MIDI & Sonar & Roland Juno Gi

[libertad]

I realize the world of MIDI is vast and complicated. However, I am stuck at one little problem.

I use Sonar Studio DAW, a brand new Roland Juno Gi and a USB cable for the MIDI connection.

All I am looking to do is record electronic drums played by hand (from the Juno Gi) onto Sonar in a MIDI track. But I want to use a specific Juno drum sound, not a plug-in drum sound from Sonar. That way I can then quantize the drums and make them perfect.

However, I am stuck. I cannot figure out how to get a sound through MIDI, let alone record a track.

Anyone familiar with Sonar and/or Roland Juno Gi that could help me get pass this simple basic step into the world of MIDI?

It would be greatly appreciated and I'd return the favor with advice on something else if possible.

Thanks,
libertad

 

[SysExJohn]

The simple answer is that MIDI is not sound. It's about messages that trigger sounds in a sound module or synthesiser or drum module.

You have to record sounds as audio files.

SysExJohn.

 

[BentRabbit]

Record the Midi track into Sonar... Do your quantizing and then play back the midi drum track using the Juno as your synth (send the Midi signal out of Sonar back to the Juno). Dial in the drum sound you like, and run from the Line out's on the Juno back to the inputs of your DAW's sound card...

Piece-o-cake(walk)

 

[libertad]

Thanks for the tips guys. Spent about an hour and I finally got it working. Pretty much by doing what you suggested, BentRabbit. However, I don't really know what I was doing when messing with the settings. For example, there's a lot of channel buttons to set on both Sonar and the keyboard itself. I guess trial and error will help along with reading up on it. But at least I got sound! That's enough to celebrate.