Sonar midi problem

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Shaun Egan

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I'm stuck. Can anyone help please?

I am trying to record several midi tracks, however, I use the metronome to count in (beats) and start recording. When i playback, the starting point of the recording has moved and is now not in time with original count in.

I'm using cakewalk sonar 1.0.2 with a soundblaster Audigy 2 card and a Roland GI-10
 
That shouldn't happen. Your count down should begin and the recording start immediately when it's finished.

What kind of metronome do you have running?
 
Thanks for the help

Hi, thanks for replying.

I'm using the metronome within Sonar.
 
Okay. Now what happens (a little more detail about your process and what occurs)? Does the countdown click off and look like it starts to record fine, but when you go back to it, it's all out of sync?
 
Thanks for hanging on

The metronome click does not miss a beat. It seems fine.

Even if I record another midi track, the recording seems to reset itself back to the very start of the time bar.

I dont get the same pfoblem with the "session drummer" however.

Regards

Shaun
 
Shaun,

I'm sorry, I'm still not understanding clearly whats occuring. What does the "very start of the time bar" mean?

Why, do you think, that the problem doesn't occur w/ session drummer? What's the underlying reason it works?

K-
 
Hi. I must apologise if I am being a bit vague.

I meant the time ruler!

Ok, lets say I set a beat of 100bpm, I arm the midi track, select my instrument and start recording after a count of four beats, ( 1,2,3,4,start)

So when i disarm the track and listen to the playback, the recodind sounds fine, but it starts maybe on beat one or two or three, anything but where i chose.

I have looked at the setting of a saved session drummer file but have not come accross any different settings (OPTIONS, project/global).

If this does not make my problem any clearer, I'll just have to go out and buy Cubase.

Thanks for your time

Shaun
 
Now I get it.

Personally, I never use the countdown feature. My first suggestion is, therefore, to just turn it off.

Instead, just listen to the metronome across a few measures and begin recording on, say, measure 8. Doing this allows some room at the beginning to add instructions/song announcements or whatever purpose you'd like (i.e.-"This is in the key of G at 100bpm 44.1 sample rate 16bit depth).

After I've recorded the initial rough track of the song, I then simply record a four count click track as a lead in and then quit using the metronome entirely.

There must be some setting which is throwing off your countdown. In the metronome tab of the project settings window (Options>Project>Metronome Tab), make sure the countdown setting reads for 1 or 2 measures (versus 1-2 beats).

If the metronome setting reads right, then just do what I suggested above. You don't have to go out and spend a pile of cash on a whole new product over a countdown feature. Just slightly modifying your recording routine should work fine.

Best of luck-

K-
 
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I reached the same conclusion: After beating my head against SONAR's metronome for several hours, I gave up and just started creating my own lead-ins. And if the song happens to start with only MIDI instruments, the problem solves itself...
 
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