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Stand-alone synths
Software instruments
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 .
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 recording
metronome. To do so, click the Record Metronome button in the Control Bar’s Transport
module, or go to Edit > Preferences > Project - Metronome and clear the Recording check
box.
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 > Control Panel > Hardware and Sound >
Volume Control in Windows 7.
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.
SONAR records all the MIDI tracks that are assigned to the stand-alone synth as a stereo audio
track.
After you finish recording, mute the MIDI tracks that you just recorded so you don’t hear them and
the new audio track at the same time.
Note: If you have more than one sound card installed, select the one that your stand-alone synth
uses as an output.
Note: Some sound cards, such as the SoundBlaster Live, have their own proprietary mixer. If
yours has one, please use it instead.