Recording A Stand-Alone Synth - CAKEWALK SONAR User Manual

2. In the Outputs field, make sure the name of your stand-alone synth's MIDI driver is highlighted,
and click OK.
3. Click the Output field of an unused MIDI track to display the output menu.
4. Select the name of the stand-alone synth's MIDI driver.
5. If your stand-alone synth is multi-timbral, change the track's MIDI channel to the same one that
the synth uses for the sound you want to hear.
6. Select a bank and patch on your stand-alone synth, if you haven't already.
7. Record some MIDI data in the MIDI track, or play any MIDI controller that's an input for the
MIDI track.
When you play your MIDI controller or play back the recorded MIDI data, you should hear the stand-
alone synth through your sound card's outputs. If you don't, make sure you're playing in the right range
and that your monitor speakers or headphones are turned up, and that none of the relevant tracks are
muted.

Recording a Stand-alone Synth

There are several ways to record a stand-alone synth:
• You can use the synth's wave capture function, if it has one. See your synth's documentation for a
procedure. Make a note of where the resulting captured Wave file is stored, and then you can
import the file into SONAR by using the File-Import-Audio command.
• You can connect your sound card's outputs to your sound card's inputs, either internally or
externally, depending on your sound card's design. After you do this, you need to arm an audio
track in SONAR and select one of your sound card's wave drivers as an input. Start recording, and
make sure the MIDI track that is routed to the synth is playing back.
• You can use your sound card's wave capture or "what-you-hear" option, if it has one. See the
following procedure.
To Record A Stand-alone Synth with your Sound Card's Wave Capture
Function
1. Pick a destination audio track and set the Input field to Stereo.
Note: If you have more than one sound card installed, select the one that your stand-alone synth
uses as an output.
2. Arm the destination track.
3. Mute or archive any tracks that you don't want to record to the destination track.
4. If SONAR's metronome is set to use any software synth to produce a click, disable the metronome
during recording option in the Project Options dialog box. To do this, select Options-Project to
open the Project Options dialog box, select the Metronome tab and uncheck Recording in the
General section.
5. Open your sound card's mixer device. This is normally done by double-clicking the speaker icon on
the Windows taskbar, or by choosing Start-Programs-Accessories- Multimedia-Volume
Control-Options-Properties.
Note: Some sound cards, such as the SoundBlaster Live, have their own proprietary mixer. If
yours has one, please use it instead.
6. Click Adjust Volume For Recording, and make sure all boxes below are checked.
7. Click OK, and locate the slider marked MIDI, Synth, Mixed Input, or What You Hear. Check the
Select box at the bottom, then close the window.
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