Sonar 4 Drum Map..Tracks....

[Atom Bomb]

Apparently I'm Way behind the times here. Im on Sonar4.

I'd like to use the drum mapper if at all possible. As of now i use fruity loops to create my drum tracks and import the wav file into sonar.

But I have a hunch that It might be easier to just make the drum track within sonar.

I have no clue how to do this, and judging from what i just went thru i need a MIDI output? I don't understand Midi that much but i do know i don't have any midi instruments.

So can someone please explain to me what i could do from here. Please.

 

[mikemorgan]

Sonar 4 comes with a softsynth called Session Drummer. Look in the help files on initializing that feature, and as always, read the manual.

 

[mikemorgan]

OR.....If you are comfortable working with Fruity loops and importing them into Cakewalk, you could also just convert those wave files into Groove Clips.

 

[Atom Bomb]

OR.....If you are comfortable working with Fruity loops and importing them into Cakewalk, you could also just convert those wave files into Groove Clips.

what would be the benefit of converting it to a groove clip?

 

[mikemorgan]

Groove clips are "Acid-ised" files (so-called because Sonic Foundry Acid practically invented the process). A groove clip can easily be dragged, extended, chopped and time-pitched within a track. Look at the .wrk files that come with Sonar. All of these clips are groove clips. You can change the tempo of the song, and they change too!

Let's say your Fruity drum session was rendered at 120 bpm and you'd like you use the same drum map at 128 in Sonar.....or the short saxophone solo is in F and you'd like to use the key of G. A groove clip handles both problems.