HOW TO INSTALL SONAR

SONAR needs to be installed before you can install CakeTalking. Also,

SONAR needs to be opened at least once before you can install
CakeTalking. So, you need to both install SONAR, and open it at least
once.
This document will instruct you how to Install SONAR without sighted
assistance. First there will be an overview of what you are going to be
doing. Then there will be concise step by step instructions. Don't
install SONAR, until you have read the Overview. Then, install SONAR, by
following the Step by Step Instructions.
OVERVIEW.
1. All you will need to install SONAR, is the SONAR Installation CD or
DVD, and your SONAR Serial number. While installing SONAR, the serial
number should be stored externally to the computer that you are
installing SONAR on. That way you can refer to it without moving away
from the current SONAR Installation screen. So have a Braille copy of
it, or have it on some other medium that you can access.
2. On the plastic container of your SONAR CD, there is a sticker with
your Serial Number. It contains letters and numbers. You'll be prompted
to type it, when the Get Registration dialog pops up.
3. After you insert the SONAR Installation CD into your CD ROM drive,
SONAR's auto run feature will bring up an installation screen. This
screen is inaccessible without a mouse. So, instead of keeping this
inaccessible screen open, you will be closing by it pressing ESCAPE.
Then, you will install SONAR by typing a path in the Run dialog.
4. You open the Run dialog by holding down the Windows key, and tapping
the letter R, then letting go. The Run dialog will open. You will be
typing a path that begins with the letter of your CD ROM. This letter of
the CD ROM, is different on different computer systems. So, before
installing SONAR, you should know what your CD ROM's drive letter is.
5. Assuming that your CD ROM's drive letter is the letter D, then type
the following path into the Run dialog exactly as it appears below:
d:\SONAR\Setup
6. When you type the path, and then press ENTER, SONAR's Setup program
will begin.
7. Before SONAR will actually start installing, numerous dialogs will be
opened for you, that request information. Most of the time, all you have
to do is OK the dialogs settings, and thus move to the next one.
8. Most of the SONAR installation dialogs have 3 buttons. The Back, Next
and Cancel buttons. The Next button is always the default button. So,
pressing ENTER in a dialog, will close that dialog, and open the next
one. If you wish to return to the prior dialog, then TAB to the back
button, and press ENTER. If you wish to exit the setup, then press the
cancel button, or just press ESCAPE.
9. During the installation of SONAR, you usually have the option of
quitting the installation, without any problem at all. Just press the
Cancel button. A dialog will then pop up telling you that Setup is not
complete. There will be 2 buttons. The default button is the Resume

button. The other button is the Exit Setup button. So, if you really
wish to exit the installation, TAB to the Exit Setup button, and press
ENTER. You will wait a few minutes while SONAR installs into your
computer.
10. After the main part of the Installation is complete, another 4
dialogs will open asking you various questions that you can mostly say
yes to.
11. Finally, SONAR will start to open automatically. Then there may be 3
dialogs that will test your soundcard.
12. Then, you may get a SONAR dialog asking you to configure your MIDI
devices. You will ESCAPE from this dialog because it wont be necessary
to do this until after you install CakeTalking. You may also get a tip
of the day dialog, and another help dialog. Again, you will escape from
these dialogs. The main thing is to just get into the main SONAR window.
Then when the main SONAR window opens, you move around in it a little,
and then close it. Finally, you reboot the computer, and then install
CakeTalking.
13. JAWS will not automatically read to you all of the information in
the SONAR installation dialogs, unless your JAWS screen echo is set to
all. The default setting for screen echo is set to highlighted. To
change it to ALL, press INSERT+S, until you hear JAWS say "ALL." When
you are done with the installation, remember to return screen echo to
Highlighted. Just press INSERT+S, until you hear JAWS say "Highlighted."
STEP BY STEP PROCEDURE FOR INSTALLING SONAR.
1. With the computer turned on, close all open programs except for JAWS.
2. Open up the computers CD by pushing the CD's open/close button. Put
the SONAR CD in the tray, and close it by pressing the button again.
3. Wait a minute until the SONAR Auto run activates. When it does, an
inaccessible SONAR installation screen will pop up. JAWS will say SONAR
Auto Run. You'll hear music, and a SONAR sound effect. Press ESCAPE to
close this inaccessible screen.
4. Press Windows key + R. The Run dialog will open.
5. Type the letter of your CD ROM drive, then the following.
:\SONAR\Setup
So if your CD drive is the letter D, the path would be
d:\SONAR\Setup
6. Turn your JAWS screen echo to all by pressing INSERT+S, until JAWS
says "ALL".
7. Press ENTER, and the Run dialog will close and SONAR's Welcome dialog
will pop up. It reminds you that all opened programs should be closed
before proceeding. Of course, you should leave JAWS open. Since the
default button is the Next button, press ENTER to continue.
8. The next dialog is the Software License Agreement. Unless you want to
be tortured listening to the terms of the agreement, press ENTER.
9. The next dialog is the Get Registration Information dialog. This has
three edit fields. The first one you will find yourself in is the Name
edit field. TAB once and you will be in the Company edit field. TAB once
again and you will be in the Serial Number edit field. You have to fill
in the Name, and the Serial Number fields. The company field is
optional.
10. When you have finished typing the information, press ENTER. If you
did not type your serial number correctly, then the Invalid Serial

Number dialog will pop up, telling you to type it again. So, you would
press ENTER to return to the Get Registration dialog. Then TAB until you
get to the serial number edit field, and carefully type your serial
number. Then press ENTER.
11. The Select components dialog will open. This contains 6 check boxes
that are checked by default. Each check box refers to a particular part
of the program that is going to be installed. Unless you are an expert,
and know how to do a custom installation, press ENTER to OK the dialog.
12. The Choose Destination Location dialog will open. By default, SONAR
will choose the Program Files folder on your C drive, as the default
drive and folder to install SONAR into. Press ENTER to accept. However,
if you are an expert, you can choose another drive and folder path to
install SONAR into. Just TAB to the Browse button, and press SPACE. The
Select Destination Directory will open. It has an edit field, where you
can type an alternative path for SONAR to install into. Type your path,
then press ENTER to return to the Choose Destination Location dialog.
Then press ENTER to go to the Next installation dialog.
13. The Shared Plug in Folder Destination dialog will open. This just
informs you where MIDI, DXI, and Utilities plug ins will be installed.
Just press ENTER.
14. The Select Program Manager Group dialog will pop up. Press ENTER to
accept the default Program Manager that Windows will add 2 SONAR icons
to.
15. The Start Installation dialog will pop up. This is your last
opportunity to abort the installation by pressing the Cancel button.
Otherwise, press ENTER and the Installation will start.
16. Just sit back and listen as JAWS blabs away. After a few minutes,
the Associate Files With SONAR dialog will pop up.
17. The Associate Files With SONAR dialog contains 9 checkboxes. The
first 3 are checked by default. The other 6 can be checked if you want
SONAR to be the program that open those sort of files by default. TAB to
each one, and check them with the SPACE bar. Then press ENTER.
18. The Installation Complete dialog will open. It contains 3
checkboxes. The launch SONAR, the View Read me, and the add shortcut to
desktop checkboxes. They are all checked. You don't need to view the
Read Me file at this time. So, TAB to the View Read me check box, and
uncheck it with the SPACE bar. Then Press ENTER.
19. The Migrate SONAR preferences dialog will open. This will import
some of the settings that you had in a previous installation of SONAR or
Cakewalk. Press ENTER to say Yes. Or, TAB to the Cancel button, and
press ENTER to accept SONAR's default settings.
20. The Retain SONAR Preferences dialog may open. It contains a list
with paths to Initialization files that SONAR can migrate older Cakewalk
preferences from. If you have Cakewalk installed, then it will migrate
preferences from Cakewalk's Initialization files. Press ENTER to say
yes. Or, TAB to the Cancel button, and press ENTER to accept SONAR's
default settings.
21. The Wave Profiler dialog will open. This will test your sound card.
Press ENTER.
22. Another Wave Profiler dialog will open telling you that your sound
card has been detected, and would you like to use the standard settings.
Say yes, by pressing ENTER.
23. A final Wave Profiler dialog will pop up telling you that your Audio
Hardware has been successfully profiled. Press ENTER.
24. If any of the sound producing devices on your computer are not
compatible with SONAR, the Audio Driver Error dialog will open. It will
contain a list of the incompatible devices. These devices may be things

like your Voice Modem, or a Game Compatible device. The default button
is the Disable button. There's also the Use Anyway button. Press Enter,
to Disable those devices in SONAR.
25. SONAR will open. The Choose MIDI Devices dialog may open. Press
Escape until it closes. It does not need to be configured until after
installing CakeTalking.
26. A Tip of the Day dialog, and another Help dialog may open. Press
Escape to close them. SONAR's main window will then open.
27. You need to move around a little in SONAR's main window with the
right and left arrows. Then press ENTER. An Edit field will probably
open. Then press ESCAPE to exit the edit field.
28. Now you can close SONAR, by pressing ALT+F4. A dialog will pop up
asking you if you want to save changes. Press ESCAPE, and SONAR will
close.
29. Shutdown the computer. Then start it up again.
30. You are now ready to install CakeTalking.
End of How to Install SONAR.
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