Final Mix with external Synth? Sonar 4

This may be a stupid question but I've read the manual a couple of times and I still can't figure it out. I'm using Sonar 4.0.4

I have my MIDI tracks done. I have the audio tracks done. Now I want to create a CD so I need to make a WAV file. No problem there.

The problem is I use an external synth (Alesis QSR) and the sound from the synth goes to a seperate mixer to powered speakers or my headphone amp. The output from the sound card goes to the mixer so I can hear everything at once.

How does the sound from the QSR get captured by Sonar? Right now all it has is the MIDI data that it sends to the QSR. Do I feed it back in somehow?

I very new to this so please bear with me! Thanks!

Tony

Thanks!

I'm waiting on a Delta 1010LT so I'm using my sound card for now.

Be sure to do each track separately. That is record each MIDI track to its own audio track. This will mean muting MIDI tracks that should not be recorded with another track. Then you will have a multi track audio project that can be mixed. Now it is a bit tedious but the results are worth the effort. To be very clear you will need to record each track by itself. This will require you to go back each time and record the next track. To avoid this you would need a synth with multi outs and a audio card with multi ins. But at some point you will run out of audio channels and will need to use this technique but with fewer passes. Now if you simply record the total MIDI file as a stereo track then there can be no mixing. You are stuck with that as a your unmixed stereo file. It can be mastered but it wont be worth doing that.

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