Convert Midi Track to Audio Track Help Please

What is the MIDI track playing back through? Soft synth? Hardware?
 
Other thoughts regardless of the answer to that are MIDI CCs 8 and/or 10. (balance & pan). Any present on the MIDI track?

Follow the link to the Cakewalk documentation site.  You can find most answers there.
 
http://www.cakewalk.com/D...elp=SoftSynths.12.html
 
Since you have 8.5, you may want to start with the main Sonar document site and see all of the help they have for Sonar under version X.   http://www.cakewalk.com/D...ge=3&help=toc.html
 
Peace
 
 

Basics... MIDI is simply "note data" without sound. In order to get sound, you either need to insert a soft synth or route it through an external synth (which seems to be what you are doing).
 
In your case, you would need to send the MIDI to the external synth, but loop an audio cable (not MIDI), back from this synth into an audio track in SONAR (either an audio out or even a headphone out). If you play the MIDI track, you can arm/record that audio "loopback" into SONAR as a wav file. This would be a "real-time" process as there is no shortcut to speed up an external "render." This recording can then be mixed for export.
 
I am not sure if I understand your situation correctly, so please reply back if I missed the mark there.
 
Welcome to the forums btw!

Thanks Mettelus and John.  I have done all you suggested, have converted numerous Midi tracks to audio in the past.  For some reason I just can't get the left and right side to balance on the audio track as explained above.

Mettelus, you are the winner tonight!  Sometimes the answer is so simple.  Your last suggestion sounded so right, given everything else and my not having any problems converting Midi to audio in the past.  I changed cables, and sure enough, I have a deficient one.
 
Thanks so much to all for your time in responding.

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