Session Drummer 3 recording seperate tracks..

[awaken1]

I recently upgraded to Producer 8.5..It's AWESOME and many thanks to the ones on here who recommended it!

the only thing that's keeping me from recording is an issue with Session Drummer 3 that I can't seem to figure out.

I can activate the sounds through SD3 w/ my dr-670 drum machine, and I have each drum set up in its own audio track, but for some reason, it wont record anything..also is there anyway to convert the midi tracks once recorded to an audio (wave) track, so they can be mixed and edited separately?

any help would be great..

Thanks!

T~

[michaelrb]

Not familiar with session drummer, but if it is a software synth, the midi tracks, once in sonar can be frozen or bounced to audio. Go through the tutorials regarding the use of soft synths.

If you are using a hardware synth, then you need to record it to an audio track. First create a new audio track, arm it to record. Mute all other tracks except the midi tracks you want to record, make sure your metronome setting won't be creating sound, and record your midi to the new audio track. Hope this helps. Good luck.

[Danny Danzi]

Originally Posted by awaken1

I recently upgraded to Producer 8.5..It's AWESOME and many thanks to the ones on here who recommended it!

the only thing that's keeping me from recording is an issue with Session Drummer 3 that I can't seem to figure out.

I can activate the sounds through SD3 w/ my dr-670 drum machine, and I have each drum set up in its own audio track, but for some reason, it wont record anything..also is there anyway to convert the midi tracks once recorded to an audio (wave) track, so they can be mixed and edited separately?

any help would be great..

Thanks!

T~

Awaken, yeah it's simple bro. You can either freeze each one (which is the same as a wave file you just can't work on anything that is frozen in real time without unfreezing it, making changes and refreezing) or hi-lite and click edit, then process and it will bounce to wave. I think it's edit...lol....I just know when I'm in there...wherever you see bounce to track...that's what you want. I usually do the freeze method until I'm really set with everyting, then I bounce each drum track to a separate wave for full control...which also frees up cpu power from the drum module. Hope this helps.

[awaken1]

Thanks brutha Dan! You da man! Gonna go hook that Sh*t up and give er a run through after get some grub. be back with results..later.

I like this statement (info).."then I bounce each drum track to a separate wave for full control"
I am a total control freak/perfectionist with music so that works for me..lol
Which is why it's gonna take me a while to get something on here to bash..

Thanks again bro! truly appriciate all the help you give everyone here!

[Danny Danzi]

Thanks awaken, you're very welcome. Make sure you let me know how this works for you. There is another method I can share with you since you're a control freak like me....but I warn you, it ain't gonna be pretty and you're gonna be left with about 40 more tracks than usual.....but man, it's sooo sweet to have that control!!! LOL!! If you're interested, let me know and I'll hook you up with it.