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Recording Music from a MIDI Instrument
Once you have set your tempo and metronome, and armed one or more tracks, you
are ready to start recording.
To Record MIDI
1. Set the Now time to the point in the project where you want to start recording.
2. Click , press r, or choose Transport-Record. If your metronome count-in is
turned on, it will play the count-in.
3. Play or perform the material you want to record. As you record, SONAR
displays a clip containing the new material in the Clips pane (unless you’ve
turned off this option on the General tab of the Global Options dialog—
Options-Global command).
4. Click , press the Spacebar, or choose Transport-Stop to stop recording.
To listen to the new material, set the Now time to the start of the clip and press
the Spacebar or click . If you’re not happy with the recording, use Edit-Undo
or press Ctrl+Z to erase the new material.
When you stop recording, if you do not see a new clip in the Clips pane, you may
have a problem with MIDI input. See Appendix A: Troubleshooting for more
information.
Recording Audio
Before you record audio, you should check your input levels. If the levels are too
low, you may end up with too much hiss and background noise in your recording. If
the levels are too high, your recording will be inaccurate or distorted. To check
your audio levels, use the audio meters in the either the Track view or Console
view. To adjust the input levels, you must use your sound card’s software mixer
program (or the Windows 2000 or XP mixer) or an external hardware mixer for
certain sound cards.
The audio meters indicate the volume at which the audio will be recorded, in units
called decibels (dB). The meter values range from -INF (silent) to 0dB (maximum
volume). You can change many options in the way SONAR’s meters display data:
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