakewalk, v3 through v9, or any version of Sonar

Option 2

This alternative will work in Cakewalk v9 or Sonar and there is no need to shut down the application to perform the function. In this case, you create a separate .INS file on disk, this file is then manually or automatically integrated into the MASTER.INS file. The instructions are as follows:

1.	load the bank or set from the disk or instrument whose names you wish to export to Cakewalk

2.	right click in the bank and from the pop-up menu choose Export/Bank Names As/Sonar-Cakewalk .INS or

3.	or right click in the set and from the pop-up menu choose Export/Bank Names As/Sonar-Cakewalk .INS

4.	use the file selector to save the file to disk using a name of your choice (except Master.ins)

5.	once the file is saved, for older versions of Cakewalk you must use a text editor to integrate the file into the MASTER.INS file (Cakewalk must not be running)

6.	there should be instructions in the Cakewalk manual for accomplishing this

7.	If you have a copy of Cakewalk v9.0 or Sonar, you can automatically create an instrument for you. In Cakewalk or Sonar, follow these steps:

8.	Choose Options/Instruments

9.	Click the Define button in the Assign Instruments dialog

10.	Click the Import... button in the Define Instruments and Names dialog

11.	Select the .ins file you just created in Midi Quest and load the instrument

That's it. You're done and you've saved a load of time.

Master.ins Location

For very early versions of Cakewalk and Sonar, the Master.Ins file is found in the same folder as the program .exe file.

When Microsoft specified that the Program Files area of the hard drive needed to contain only read-only files, the Master.ins file was moved to a new location. It is now found at:

c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Cakewalk\<application name>

In many versions of Sonar, there is a link file in the Cakewalk/Sonar application folder which will go directly to this folder when double clicked.

Available in:

Midi Quest Pro
Midi Quest
Midi Quest Essentials
Midi Quest one