My goodness! That's the best tip yet!! Thanks a million scook, I've never looked closely at that dialog. I have been opening files in Cubase to edit out the unwanted data.
But it does kind of suck that Sonar would hide simple things like this in impossible places.
I work from time to time with download files to use as backing tracks and often tracks revert to original settings no matter what you do in Sonars instrument dialogs. And controllers for things like instrument effects. Just try shutting the reverb off on the BAss in tts-1 as example..no way.
The data is never in the event list which to me is where it belongs. That is where you will find it in other DAWs. So I've just always used Cubase to strip this data from the file.
There's always more than one way to do the same thing in Sonar.
Changing the bass to the SI Bass is as simple as this.
Open the synth rack on the right of screenset 2.
Insert the SI Bass
In the dialog the only box I check is "use single output" and "always ask" - all other are not checked.
Now go to the track header of the midi bass track and point it's output to the SI Bass.
90% of the time you will need to transpose it up +12.
I don't like using the sythns audio track to put a midi track for a few reasons, just my way of working, we all work differently.
One main reason is I might insert a few synths and then I can audition the midi track with different sound by simply changing the output.
I also might point the output of more than one track at a certain instrument.
to me everything is layed out logicialy if midi is in a midi track
audio in an audio track and the synths are sitting there out of sight. I put all synth tracks at the top grouped to gether.
It's great that we have all these options for workflow 'cause we all think differently.
post edited by Cactus Music - 2016/07/26 11:19:30