Audio/MIDI routing questions

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2010/02/11 14:40:58 (permalink)

Audio/MIDI routing questions

This is different to the earlier routing a bus to a track thread :)

1) Has Sonar 8 (or 8.5) managed to add any further flexibility in allowing a single MIDI input to be routed to multiple tracks? It's possible to do using a virtual MIDI cable but I wondered if it was possible to do this 'in the box' so to speak

2) Is it possible to have an audio track output to multiple outputs? I specifically need an audio track (with an audio input) to output to six different hardware outputs.

Any help would be appreciated.
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    brundlefly
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    Re:Audio/MIDI routing questions 2010/02/11 14:51:38 (permalink)
    No on 1), but Yes on 2) - Just add sends.
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    Re:Audio/MIDI routing questions 2010/02/11 14:53:53 (permalink)
    Cheers, brundlefly.
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    Re:Audio/MIDI routing questions 2010/02/11 15:22:24 (permalink)
    auricle


    This is different to the earlier routing a bus to a track thread :)

    1) Has Sonar 8 (or 8.5) managed to add any further flexibility in allowing a single MIDI input to be routed to multiple tracks? It's possible to do using a virtual MIDI cable but I wondered if it was possible to do this 'in the box' so to speak

    2) Is it possible to have an audio track output to multiple outputs? I specifically need an audio track (with an audio input) to output to six different hardware outputs.

    Any help would be appreciated.
    Hi auricle,

    1. Yes, it is possible to route and have very complex or very simple but awfully effective MIDI routings, using MIDI-Yoke and MIDI-Ox (virtual Cables)..Sonar is completely functional and compatible as such.

    2.  Audio routings are also possible, although I don't do that but on rather simple way, using VST-Host, a free VST, very powerful VST utility...It also does MIDI in some fashion similar to MIDI-Ox, and I use both MIDI-Yoke/Ox and VST-Host combined with SonarLE.

    Your own trying is the answer, though.

    Best of all.

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    Re:Audio/MIDI routing questions 2010/02/11 16:06:07 (permalink)
    auricle


    This is different to the earlier routing a bus to a track thread :)

    1) Has Sonar 8 (or 8.5) managed to add any further flexibility in allowing a single MIDI input to be routed to multiple tracks? It's possible to do using a virtual MIDI cable but I wondered if it was possible to do this 'in the box' so to speak

    2) Is it possible to have an audio track output to multiple outputs? I specifically need an audio track (with an audio input) to output to six different hardware outputs.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    There are good news and bad news.
     
    Good News:
    You can send MIDI to as many track inputs as you want if you use a VSTi that simply passes all input MIDI events out to its output. You insert this VSTi into any audio track's fx bin, then use one MIDI track where you set the input to your external source, and the output to go into the VSTi (also toggle the Echo button on this MIDI track to ON). Then you go to the synth rack, right-click on the VSTi and select "Enable MIDI output". The output of this VSTi then becomes available as a MIDI input to as many other tracks as you like.
     
    Bad News:
    Due to a bug in Sonar, this won't work. See this website detailing the issue.
     
    You can actually use the VSTi plugin that you can download from that site to give you the MIDI passthrough functionality as described above. Set the settings to:
     
    Echo MIDI: Yes
    MIDI Delay: No
    Buffer MIDI: No
    Generate Notes: No
     
    Yet another example where this bug in Sonar prevents us from doing basic MIDI routing...

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