Tell me again how to convert a midi track into audio

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I was able to do this in Cakewalk 9 but it' snot working in SONAR Home 4.

I created a simple but lengthy midi drum track and now I want to record it as audio to another track. I'm sending the midi output to my Soundblaster Card. For the audio track I'm supposed to select the SB as the input but only my Aark24 card shows up as options.

I tried changing from ASIO driver mode to WDM but then my soundcards are suddenly mono, not stereo.

I'm way confused. How I do this?
 
Hi, I usually use a spare input and a spare output on my Delta 1010lt. I send midi out via say track 4 and hardwire 4 output to 4 input then I set an audio track in Sonar and set it to record on new audio track with input 4. Record the track like you would any outboard instrument. Hope this helps.

specsGa
 
Just export the midi as a wav or mp3 and then import it into a new session, I dunno if its that simple with sonar 4 but thats what I do for sonar 6
 
Replies appreciated. I was able to get past the problem by switching to WDM driver mode, running the wave profiler, and tweaking some latency settings. It still warns me that my SB card does not support stereo. It's supposed to be stereo in/stereo out but, for whatever reason, SONAR sees it as 1 input and 3 outputs. Wtf is that about?

Even so, it let me record the midi track to an audio track. Playback sounds nothing like the midi track - it was horrible. But I switched back to the ASIO driver and it sounds fine thru the Aark card. Wierd.
 
powellman said:
Just export the midi as a wav or mp3 and then import it into a new session, I dunno if its that simple with sonar 4 but thats what I do for sonar 6
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You can't export midi. It has to be converted to audio first before it can be exported.

It will work if you are using a DXi/VSTi as your synthesizer, since that does the midi to audio conversion on the fly. However, if you are using a DXi, it really isn't necessary to convert the midi to audio.
 
If you have cakewalk tts-1 Dxi, then use that instead of your soundblaster card, you wil then be able to export it via file-export-audio

Thierry
 
Albertm said:
Won't a simple Bouce to Track do it?
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Depends on the midi sound source. Bounce to track won't work if the synthesizer is a sound card or external module. In those cases it needs to be recorded.

Bounce to track will work with DXi - but as noted above, there is really no need to convert a DXi source, except possibly to conserve resources.

Personally I like to leave DXi/MIDI tracks intact so they can still be tweaked as the project develops. Once you convert to audio, it is locked in. (Of course, you can still archive and unarchive the MIDI - but that's a bit tedious.)
 
W/ Sonar 6.2, you click on the midi track, "bounce to tracks"
and bada bing!
(Thank you Cakewalk!)

Kirk
 
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