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Well, for sure something isn't right but without knowing exactly what you did it is hard to pin down what happened. Are you using Simple Instrument Tracks or a MIDI track output to the synth? Anyway... Here is a simple process for outputting one or more synth audio tracks to one bus. 1, You need to have a bus created for the instruments. In the image below I am using a bus named New Bus. 2. Select all the synth audio tracks you want going to that bus. 3. Click Tracks in the menu at the top of the track pane 4. Click Selected Track Outputs. 5. In the menu that opens click the down arrow to the right of the Audio Outputs box. This will open a list of all available audio outputs that you can direct the outputs of your synth tracks to. After selecting the bus you want, click OK. Now all the tracks you selected are output to that one bus.

If you put all your templates in the folder that Sonar uses they will all show on the Start Screen in the Create window. You can change the default Template folder in Edit>Preferences>File>Folder Locations. Mine are in C:\Cakewalk Content\Sonar\Project Templates and I believe that is the default location. That seems simpler than trying to keep track of template files in multiple locations.

Thanks for the listen and the comments. For sure there is a lot going on in there and I have been having trouble balancing separation and the dream-like quality I am trying to express. Maybe I should stop listening to so much Hope Sandoval and Mazzy Star.

Thanks for the listen and the comments. For sure the snare drum is much too bright. I have four drum synths playing the snare part (pretty much everything except the vocal and the Desolate Guitars Fragment part in the beginning is being played with multiple instruments with minor variations in MIDI velocity and placement) and just a minor change in the balance can have major consequences in the sound. I wish I had listened to the exported file before I uploaded it or I would have redone the mix before posting. I know the panning is off but that was a conscious decision that probably didn't work the way I wanted it to. The guitar solo, or as I think of it, the interlude, over the verse is made up of me playing the same part six times as well as being doubled by two synths playing the same line. I spent a lot of time on that and I'm pretty happy with the way it came out. I always have a hard time mixing my vocals. Maybe because I'm too focused on getting the lyrics across instead of how it blends in. Thanks again for your comments and I will keep all of them in mind when I get back to that project. It is still very much a work in progress.

I've been fiddling with this one for months. Lots of things in it I am not happy with but can't seem to get it right. Maybe someone could offer a suggestion that will create an epiphany for me and help me on my way. All comments welcome. https://soundclick.com/song/15155752

It's been a long time since I've worked with loops but I believe in the Loop Construction View (Alt+7) you have the option of the loop following the project pitch (key) or root pitch of your choice. In the image below it shows the PITCH button NOT Highlighted, where it follows the project pitch and Highlighted where you pick a root pitch for the loop, which will change the pitch of the sample's playback. I don't have any Acid Loops to try this on but this is how Groove Clip pitches are changed.

Sounds good to me. Great vocals. The drums were mixed kind of low.

Must be the season of the witch.

I've never heard of it so I downloaded and installed the win64 versions, vst and vst3. After scanning the plugins and inserting it as a synth with associated audio and MIDI tracks it responds like most other synth plugins, other than all the modular connections that I have a very poor understanding of. Clicking the File menu item at the top left and clicking Open demo /example project reveals a short list of demo projects with the associated modular connections. How familiar are you with Sonar and inserting synths into a project? If you've done it before, inserting Cardinal works the same way. I've had years of experience at this basic function so it only took me a few minutes to get it going. How well you'll be able to use it depends on your knowledge of, and experience with, modular synthesis. I have zero experience with modular synths so I can't help you there.

Incidentally, if dragging the .dslibrary file to the Decent Sampler windows doesn't automatically install the sample libraries in the designated Decent Sampler default sample library location, copying/moving the entire unzipped folder containing the .dslibrary file/s to the default sample library directory should do the trick. I have had to do this with other Decent Sample libraries.

If it were me, here is what I would check. Dragging the VT - Auras Lichen.dslibrary file from the unzipped folder you downloaded onto the Decent Sampler window should (it did for me) copy the sample library to the default sample library location that is set in File>Preferences>General Preferences section of Decent Sampler. In my case it is I:\Samples (see image below). There should be a VT - Auras Lichen folder in that location that contains the presets, samples, and IR libraries. Clicking the Decent Sampler Browse>File Browser should show the library there. Load that and the new presets should show in Decent Sampler Choose Preset window.

I opened the standalone version of Decent Sampler and followed the instructions in the unzipped VT - Auras Lichen directory. Once you have it installed open Decent Sampler and simply drag the '.dslibrary' file on to the interface and it will work it's magic! If you want to keep your libraries in a specific location, make sure the '.dslibrary' file is in that directory BEFORE importing! The samples played fine in the standalone version. I closed that and opened Decent Sampler as an instrument in Sonar, clicked the Browse button in DS, loaded the VT - Auras Lichen library, selected a preset and it played fine. Every preset I picked loaded and played okay.

But you can load them in Session Drummer, which is why I downloaded them.

Yeah, that would be a handy feature.

Click and drag the left edge. Don't know why this came out so big. Sorry about that. Try right-clicking it and opening it in a new tab. PRV Show Keyboard 1.mp4