Export song with audio & midi

If your MIDI tracks have a DXi output you will have to Bounce them to Audio (refer to the Help Menu -- it should be easy). If not, I can't help since I run with the same problem actually!

(Since I'm working with Edirol UA-25 Interface, the trick I used was to playback the entire Mix and connect the Output jacks to the Input jacks on the UA-25 and record all the Output Mix into an Audio track -- but this is NO solution because glitches can happen during the playback.)

Any ideas?

Best regards,
Paulo Renato

Deep,
Yes, but connect your speakers to the OUT of the UA25.
When you select patches, are you looking at numbered patches in the Track Pane? That won't work. Select Presets inside Dreamstation.
If you have a mix of Audio and MIDI tracks, make sure ALL Audio and DXi outputs are directed to Master. Export the mix(Select Export from File in the toolbar). Select Entire Mix, and export as 16 Bit/44.1mhz. After that, you can burn the exported file to CD, or conver it to an MP3.

D,
You've got a couple of things going on here.
Dreamstation is an emulation of old school analog synths. The presets for it are tone and texture variations. It is a completely different animal from the patches you seem to be looking for. These are a General MIDI set of predefined instrument sounds. I have looked in vain for Cyclone patches. The Edirol VSC comes with other Cakewalk products, and it would be what you are after. I can't legally transfer it to you, or I would.
If you can spend $39, I would get Music Creator 3. It is essentially the same program as Sonar LE, but it comes with Edirol VSC. As near as I can tell Sonar LE is sort of a demo program to give you a taste of Cakewalk products. I use Sonar Home Studio 4 myself.
The UA25 should be your functioning sound card, which is why you would want to monitor from it. It takes your built in sound card out of the equation entirely.
When you export, the sound card does not come into play at all, so yes, you could export all tracks directly.
I hope this hasn't made things more confusing. This stuff can get complicated, and it's hard to convey exactly the right info sometimes.

RobertB,

Thanks for that. Maybe I will get Musc Creator 3 or 4. Don't mind spending $39. I was about to spend lots more on Sonar Producer anyway. (Probably before Christmas!)

I"ve never been able to midi sounds to come out of the UA25, when I use it as an output in Sonar It seems kind of funny to package LE with the UA25 then not include the software necessary to interface the two properly.

My needs are quite simple. I just record audio from mic / guitar and add a few midi tracks for percussion or other background effects. I make the midi tracks by setting an instrument patch and using the keyboard interface to draw the notes. Or paint patterns for percussion tracks. This is a bit tedious but I've been happy with the results. I've been using the synth on the (SoundMax) soundcard of my laptop as output, which comes with 100+ patches.

Does that usage sound like the Music Creator product? I've learned a lot about Sonar and if I could just get to export my full mix with the midi tracks, I'd be almost happy with the LE product. My only other prob with LE is that I can't seem to properly monitor my audio input - too much latency - but I manage.

-D

RobertB,
I read the Cake pages on Music Creator. Sounds just like the Sonar LE package I have, except it has the softsynths I need. Do you know of any serious limitations imposed?

Frankly, I find it a bit hard to differentiate the products - Music Creator, Home Studio and all the others - except by price. Would be nice if there was some kind of comparison chart. I think I will go ahead and purchase the Music Creator - hard to go wrong with the price and I think I can continue to use LE in any case.

-D