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Tutorial 4—Editing MIDI

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sounds, you can use your sound card’s “What You Hear” or wave capture

function to convert the MIDI tracks, if your sound card can function this way.

See the following procedure:

To Convert MIDI to Audio

1. Pick a destination audio track (or create a new one) and set the Input

field to Stereo (name of your sound card).

Note: If you have more than one sound card installed, select the one

that has the built-in synth that your MIDI tracks use.

2. Arm the destination track. Make sure its Input Echo button is off, so you

won’t hear an echo when you’re recording.

3. Mute any tracks that you don’t want to record to the destination track.

4. Open your sound card's mixer device. This is normally done by double-

clicking the speaker icon on your Windows taskbar, or by choosing

Start-Programs-Accessories-Entertainment-Volume Control-

Options-Properties.

Note: Some sound cards have their own proprietary mixer. If yours has

one, please use it instead.

5. If you’re using the Windows mixer, use its Options-Properties

command to open the Properties dialog box, click Recording (in the

Adjust Volume For field), and make sure all boxes in the Show the

Following Volume Controls field are checked.

6. 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.

7. In SONAR, rewind to the beginning of your project, click the Record

button, and click the Stop button when you’re done recording.

SONAR records all the MIDI tracks that are assigned to your sound card

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.

Go to the next tutorial: Tutorial 5—Editing Audio.

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