CAKEWALK SONAR - Playing MIDI Tracks through a DXI; Converting Your DXI Tracks to Audio

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Playing MIDI Tracks through a DXi
Now that you have verified that Cakewalk TTS-1 is installed, let’s try some of its
sounds on some pre-recorded MIDI data.
To Play MIDI Tracks through Cakewalk TTS-1
1. Drag Cakewalk TTS-1 property page out of the way for now, and in the first
MIDI track (Guitar 1), click the dropdown arrow in the track’s Output field,
and choose Cakewalk TTS-1 as an output.
Notice that when you choose Cakewalk TTS-1 as a track’s output, the patch
for that track’s MIDI channel in Cakewalk TTS-1 interface changes to the
same one that the track displays.
2. Set the Output fields in all the other MIDI tracks to Cakewalk TTS-1. Note:
When the cursor is in the Output field of one track, pressing the Up or Down
arrow key moves the cursor to the same field in the next track.
3. Let’s insert a patch change in track 1: click the track number of the Guitar 1
track to select it, and move the Now time to the Verse 1 marker by clicking the
Next Marker button once (the Next Marker button is in the Markers
toolbar; if you don’t see it, use the View-Toolbars command and check
Markers).
4. Use the Insert-Patch/Bank Change command to open the Bank/Patch
Change dialog box.
5. In the Bank field, select 15488-Preset Normal 0, and in the Patch field, select
Overdrive Gt, and click OK.
Now you’ve routed your MIDI tracks through Cakewalk TTS-1, and inserted a
patch change. Rewind the project and play it to hear the project through Cakewalk
TTS-1.
Converting Your DXi Tracks to Audio
Once your project sounds the way you want it, it’s extremely easy to convert your
DXi MIDI tracks to either new audio tracks, or Wave, MP3, or other exportable
files.
To Convert Your DXi Tracks to New Audio Tracks
1. Mute all tracks that you don’t want to convert; make sure you don’t mute the
audio track(s) that the DXi is patched into, or the MIDI track(s) that you are
using as a source.
2. Let’s set our MIDI tracks to use different outputs on the TTS-1: in the TTS-1
interface, click the System button to open the System Settings panel, and click
the Option button in System Settings to open the Options dialog.
3. On the Output Assign tab look in the Tone Name column, and click one of the
four Output buttons next to each name in the Tone Name column. This
assigns your individual MIDI instruments to different audio outputs from the
TTS-1. Click the Close button.