Midi with Sonar 5

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I recently bought a M-audio Uno midi to usb cable to hook up my roland rs-9 keyboard to the computer so that i could use it as a midi controller. Sonar recognizes the new midi in and out but i cant figure out how to make it control my vst synths that i have downloaded. They only seem to come up under audio channels anyways not under midi channels....i know it needs to be linked somehow just cant remember how to do (havent done it in 2 years and it was with DP before)

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First off, have you run the vst adapter? You need to do that before anything else.

Then follow these steps and it should be easy:

If sonar already recognizes the midi in out:

1. look for an icon that says "dxi" on your toolbar for sonar. If its not there, look under view/toolbars and start clicking everything until you see a little "dxi" icon show up.

2. click on the icon, or some equivalent in one of the startup menus.

3. The "synth rack" should have just popped up. One of the buttons on this "rack" is you "dxi synth options". click on it.

4. some options pop up. You want to check "midi source track" and "first synth output". click ok.

5. another one of the buttons in the rack is your vst's. Find it, click it, and choose whatever synth you want. Your "dxi synth options" might pop up again. just make sure the appropriate tracks are checked and hit ok.

6. You have just created a linked midi and audio track. Arm the record on the midi track and you should get some sound comming from you monitors.

hope this helps, :) I have Sonar 3. But I have used five and the interface is basically the same.
 
ill give this a try tonight and see if it works! Thanks for taking the time to write all that up!
 
If I understand what you're asking correctly (I may not) Then I think you just need to set the output of the midi track you are using to the synth that you are using. (it will be on an audio track) that should let that midi track control your vsts. This is the old way of doing this, but I think there's a newer way through the synth rack though I havent bothered to learn as I've been doing it like this forever. I hope that helps. If not then please disregard.
 
Well guys i got it working somehow last night...kinda found an article on midi/vst in the manual that said to add a soft synth then make sure midi output is checked or somethign along that lines.... but i feel like there is a lag though in the monitoring from when i play on the keyboard....havent recorded with it yet just played around with some of the synths...how do i get rid of this, any idea....
 
Janesaid2me said:
Well guys i got it working somehow last night...kinda found an article on midi/vst in the manual that said to add a soft synth then make sure midi output is checked or somethign along that lines.... but i feel like there is a lag though in the monitoring from when i play on the keyboard....havent recorded with it yet just played around with some of the synths...how do i get rid of this, any idea....
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make sure you're using aiso drivers, turn the latency down in sonar untill you get distortion, and put more ram in your DAW
 
Ahhh ok i think its the aiso drivers thing cause i was using my motu...ill give it a try sometime soon and get back to ya..thanks!
 
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