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The OP has the answer They actually read the very clear instructions supplied by Focusrite. What a concept hey! Reading the instructions. And Asio4all is never installed by Windows. Windows will use its own drivers , WASAPI, MME or WDM. It has never been involved in downloading ASIO. You always need to download the drivers from the manufacturer web site. This is always CLEARLY outlined by the Quick start guide that is ALWAYS in the box! Asio4 all doesn’t interfere with your ASIO driver. The only known issue is with Steinberg generic and Magix . And only with Sonar and Cakewalk. They sometimes confuse the software. Doesn’t seem to happen elsewhere. Real tech also has a very bad ASIO driver but that also doesn’t matter if you use a proper ASIO audio interface. . It can only be used when you use the Realtek sound card. But they advise that you use WASAPI instead.

What is to understand is that if those are midi tracks the level control is not an audio control but a Midi CC7 volume event adjustment for the channel that it is assigned to. So you cannot adjust each track separately if they are all using the same midi channel and are assigned to the same instrument. Each track would need to be on a different channel and using the track header you would enter the bank and patch to choose the correct instrument which is probably the standard kit. If I still had the TTS-1 I could post a screenshot. But I don’t. Really this would be much easier if you used Session Drums or the SI kit which have level control for each kit piece. Otherwise use velocity.

Seems a waste of time posting anything here but I might get lucky. Cakewalk Next unlike Sonar has a lot of pretty decent instruments included. And it seems that they must have GM patches associated with some / all? If you drag a GM midi file it opens and plays the file. Here is a few requests that I feel should anyone still feel the need to make some small improvements might be considered. 1- A way to view the patch numbers of the instruments that use them 2- A way to audition the instruments in the browser like you do with the samples. 3- That Next asks you if you want to import the tempo from midi files. Thank you and looking forward to seeing Next grow.

Here’s how to change the project sample rate of 44.1 to 48. Save as and re name “Project 48” Note- Midi is not involved. But unfreeze any frozen synths. Export all audio as 48/32 wave.make sure export is set to start at zero. Make sure automation is in a lane. Now delete all the audio data in the tracks Including any archives or hidden audio. Now you can change the sample rate to 48. Check in the transport that it indeed was changed. If it doesn’t change then there is audio hidden somewhere. Now drag the audio stems back to their original tracks. Done. I did this for whole bunch of older projects as it bugs me now when the sample rate changes with a loud click. Then I got screwed over the other day because I had to do the clean install of Sonar and I forgot to change the default settings for sample rate. Why would 44.1 be a default? Most other daw s I use automatically grab my interface setting of 48

@David Baay The drums and percussion are a Bank. You choose the bank and the different kits are available for all channels. I no longer have the TTS-1 as I have excluded it but for sure I have done this in the past and loaded percussion or the different kits into channels 11 and 12 to double up on sounds. A common technique for beefing up lame GM patches.

I voted for this using the stars at the top, funny how nobody else notices them? I’ll just say one thing. I have been working with a lot of other Daw’s. Most are as old as Sonar. Sonars PVR is miles ahead of all of them!! 1- Smart Tool 2- the Track Selection on the Right. Including Audio tracks. 3- The ability to select notes globally from the keyboard on the left. Nobody else does this. You have to lasso. 4-This is really a serious issue with most! The PVR zoom level never stays put. Every track you open will be different?? Cakewalk Next is like this too. Every time you open the midi editor it is zoomed totally wrong. Sonar always resumes as you last used it. 5- being able to move playback now time from within the editor! This is just something we take for granted. Most Daw’s make you return to the track view and place the playback head where needed? There’s even no scrolling in some. Some of this might be due to not knowing how to do things correctly but I’m not sure. Don’t think I’ve seen a un- dupe yet. Anyways if you’re a midi master then Im afraid you are stuck with Sonar and the stupid memberships deal! I haven’t explored Steinberg or Presonus deeply enough yet but they seemed overly hard to learn as well as way too expensive. .

Go back and read the OP. It would imply the user is possibly using a multi output VST drum kit. but!! Then we find out it is the TTS-1. Which is sort of multi out but the drum channel is normally just a stereo output which can only be assigned to 1 stereo output. The op is ( I think) is using multiple midi tracks to feed the TTS-1 drums. But this was not clear due to the lack of clarity in the op. So the answer to the question might be as simple as you use the Channel 10 fader of the TTS-1. Each of those tracks are possibly all Ch10. changing any of the tracks will result in the sending of multiple cc7 events on CH 10 so best man wins. Unless the op is using all 16 TTS1 channels as a drum kit?? I guess that’s a weird way to do things but you could have say the drum kit assigned to all 16 channels and each midi track set as such! Channel 1 kick, Channel 2 snare and so forth! Then the answer is to use the instrument tracks volume as the master . That seems way too obvious so not sure. As usual more information is needed to actually understand what is happening. Questions. Are the multiple tracks midi or the 4 audio tracks that the TTS-1 is capable of using. Are you only using channel 10 of the TTS-1 ? or more? Is the TTS /1 installed as a simple instrument track or. Split? S it set up to use all 4 channels?

Actually this is probably correct because serials are the old method from the good old days when you actually owned the software. And I 100% agree that the web site sucks. Just go to any other Daw web site and it’s pretty straightforward. I needed to re install Sonar a while ago and I was taken to the Sonar legacy site. I don’t know who’s in charge of the website but I would fire them!

Are you using the Arranger list in the inspector? Generally you simply create an intro, verse, chorus and a bridge. Ending. You open the arranger list and drag the parts to the lower window and “Arrange “ the song.

Im in the camp of not actually understanding screen sets so I have never tried them. I have 2 workspaces. One screen and Two screens. they are both kept tidy with the Inspector, Bus pane and browser closed. I then use the keyboard shortcuts to open those views if needed. The console view I have never managed to control how it opened so I just drag the divider as I work. I guess I should save a screen set but it’s just faster to quickly move stuff around. The mile stone for me was memorizing the important keyboard shortcuts to open and close views. Im wearing out my D key as I often use only one monitor as I need the second one for looking at other stuff like lyrics.

Second post in a few days regarding the old web site when people are looking for Sonar. Why on earth is it still there??? If anything place a re- direct to the new website. I have asked about this before. I’ll try again. @Jesse Jost??

It’s been an over year and 14 of my songs and I made $5 after 10,000 or so plays. So I didn’t renew my subscription but they can’t take the songs down so I’m fine with that. It’s cool to tell people at concerts that they can listen to you music on any of the delivery services. It also is an essential part of getting those gigs. They want links to Spotify and YouTube. All these distributor companies are just the new version of the record labels that never paid you either. So many Beat makers crank out millions of “productions”. They all think this is the ticket to success! The only success is that Distro kid is taking your money and then doing nothing much else other than giving your music away. Our good friends at Bandlab follow this same trend.

Yep Sonar is now one of the very few Daw’s that doesn’t have a simple GM player anymore. Wasn’t totally the developers fault as Greg said Roland owned it and wanted it removed. The TTS-1 was becoming very unstable and causing crashes anyway so it was a good decision. But what I don’t understand is why they didn’t make it a priority to use the same instruments as Cakewalk Next is using? They are a step up from TTS-1. I don’t think they would do that for Cakewalk but they most certainly should for Sonar. For now I recommend you use the VST synth font 64 player. The demo is free and then a license I think is only $20. I got it free with Band in. Box. But you will still need to manually insert it.

I was wondering the same thing? You use the software that comes the closest to your workflow. After spending a year now trying out most of the other Daw’s I really see how foolish I was to only learn Cakewalk. And it is among one of the most clunky difficult daw’s to learn. It is such a relief to find other great Daw’s that you can figure out in a few days. Sonar took me 15 years! My main concern is that the developers are now a very small team and new features are going to be painfully slow in coming. A great example was the painfully slow release of Sonar. Cakewalk Next is still in Beta? You can see Im not alone in what I did last year by the huge change in activity on this forum. Look at the Sonar sub forum. It’s pathetic. 12 people possibly answer questions and a lot of the questions are related to older Sonar. Everybody is gone elsewhere. The Next sub forum scores lower than the computer sub forum for posting. It’s really sad what Bandlab did to a great Daw. Im still waiting to see if they sell it to someone who actually cares.

And for me it has been the cause of multiple problems with older projects crashing on loading. I have simply replaced it with Coyote and VST synth font 64