Addictive Drums

Hi
 
I can't seem to get addictive drums to work in sonar x2 (no sound) and that i can only add it to an audio track and not a midi track, i used to have this working till i cleaned my computer to send it back for repairs and i had a work around but cant remember, anyone able to help?

Your discription of "inserting it to an audio track " has me pondering if you are using it correctly. 
You insert soft synths and they will create there own track. Make sure you choose the settings you want in the insert dialog box. There are a few choices to be made. 
 
Then it's a matter of pointing any midi tracks output at that synth. 
When you open the AD GUI and hit a drum do you hear anything? 

Insert soft synth in the synth rack as CJ pointed out.
 
You will need to output your midi track to AD.
 
I don't think all of AD's outputs are necessary. (They are listed as inputs on the audio tracks)
I use only the mono tracks for the individual pieces and stereo tracks for the room, overheads and FX.
 
It depends on what your after from there. I don't use AD's effects and just insert the effect I want in the tracks.

If your still having trouble with hearing the drums, make sure the arrows are on in the bottom of the AD UI next to each fader.

You will need to output your midi track to AD.

 
You do not have to output any midi tracks to AD. When you use the 'insert soft synth' function, it configures all outs and ins for you. If you change anything, it will screw you up.
 
IF you want to have all drums outputting to different audio tracks, you need to select multiple outs. I*f you do not, then all drums will be outputting on one audio track and you wont be able to use the sonar faders and effects to adjust individual drums
 
CJ
 

Me too? I've been doing wrong for 10 years ? 
You can use the simple instrument track or what ever it's called, your choice,  but lot of us still point a nice fresh shiny new midi track output at what ever soft synth we want it to trigger. 
That's why I said what I said in my post,,, there are options, and if you don't understand those options, read the help files or ask here.. 
 

If you choose the option to add a MIDI track as well in the pop up dialog box then it will route THAT MIDI track to the softsynth you inserted.  if your MIDI track is added separately from that dialog box at the time of the softsynth insertion, then you have to set the output of the MIDI track to the softsynth manually.

IIRC, I've never set the output of a MIDI track anywhere when inserting AD or any other soft synths. As long as I remember (since SONAR 4 or longer??) "Insert soft synth" command has created all the MIDI and audio tracks automatically, either all outputs or only one.
Then again, I've always started from scratch, I've never had the MIDI ready waiting for the appropriate synth.

This is confusing because of a lot of replies haha!
 
What Beagle has mentioned, sounds like something similar i did before!
 
Because i had the midi drum track on the midi channel and i had addictive drums running on a audio channel, because it would not let me add addictive drums to the midi channel for some reason! But i just couldn't remember how i did it.
 
Just a quick note about my PC, i cleaned it to factory standard so i could send it back to the original retailers where it came from (pc specialist) due to hardware malfunctions! so i didn't let a random person do it :)
 
When i got it back i just installed addictive drums and sonar x2 like i did before so nothing different!
 
Thanks for the replies guys! It's very nice to know people are keen on helping and replying on a forum like this! :)

http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/2899224
 
That post has a lot in it which is helpful to using AD in SONAR.

Ok i still can't get this to work or figure it it, why 't addictive drums just be a simple midi track?
 
I have unistalled x2 and downloaded the trail for x3 now to see if that works, and if i get it working fine i may upgrade. But still can't get it to work and in my outputs in preferences it says ASIO output not connected?

Beagle
AD uses a simple MIDI track, there must be something else going on  that we're not aware of, or that you've not told us about.
 
uninstalling and reinstalling is very likely NOT going to solve this problem.
 
ASIO output not connected - there is something we didn't know about!  I also don't see where you told us what soundcard you're using?

Hello i believe its just Realtek High definition audio, it is just a standard one

Any other programs just as good as Sonar i could move on to? looks like sonar will just not work with addictive drums...

Ok just got it working nevermind haha!
 

Thanks for your kind comments and advice, and yes i have got it working now, for some reason like i said the ASIO was not connect for some reason, so i changed this to WASAPI and then i had to change the master output to my speakers. Which i thought i did last time when i was changing all this stuff but it didn't work then. 
 
I still have to put Addictive drums onto the audio track and place the midi audio onto the midi track