Cakewalk Midi Troubles

[SalJustSal]

My friend and I are trying to get a multi-track song to record on Sonar from his Yamaha Motif. We're trying to do this by midi triggering Sonar (slave) using his Motif (master), syncing and recording one track at a time.

We've ran into two problems.

1) First when we were recording, the audio in the monitors were distorted. However when we listened back to what we recorded, it sounded fine.

2) This is the strange one. The sound played back from what we recorded didn't match the visual waveform, it was as if it was an echo but about 5-10 seconds later. However, the end point of the song followed the visual waveform and not what was heard. So this chopped off the end of what was heard (because the "echo" was about 5-10 seconds behind).

Hope this isn't too confusing. #1 is annoying, but we can live with it for now, but #2 sucks. I have a feeling, they are tied. I have a feeling the answer resides in echo settings, but we tried playing with them with no results.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Jeyan]

Goto Options->Audio and look for input monitoring, I think your input monitoring in Cakewalk is enabled with one of your sound card's driver, you don't really need that, if any Channel is highlighted, remove that. Probably this should be the trouble. Also disable the metronome, your first problem could (not neccesarily) be that.

 

[SalJustSal]

Metronome was off, but shouldn't matter.

Input monitoring was on, which may be part of the problem for #1, but I don't think it would effect #2. I was only recording what was coming in, and wasn't recording the monitoring. The piece recorded fine but the visual display and end point seemed to be out of sync with the audio component. If the problem was from input monitoring, the video and audio components would still be in sync on playback.