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make sure you’re playing in the right range and that your monitor speakers or
headphones are turned up, and that none of the relevant tracks are muted.
Recording a Stand-alone Synth
There are several ways to record a stand-alone synth:
• You can use the synth’s wave capture function, if it has one. See your synth’s
documentation for a procedure. Make a note of where the resulting captured
Wave file is stored, and then you can import the file into SONAR by using the
File-Import-Audio command.
• You can connect your sound card’s outputs to your sound card’s inputs, either
internally or externally, depending on your sound card’s design. After you do
this, you need to arm an audio track in SONAR and select one of your sound
card’s wave drivers as an input. Start recording, and make sure the MIDI
track that is routed to the synth is playing back.
• You can use your sound card’s wave capture or “what-you-hear” option, if it
has one. See the following procedure.
To Record A Stand-alone Synth with your Sound Card’s Wave
Capture Function
1. Pick a destination audio track and set the Input field to Stereo.
Note: If you have more than one sound card installed, select the one that your
stand-alone synth uses as an output.
2. Arm the destination track.
3. Mute or archive any tracks that you don’t want to record to the destination
track.
4. If SONAR’s metronome is set to use any software synth to produce a click,
disable the metronome during recording option in the Project Options dialog
box. To do this, select Options-Project to open the Project Options dialog box,
select the Metronome tab and uncheck Recording in the General section.
5. Open your sound card's mixer device. This is normally done by double-clicking
the speaker icon on the Windows taskbar, or by choosing Start-Programs-
Accessories- Multimedia-Volume Control-Options-Properties.
Note: Some sound cards, such as the SoundBlaster Live, have their own
proprietary mixer. If yours has one, please use it instead.
6. Click Adjust Volume For Recording, and make sure all boxes below are
checked.
7. Click OK, and locate the slider marked MIDI, Synth, Mixed Input, or What
You Hear. Check the Select box at the bottom, then close the window.
8. In SONAR, click the Record button.
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