Hello everyone.  Just starting out trying to transfer 4 midi tracks from my ES to Sonar.  I am currently running Sonar PE 6 with my Motif ES7 connected via USB to my Toshiba.  I have set Sonar to control Motif in the following way according to a posting from Bad Mister:

OPTIONS > Project
AUDIO as Clock Source
>SYNC option >TRANSMIT MIDI START/STOP and also selected USE START, NEVER CONTINUE’ because I wasn’t sure if I needed to use this as well...my data from Motif is from the ‘song’ mode.

I also set the clock MIDI OUT Port to “Yamaha USB OUT 0-1” and didn’t do anything with the MTC

In MOTIF ES:

Press [UTILITY]
Press [F5] MIDI
Press [SF3] SYNC
Make MIDI SYNC = MIDI
SEQ CTRL = IN (I understand that this controls the transport (stop/start) of the Motif ES and this seems to be where I am having problems.**)
CLOCK OUT = OFF
[SF2] SWITCH
- only recording MIDI tracks at this time so have local set to off
I pressed [STORE] to lock in settings.

**now back to the apparent control issue.  I am able to get the MOTIF to play 1x and record on Sonar.  after I hit “stop” on sonar to halt playing/recording on MOTIF/Sonar respectively, I am unable to get the MOTIF ES to go back to measure 1 for playback either by telling it to do so via Sonar or by hitting buttons.  When I try to get into the utility mode to change control back to MOTIF, I am unable to do so.  Moreover, my Sonar seems to “stop responding” when I try to record this MIDI data.  I have had to hard boot both the computer and the MOTIF in order to clear these problems and get to a point where I can try recording again.  I have tried this several times this evening, changing small things to troubleshoot.  One time I think I had too much clock data being sent because I checked too many boxes initially when setting up controls on SONAR and wonder if I may have done some sort of damage to my MOTIF by overloading it or something like that.  I am pretty new to both SONAR and using the MOTIF to record MIDI and have not worked heavily with a midi recording software program since the 90’s (quickscore professional) ha ha!

I appreciate any help you all might have and thanks in advance for your time.

Ok, I somehow got the tracks to record into Sonar from MOTIF ES without having them both freeze up.  I reinstalled the MOTIF ES driver and after doing that, only the MOTIF froze after recording and not the Sonar.  So, problem is half remedied and I am still unsure why MOTIF ES stays “frozen” after sending the data to record into Sonar.

You are having midi sync troubles. Follow this thread for help in setting the two devices up correctly.http://www.sninety.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=1,3&Board=Cakewalk&Number=222579&Forum=Cakewalk&Words=newguy&Match=Username&Searchpage=2&Limit=25&Old=allposts&Main=222579&Search=true#Post222579