RAYZOON

I am using Sonar as well, are you sure you inserted Jamstix as a soft synth? this way Jamstix is automatically in snync with your Sonar project. Also, you do not need to hit record, please play (with a Jamstix standrad song created by the songbuilder wizard for instance) and you are ready to go!

I inserted jamstix using the synth rack ,,as a instrument track, then I use the wizard and build a song . I am completely new to this..then I get it to play but nothing I find will change the tempo. I stop the song and adjust sonar . start again and the tempo remains,, I have tried adjusting while jamstix is playing but with no results...another thing i noticed is that I need to manually change the patterns in the lower left I thought they would move along in the song so, so far I am just getting static patterns that repeat...I am going over the manual but it is not explaining what I see so far

I finally got the tempo to change by stopping with the kit/bar /mixer editer pane , that arrow shaped like a circle. I had been using the transport buttons

Thre round arrow icon is just for previewing while editing a bar in JS by hand. Normal playing should be done from SONAR with the JS arrow icon off. If SONAR does not play an 'empty' project, use Record instead or set a play interval. Later versions of SONAR also allow you to switch off the no-play for empty projects in the SONAR preferences.