Several of us (lots?) use SONAR.

What version of 7? Are you up-to-date with patches? I don't remember version 7 right now; we're up to 8.5 at the moment.

I would have started where you did, in Options, MIDI Devices. Then I would go to Options, Instruments and make sure each of the first 16 channels is assigned to your preferred MIDI device.

Then go to the Track View and find the MIDI tracks, and examine the Channel, Bank and Patch settings. Also, of course, be sure the M(ute) wasn't set on the track(s).

Then I would look at the MIDI playback buffers (Global Options, MIDI, dialog box for Playback).

Then if it still didn't work, I would restart everything - the sound module, the computer, everything.

Has your master.ins recently changed?


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