Reference Guide

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Mixing MIDI
Mixing
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).
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
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.
Note: If you have more than one sound card installed, select the one that your synth uses as
an output.