Post by freeway on Mar 30, 2013 13:51:16 GMT
Hi guys 
I covered this proccess in Cakewalk Pro Audio a while back but a few of you would like to know how its done in Sonar . I tried this in Sonar Home Studio 7 but I'm sure it should work in all Sonar editions.
Here's what I done .
First off make sure Sonar is assigned to open your midis (right click on midi/properties/general/and where it says open with you should have Sonar in there if not just click and change it.
Open your midi in Sonar Insert /Audio Track you'll see the Audio Track inserted below the midi tracks. Click on your Audio Track it should change colour but it'll be a diff one then the midi tracks.
Now click the record button on that track it should change colour (mine's orange). Before hitting the main recording button play the midi as normal and see if you have some activity in your Audio Track if yes then your ready to go if not we can return to this part.
When your ready hit the main record button on the top making sure that your Audio track is also set to record as before.
When finished recording hit the stop button or it'll still be recording until the small hours ;D
Make sure everything is rewound to the start before the conversion otherwise you'll only get a partial or no conversion.
Next we need to mute all the midi trax you'll see the "m" alongside the rec button. Highlight the Audio track hit File /Export /Audio and save to wave mp3 etc. make sure you save it to a location you'll find easy enough like "Desktop" or Music etc.
So thats it basically as I said earlier if your getting no sound into Sonar this obviously won't work so we can revisit if there's any probs.
Hope this is of some help to anyone and any questions Ill do my best to help.
Rgds
Barry
I covered this proccess in Cakewalk Pro Audio a while back but a few of you would like to know how its done in Sonar . I tried this in Sonar Home Studio 7 but I'm sure it should work in all Sonar editions.
Here's what I done .
First off make sure Sonar is assigned to open your midis (right click on midi/properties/general/and where it says open with you should have Sonar in there if not just click and change it.
Open your midi in Sonar Insert /Audio Track you'll see the Audio Track inserted below the midi tracks. Click on your Audio Track it should change colour but it'll be a diff one then the midi tracks.
Now click the record button on that track it should change colour (mine's orange). Before hitting the main recording button play the midi as normal and see if you have some activity in your Audio Track if yes then your ready to go if not we can return to this part.
When your ready hit the main record button on the top making sure that your Audio track is also set to record as before.
When finished recording hit the stop button or it'll still be recording until the small hours ;D
Make sure everything is rewound to the start before the conversion otherwise you'll only get a partial or no conversion.
Next we need to mute all the midi trax you'll see the "m" alongside the rec button. Highlight the Audio track hit File /Export /Audio and save to wave mp3 etc. make sure you save it to a location you'll find easy enough like "Desktop" or Music etc.
So thats it basically as I said earlier if your getting no sound into Sonar this obviously won't work so we can revisit if there's any probs.
Hope this is of some help to anyone and any questions Ill do my best to help.
Rgds
Barry
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Hi Barry,excellent advice on the Wav to Mp3 using cakewalk Sonar discussion,our John G also set me off in the right direction when I was getting into this process, it really had me tearing my hair out at that time, ( come to think about it I didn't actually have a lot to tear out 
...nothing has changed ),the Sonar cakewalk programme I am using for some reason doesn't have this facility to make the Wav to Mp3 changes,I did go through your instructions but a message came up telling me that I would have to unlock I think it was called an encoder or get another one.It doesn't bother me as John put me onto a different Wav to mp3 converter called RAZORLAME which I find works great,you can do the conversion in batches as well,John assured me that it is the one he uses himself.The other thing I do myself before recording the midi to wav in the same way that you have described is to check that the metronome function is turned off ( or unticked ) you can get at it by going to the tool bar at the top of the screen by clicking Options/Project/Metronome,if you record with it on you will have a regular tick tick all of the way through your recording process which will come through on the finished conversion.Hope this bit of info is of use to the member.
nothing in the meter, I'll take a couple of snapshots and send to you see if you can spot anything