Chaps

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/15155740

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

Can this be remedied by saving the desired dithering option as a preset in the audio export dialog?

I am using the free tier of Sonar so I have no way to check this but if it were me I would make sure that workspaces and screensets were turned off in the default project template to rule them out as the root of the problem. I have never used them but I have seen many people find out that a workspace setting was the cause of their problem.

Just to make sure I understand what is happening, is your default project template saved as a .cwt file in the directory specified in the Sonar preferences default folder locations for project templates?

I don't know what device you are using but on my desktop and tablet those three dots are a different menu than what is used to share a video. In the image below I have outlined the SHARE button and the resulting COPY box in red. So, click the SHARE Button and then click COPY. Then paste that into a post to share the video.