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Tutorial 4—Editing MIDI
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signal and the processed signal are coming out of your sound card. Turn
your speakers off whenever you enable input monitoring, and then try
turning them up very gradually to try it out. If you hear feedback, click the
Audio Engine button in the Transport toolbar to turn input
monitoring off.
For more information on Input Monitoring, see the online help topic “Input
Monitoring.”
Next Step: Loop and Punch-In Recording.
Loop and Punch-In Recording
Loop and Punch-in work the same for digital audio recording as they did for
MIDI recording. For more information, see the online help topics “Loop
Recording” or “Punch Recording.”
Next Step: Recording Multiple Channels.
Recording Multiple Channels
If you can gather the entire band around your computer, and if you have the
proper equipment, you can record a full multiple-instrument performance all
at once. If you have several MIDI instruments, you can route their input into
your sound card through a MIDI merger—data that arrives on different MIDI
channels can be routed to different tracks. Likewise, a typical sound card
can record audio on both right and left channels—each can be recorded on
a different track by choosing the right channel as an input for one track, and
the left channel as an input for another. Multiple sound cards and multi-I/O
sound cards can expand the number of possible inputs. For more
information, see the online help topic “System Configuration.”
That completes the audio recording tutorial. Now you’ve learned the basics
of playing and recording material for your projects. In the following tutorials
you'll learn about basic editing techniques for both MIDI and audio.
Go to the next tutorial: Tutorial 4—Editing MIDI.
Back to Tutorials.
Tutorial 4—Editing MIDI
SONAR has too many powerful MIDI features to look at in one tutorial, so
let’s look at some of the most basic features and also cover some exciting
new ones, such as slip-editing and MIDI envelopes.