EZ Drummer and Sonar

Yikes!

I stayed up waaaaay too late last night setting up a mixing template for Sonar by incorporating multi-tracks (for each drum element in EZ) and a lot of the routing and presets included in Jonas's Mixing Template. It made my brain hurt, but I plan to save this as a template I can use again and again.

I'm curious about what people do when using EZ in the multi-track cofiguration in Sonar.

During the mix process, do you ever bounce all of the EZ tracks to audio tracks or just leave them being triggered by the midi track (with effects applied to the various tracks) throughout the process? I'm inclined not to bother to ever bounce these down before the final mixdown.

Your thoughts?

I tend to put temporary EQ & FX on all my MIDI tracks while I'm building the song.

When it comes to mixing it, I'll bounce all the MIDI down to audio, WITHOUT EQ, FX or envelopes and start the mix again.

If I really like any of the settings, it's easy to save EQ & FX settings as a preset, then import thme into the audio tracks.

Once that's done, I just archive the MIDI & associated audio tracks to keep things more manageable in the track/console view.

Dave,

What is this Jonas's Mixing Template to which you refer?

I'm curious about what people do when using EZ in the multi-track cofiguration in Sonar.

During the mix process, do you ever bounce all of the EZ tracks to audio tracks or just leave them being triggered by the midi track (with effects applied to the various tracks) throughout the process? I'm inclined not to bother to ever bounce these down before the final mixdown.

I freeze them and then unbypass the effects bin to add effects. The effectsi/plugins i use are always different in every song, so i cant go into how i do it, unless you pick a specific song ive done.
Cj