Instruction Manual

590 Mixing
Mixing MIDI
To Convert a Sound Card’s Synth Tracks to a Stereo
Audio Track
1. Pick a destination audio track 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 your 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.
6. Open the sound card’s recording control window (the command is
probably Options-Properties-Adjust Volume For Recording) and
make sure all boxes below Adjust Volume For Recording 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 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.