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Tutorial 8—Using Soft Synths
synthesizers including Cakewalk TTS-1 to your hard drive, and restart
SONAR.
This tutorial covers the following:
• Inserting Cakewalk TTS-1 into a project
• Playing MIDI tracks through a soft synth
• Converting soft synth tracks to audio
First Step: Inserting Cakewalk TTS-1 into a Project.
Inserting Cakewalk TTS-1 into a Project
Inserting a soft synth into a project means that the name of the soft synth
appears in the dropdown menus of MIDI track Output fields and audio track
Input fields.
To Insert Cakewalk TTS-1 into a Project
1. Open a MIDI project—for this tutorial use TUTORIAL8.CWP.
2. Use the Insert-Soft Synths command and click Cakewalk TTS-1 on
the popup menu.
The Insert Soft Synth Options dialog appears.
3. In the Create These Tracks fields, deselect MIDI Source, because we
want to play some pre-existing tracks through Cakewalk TTS-1.
4. Select All Synth Audio Outputs because we’re going to use a different
synth track for each of Cakewalk TTS-1’s 4 outputs. The new synth
tracks have Cakewalk TTS-1 already patched to them as audio inputs.
5. In the Open These Windows fields, select both Synth Property Page
and Synth Rack view. These two options open Cakewalk TTS-1’s
property page (interface), and the Synth Rack view, respectively.
6. Click OK.
SONAR inserts 4 synth tracks that each have one of Cakewalk TTS-1’s
outputs as an input (notice that these tracks have the soft synth icon next to
their track numbers), inserts a synth audio track to produce the sound from
the 4 synth tracks, opens the Synth Rack view with Cakewalk TTS-1
displayed in the first row, and opens Cakewalk TTS-1’s property page. Click
a track in the Track view to put the focus on the Track view, and then press
F on your keyboard to fit all the new tracks into view.
Notice that the Output field of each synth track is labeled Cakewalk TTS-1
1. The “1” means that this is the first instance of Cakewalk TTS-1 that you
have inserted into this project. If you use the Insert-Soft Synths command