Instruction Manual

578 Software Synthesizers

Stand-alone Synths

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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.