Roland SCWS05 User Manual

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SonicCell

Workshop

Expandable Synthesizer Module
and Audio Interface

Using SonicCell with Logic Pro

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About the Workshop Booklets

Understanding the Symbols in This Booklet

Roland’s SonicCell is designed for modern musicians. Using USB, It adds a
huge set of sounds to your digital audio workstation (or “DAW”) without
adding to your computer’s workload. It’s also an audio interface that can get
signals from mics, instruments, or other devices to DAW tracks for recording.
SonicCell’s Editor software allows you to program SonicCell from within your
DAW. Onstage, its compact size also makes SonicCell the ideal companion
for a laptop DAW, letting you perform and sing along with recorded tracks.
Or use it to play back sequences and audio files from a USB memory stick.

Each SonicCell Workshop booklet focuses on one SonicCell topic, and is
intended as a companion to the SonicCell Owner’s Manual. This booklet
requires SonicCell O.S. Version 1.11 or higher. You can download the latest
SonicCell O.S. for free from www.RolandUS.com.

About This Booklet

This booklet contains instructions for using SonicCell with Apple’s Logic Pro

8. (Much of what we cover also applies to Logic Pro 7.) First we’ll discuss
recording MIDI tracks in Logic Pro using SonicCell’s synth sounds. Next, we’ll
talk about SonicCell as as an audio interface, telling you how to record both
live audio and SonicCell’s synth sounds as audio tracks in Logic Pro.

Throughout this booklet, you’ll come across information that deserves
special attention—that’s the reason it’s labeled with one of the following
symbols.

A note is something that adds information about the topic at hand.

A tip offers suggestions for using the feature being discussed.

Warnings contain important information that can help you avoid
possible damage to your equipment, your data, or yourself.

Configuring Logic Pro to Work With SonicCell

Setting Up Logic Pro for SonicCell Audio

To configure Logic Pro so it’s using SonicCell for its inputs and outputs:

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Click and hold down the Preferences button
in the Arrange window tool bar, and select

Audio... to open the Core Audio tab of the

Preferences window. (If you prefer, you can do
the same thing from the Logic Pro menu.)

We’ll assume you’ve installed and know how to operate Logic Pro—
otherwise, consult Logic Pro’s built-in documentation in its Help menu. We’ll
also assume you’ve read the Using SonicCell with a DAW and Using SonicCell
as an Audio Interface Workshop booklets, that SonicCell and your computer
are hooked up and turned on, and that you’re listening through SonicCell.

If this isn’t the pane
you see, click the
Core Audio tab.

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If the Device popup menu doesn’t already show “Roland SonicCell 2
[SonicCell’s current sample rate], select Roland SonicCell [SonicCell’s

current sample rate] from the menu.

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Click Apply Changes—Logic Pro configures itself to use SonicCell as
its audio interface.

To learn how to check and/or change SonicCell’s sample rate, see the
Using SonicCell with a DAW Workshop booklet.

Creating a SonicCell Editor Track

Turn Off Software Monitoring

Make sure 4 Software Monitoring is unchecked.

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Close the Preferences window.

As we said in the Using SonicCell with a DAW and the Using SonicCell as
an Audio Interface Workshop booklets, you can listen through Logic Pro

if you want to hear its effects as you record. Since you may encounter
latency, though, we recommend listening directly through SonicCell.

If you do decide to listen through Logic Pro, once you’ve check-marked
Software Monitoring, you can hear your live input even before arming a
track for recording by lighting the track’s Input (I) button.

Setting the Sample Rate

Your Logic Pro project must be operating at the same sampling rate as
SonicCell to capture its audio. To change a project sample’s rate:

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Click and hold down the Settings button in the
Arrange window tool bar, and select Audio... to
open the Project Settings window. (If you prefer,
you can do the same thing from the File menu’s
Project Settings sub-menu.)

Open the project you want to work on, or create a new one.1

Click the + button above the track list to open the New Tracks sheet.2

3 Set the window’s parameters to create one new software instrument,

set Output to No Output, and uncheck Open Library. When you’re
done, the New Tracks sheet should look like this:

Click Create—the new software instrument track appears in the 4
Arrange window, selected by Logic Pro.

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In the Inspector pane to the left, click and hold on the
first I/O slot and select the stereo SonicCell Editor AU
plug-in from the AU Instruments > Roland submenu.

The SonicCell Editor opens and retrieves SonicCell’s
current settings.

Set the Sample Rate popup menu’s value to match SonicCell’s sample 2
rate.

Changes you make to SonicCell using the Editor affect SonicCell’s
current performance, or—if you’re in Patch mode—its current patch.

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