Cobus Prinsloo

Hi, I've wrestled with one project in terms of audio dropouts. It's so bad that, when it happens, it's no use restarting the audio engine. SO, I've consulted the Sonar manual, and one setting I should be able to change is the number in the Buffers in Playback Queue box under "Mixing Latency". Although I'm running a decent ASIO driver for my Scarlett 4i4, I'm unable to change the current setting "2". Can someone help, please?

Hi all. This probably sounds like a strange question. I'm using Sine Player's Free Berlin Orchestra (very nice freebee), which can utilize key changes to change articulations for instruments, but I've had endless problems making it work – until I figured out that Sonar registers all input 2x octaves higher! If I, for instance, I press middle C on my MIDI keyboard, it registers C5 on the piano roll. During my project, I transposed all of my tracks several times to find the most comfortable pitch for my voice, but there are no transpose plugins on my tracks. Is there some hidden transpose function operating in the background?

Hi all, I often copy/paste automation curves (see screenshot), but when nodes are pasted, Sonar adds another node on either side of the pasted curve. And the newly added node on the left is added where the playhead was -- thus resulting in the curve getting an offset towards the right each time. Perhaps I'm doing this wrong?

That would make sense, thank you! I'm not familiar with the term "power-cycling"?

OK, it doesn't look like there's a way to delete a thread, so here goes: Problem solved. It seems that it was a Windows issue - after I restarted, Sonar was back to normal again.

Hi, this is a new one for me. Out of the blue, when I solo a track, I cannot hear my MIDI keyboard. The MIDI works fine (as indicated on my Scarlett 4i4 interface), but there's no sound. I'm not aware that I changed anything in Preferences. The only unusual thing is that Sonar crashed 2-3 times today unexpectedly.

Thank you, this is feedback that makes sense!

Thanks, but it doesn't look like it's possible to change the thumbnails in the Mixer section. On R-clicking a thumbnail, it only gives the options to load or unload an instrument.

Yes, it is a conundrum (pun intended). I started playing with SD and generated a Step Sequencer based on its drums successfully. However, after loading my own samples into SD, it seems to get confused with its channels. For instance, the Bassdr track (row no 36) works fine, but rows 37-40 all play channel 2 from the SD. Row 41 plays channel 6. Row 42 plays channel 3. Row 43 plays channel 6 again. Row 44 plays channel 3 again. Row 45 plays channel 5. Row 46 plays channel 3 again. Row7 plays channel 5 again. Can anyone make sense to me? FEATURE REQUEST: Please make it possible to load one's own drum thumbnails in the mixer, just like for instrument tracks in Sonar.

This is fantastic, especially the fact that it can be routed through the Step Sequencer! Request: Yes, the video tutorials are adequate, thanks, but I do believe that Session Drummer 3 should get more visibility in the manual as a significant component of the DAW, as I've scanned through most of it over the past months but didn't even know that it was available (like some of the other folks in this thread). Lastly, if SD 3 could be updated to include the ability to view and do some limited tweaking to the waveform of any loaded sample, i.e., trimming/cropping, as is the case with Sitala, this will be an invaluable feature. Thanks for the good work.

Thank you, guys, for all your input! Yes, I have come across very nice tutorials on YouTube. Nothing else needed.

This is good news, thanks. I looked in my Sonar manual, found only 2-3 references to Session Drummer, but nothing on how to use it.

Which version of Cakewalk or Sonar are we talking about? I'm surprised that such a feature was taken away and not replaced with something similar or better.

Hi all. As I've mentioned before, I use the SS a lot for my drum tracks. Several virtual "instruments" have pretty decent drum kits, and I've set up SS templates for their use with MIDI (see screenshot) However, I have built up quite a large library of percussion sounds in WAV format, and want to know if there's any way to map WAV clips to keys of the MIDI keyboard to enable me to use them in my SS as well? If not, I think it would be a cool feature to add to Sonar. Lastly, what platform is recommended to post my music made in Sonar, for feedback? Thank you.

I see what you mean. The fact that both clips have the same instance ID [2] led Sonar to believe that both are the same. So, I checked "Unlink Step Sequencer Clips" before copying it, and that solved this issue, thanks! In this new template, the clip velocities behave normally again. But, it still doesn't explain why the kick still plays back even while being muted in the original project.