Sonar 8 Issues

[MostRequested]

Hello RR,

I'm running into a few issues with Sonar 8, especially with Midi.

I connected everything as instructed, I have a Korg Triton Midi IN, going into my Audio Inteface OUT, and my Korg Triton Midi OUT going into IN onto my Audio Interface. (Emu1616m)

1. Sonar 8 will not play my sounds on my keyboard for whatever reason. I just cannot figure it out. I create a midi track, and it plays nothing. It does play "certain" sounds in Sonar Soundbank.

2. Midi has some major latency issues. I have a really good computer, intel quadcore, 4 gigs of ram, 1 terabyte of memory, what could be the reason?

3. Step Sequencer doesn't play back. When I set my drum patterns it's just silence.

4. I cannot convert midi into audio as midi will not show up on volume control.

[Electriclight]

Have yyou used MIDI in the past? I mean I don't want to ask the most obvious questions if you are an experienced user.. On the other hand if this is your first experience there are lots of possibilites...

Forget about sound. When you record MIDI are you seeing activity and seeing data being recorded? If not then I would probably recommend reloading the drivers.

[j03]

It sounds like you have everything wired up correctly. But you didnt really say what you are trying to do.

From what you posted I assume you are only trying to use sonar to record the midi data from the Triton on to Sonar and then play that data back to the Triton?

Are you seeing the midi being recorded in sonar?

Make sure the track you are recording on in Sonar has its midi IN and OUT going to your interface and not some internal soundcard or someting.

You also said that you are haveing serious latency issues. Midi should really not have any latency issues. Not sure whats going on there.

[MostRequested]

Today is a really weird day...My comp was showing I have 0 midi signal and out of no where the sounds started coming out. So I got the midi part down. I don't have much problem with sonar now except the fact that the step sequencer won't play anything...

I fixed the lag problem by installing asio4, and the lag was magically gone.

I still have problem converting midi to audio track by track. I can export the track as WAV file but it mixes down the entire song.

I'm a pretty new user to SONAR 8. I used mixcraft and FL for everything in the past and it was so easy to use. Sonar is a different animal to me.

[brandondrury]

Just in case Getting Started With Midi Sequencing

Brandon

[michaelrb]

If you are converting midi and are using a hardware synth for audio, you must create an audio track, set that to record, mute all the midi tracks except for the one you want to convert to audio, and then record your midi data to audio. You have to to this individually for each midi track you want to convert if you are using hardware synths. Also be sure to turn your metronome settings off for recording or this will also record to your new audio track.

If you are using soft synths, then you have to select both the midi and audio tracks that your soft synth uses and then bounce or freeze this to a new audio track. Hope this helps.

Exporting will not accomplish what you are trying to do. However, in Sonar you can choose to export the entire mix, tracks, buses, or main outputs. The options for this are in a drop down menu under "source category" from the export audio window.

[MostRequested]

Originally Posted by michaelrb

If you are converting midi and are using a hardware synth for audio, you must create an audio track, set that to record, mute all the midi tracks except for the one you want to convert to audio, and then record your midi data to audio. You have to to this individually for each midi track you want to convert if you are using hardware synths. Also be sure to turn your metronome settings off for recording or this will also record to your new audio track.

If you are using soft synths, then you have to select both the midi and audio tracks that your soft synth uses and then bounce or freeze this to a new audio track. Hope this helps.

Exporting will not accomplish what you are trying to do. However, in Sonar you can choose to export the entire mix, tracks, buses, or main outputs. The options for this are in a drop down menu under "source category" from the export audio window.

thanks! ill try this!