I'm recording, but not getting playback!

[Bullet Days]

ok, so i'm using project5 to record a basic drum track onto sonar 2. i can hear the drums, and i can see that it's recording onto a midi track in sonar (i see the midi "dots"). but when i play back, i don't hear anything. i have both midi ins and outs active (or else the program would warn me about not having either/or). i've tried different combos of inputs and outputs, and even messed with the channels (don't know what good that would do, so i pretty much leave it on "midi omni"). any ideas on why playback isn't occuring? i wanna get this straightened out before i start using reason 2. thanks!

 

[TexRoadkill]

Are you assinging the tracks to a softsynth to play them?

 

[Bullet Days]

tex,

i'm not exactly sure by what you mean. i figured that if it records, it MUST play back, right? about the only thing i can mess with are the inputs and outputs of the sonar midi track, and none of the combinations i've tried work. i haven't tried messing with all 16 channels though. i'm only messing with the controls in Sonar, not Project5.

what's funny is that when load up my gigastudio demo and record a piano track, i can hear the playback.

 

[AlChuck]

In order for the MIDI track in SONAR to play, you have to route it to a MIDI synth.

The Project5 synths surely must appear in your DXi list. Read the documentation on using DXi in the SONAR Help system...

 

[TexRoadkill]

i figured that if it records, it MUST play back, right?

Only when you record audio files. Midi files need a hardware or software synth to actually make the sounds.