newbie w/a few q's

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ralpheo

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Hi! I'm really new to this, so please bear with me.
My girlfriend and I just bought an E-mu 1616, which came with Sonar LE, among some other software. I've screwed around with demos of other versions of Cakewalk before, so I figure I'll stick with it.
:confused: Anyway, why do my view meters show what I'm playing is clipping, when I can barely hear my guitar let alone the effects I've put on the input from the 1616 (trim, compression, eq before the send, distortion and chorus/reverb after)? I barely have the input volume cracked on the outboard mixer (very rarely does the meter show any discernible signal strength).
Also does anybody know where to go to find the 'Session Drummer' that the help file refers to? I went to Cakewalk's site and could find no mention of it. Is it available in Sonar LE, or would I have to upgrade?

Thanks,

ralpheo

P.S. Sorry to ramble! :o
 
Sonar LE is supposed to be one of the more powerful oem's so I think you'll be happy for a while.

There's probably something wrong in your monitoring chain. There's a few ways to monitor you signal. You might want to check input monitoring in the Sonar helpfile especially the part with Input Echo button. Be careful...

The patchmix (I guess that's what the 1616 uses) lets you monitor the signal dry before Sonar - so that's another option...

The session drummmer is a midifx. You can insert it in an fx-bin for a miditrack. Should be there with a right click on the mouse. I don't know if it's in LE.
 
Ok, cool. So basically go barebones in the patchmix (just trim) and use Sonar's fx box to get my sound? But won't that mean that those effects will be a permanent part of the sound? I would like to have the wave file dry, so that I can tweak it later. Any way I'm going to go back through my chain to figure out what I've missed.
thanks!
 
ralpheo said:
Ok, cool. So basically go barebones in the patchmix (just trim) and use Sonar's fx box to get my sound? But won't that mean that those effects will be a permanent part of the sound? I would like to have the wave file dry, so that I can tweak it later. Any way I'm going to go back through my chain to figure out what I've missed.
thanks!
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The fx in the fx bin doesn't get printed - so shouldn't be any worries. I've got no opinion if you should use the fx in the patchmix inline. They're pretty cool, as is the PowerFX-gadget.

I'ts a good bet you'll get sound if you press the input echo button. But careful so it's not to loud when you do it. That's how I normally prefer my monitoring. But the little monitor in the lower right part of the patchmix comes in handy sometimes and when working with singers I have an external monitor chain with its own (external) fx.
 
Thanks I appreciate your help. Now I have to actually go do something instead of looking at it and scratching my head. lol
 
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