Rick Blacker Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Hi all... It's been a long time since I've used a DAW. Sonar X3 Producer. I've forgotten quit a bit. I played and recorded guitar. I had purchased a A-500 Pro MIDI keyboard to play around with. My girlfriend used to play the piano, asked me to get this all set back up so she could play piano through the MIDI keyboard. So, I downloaded the newest version of Sonar just now. I loaded up the TruePianos plugin. But now I'm lost on how to get Sonar to work with this MIDI keyboard. I've setup Sonar's MIDI devices like this. But beyond this I'm pretty lost. I was hoping that someone might be able to point me to a tutorial, documentation that would show me how to get this working so that we can hear piano being played when the keys are being struck. I have an Octa-Capture that seems to be configured properly. I loaded up a loop track and was able to play it and hear it through the Octa-Capture just fine. Any help will be GREATLY appreciated! Thanks Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Vere Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Did you set the midi tracks input to the A-500? In my signature is a link to all my tutorials on midi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeGBradford Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 I can't see anything wrong with that set up. Check that you are transmitting midi channel 1 and the track you are playing into is set to receive that, Omni or all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeGBradford Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 I'd add that the APro series can be very tempremental in my experience sometimes requiring a restart of CbB or the PC to work (might just be me of course!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapasoa Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 (edited) Roland A - 500 Pro is a keyboard controller. His midi output has to go to your audio interface midi in. Go to your DAW preferences , in the midi section devices, and you can see that your DAW will recognize input and output of your adio interface. Edited December 30, 2020 by lapasoa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michheld Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Maybe this helps:http://forum.cakewalk.com/UPDATED-Configuring-Your-APro-to-Work-WithWithout-ACT-m2181430.aspx Have Fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Blacker Posted December 30, 2020 Author Share Posted December 30, 2020 (edited) Hey guys, thanks... Last night I was able to stumble around and get it to work. John's tip helped me figure it out. I got the TruePianos to work by ensuring I had the proper in/out. Next I wanted to play with z3ta. I know it's not the only way, but I was able to get that to work by ensuing it was using "Simple Instrument Track". I have the Sonar X3 Explained by Groove 3 video series. I'm going to go back and watch. I've forgotten just about everything I had learned in the past. I sure love the new GUI improvements over X3. I had no idea that it was free now. What happen? Gibson just couldn't make any money with it anymore? It's an amazing piece of software, I can't believe it's free. Edited December 30, 2020 by Rick Blacker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Vere Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 To explain what happened is a full length novel. Basically Gibson went bankrupt and just pulled the plug. We all made plans and actually x3 was a part of that because it was the last version you could activate without a server. lots of long time users jumped ship to other DAWs and the forum was flooded with talk about which one to switch to and out of left field Bandlab buys it and said it’s now free. They kept staff and set them to focusing on bugs and stability. So what we still have is our favourite DAW , it’s free and it’s hugely improved. Welcome back. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InstrEd Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 9 minutes ago, John Vere said: They kept staff and set them to focusing on bugs and stability. So what we still have is our favourite DAW , it’s free and it’s hugely improved. Welcome back. Yes welcome back. You will love how much has been worked on under the hood! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeGBradford Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Welcome back indeed! A great (re)starting point are Mike's videos here - he has a whole series on CbB and is an entertaining teacher. There are several other great free learning resources - check out the tutorial sub forum. The guys here are really helpful & friendly as well of course and you can learn a lot just from reading through the various topics! There's a couple of freeware threads in the Instruments sub forum for instruments and effects if you want to build up your VST stash! Good luck! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Blacker Posted December 30, 2020 Author Share Posted December 30, 2020 Thanks guys! I didn't go to any other DAW, I just stopped playing guitar and my music hobby. However, like I mentioned by girlfriend wants to play piano again so I thought I would set her up. Maybe this is a kick in the butt I need to start playing again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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