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jfled
Total Posts: 88
Joined 08-13-2007 status: Experienced |
How do you convert the recorded MIDI track in Sonar to an audio track and then use that audio track with other MIDI tracks? |
mbunkerusa
Total Posts: 71
Joined 02-03-2006 status: Experienced |
jfied,
Then you can record the audio from the synth back into Sonar into its own track(s) at the same time.
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beechit
Total Posts: 61
Joined 01-28-2010 status: Experienced |
You guys may already know about this but I thought i’d share it with whoever is interested...... As you’ve probably found out already, Sonar has no level activation recording in audio track mode, so it can be a painful process dragging and shifting multiple audio tracks to keep them all in sync. Well, here’s a trick I learnt whilst trying to record separate audio tracks into Sonar from an external synth/sequencer and keeping everything synced perfectly.
Here was my scenario:
Obviously for this to work you’ll need to feed the sound source into the PC’s soundcard to record audio and the MIDI in/out both need to be connected to PC. First, on the synth/sequencer/song, insert 1 empty bar on all tracks at the beginning of the song. (so the song starts on bar 2 not bar 1 - I used ‘insert all’ method from an empty bar no. 999) You need to do this otherwise the PC/Sonar midi trigger doesn’t have enough time to sync with the synth and you’ll get a ‘32 triplets’ effect at the beginning of your audio track.
1. Set your Sonar to be master time/clock controller and leave tempo at 120bpm.
Repeat the above process for each track and add as you please…
I’m sorry if the setup info is a little scarce but it’s been a while since I set this up. I use a saved song template since then on so I haven’t had to go back into the settings.
Hope this helps someone out there...... PS. I use the Motif XS sequencer now and do a similar kind of thing, OK it’s more time consuming than using the Mlan16e2 firewire card, but it’s also more rewarding and the outcome is much more precise as you spend more time tweaking each track, before and after it’s been recorded. Plus you hear things you wouldn’t normally notice if all the tracks were playing/recording all at once,e.g. bum notes etc… Good luck |