NEED HELP - With exporting to audio file...

Okay, if my question is stupid, at least tell me.

Am just that kid with crazy talents that never touched a program and even dared before to make a studio at home. Or at least, tell me what am doing wrong, lol.

Nope, it still doesnt play.. wow, I don't understand. I tried all what you told me step by step, every track were highlighted yellow, and brown on the right. When I press play i can hear the music playing through my piano. But when I export it, it never plays, always silent. Or either it gives me a corrupt file that windows encountered a problem with.

Mm am at a lost really, dude, I can do music, but I can't sonar too well, haha.

I also tried sending the file to a friend, that couldnt hear it as well.
I have a midi-usb cable plugged both in and out into piano, and usb to laptop. When I close piano, I can't play the sound for the output of the sound seems to go directly unto the piano and not through the sound of the laptop speaker. Is it related?

Yeah... I was thinking you were using a soft synth internal to the project. If you are using the external keyboard and sending your midi data to it to produce the sound.....

What I told you would not work under that circumstance. Most people here use soft synths like TTS or some other, and that will work.

to do it your way you need to send the keyboard audio to an audio track. If you have multiple tracks, playing in the midi to keyboard thing.... you really need to set up TTS as a multi channel synth...
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Go to my website and look at the MC4/5 page HERE  and look down to the advanced TTS set up and see how to use TTS to play a number of different instruments at the same time.

What kind of tracks are you using? Simple instrument tracks (which are a combination of a MIDI and audio track) or a MIDI track and an audio track? In order to output to an audio file, an audio track must be used when you bounce/export to audio.

Having never used the MS Wavetable device for recording I'm not sure how this would work but it is how you can do it with softsynths like the TTS-1. Create a MIDI track with the UM-1G as its INPUT. Select the MS Wavetable device as the MIDI track's OUTPUT. Then create an AUDIO track and set the MS Wavetable device as the track's INPUT. So the data from the keyboard goes into the MIDI track, the MIDI track sends the data to the soft synth for processing, and the soft synth sends the data to the audio track so you can hear it. After you have recorded your MIDI data, select the MIDI Track and the AUDIO track and select Bounce to Track. That should result in a new audio track containing the sound of the soft synth playing your midi data.

For sure you will have better results using a good audio interface made for audio recording than you will using the audio interface built into your computer.

What version of Sonar software are you using?

I want to say there is some sort of issue with using a wavetable synth... but I don't recall exactly what it is. Something to do with exporting IIRC....

The fact that you are able to get the computer to play the music is good. TTS was an early favorite of mine. Playing with it taught me so much about midi and channels and all sorts of things.

The advanced tutorial show how to use ONE TTS to play up to 16 different instruments.. in the example I use less to keep it simple.

The next step is to look at the way the computer plays the music. It's OK to use the wavetable synth but you really should be looking for a better way to play the music.

In your audio devices, do you have any other options showing besides the wave table? If so, I'm thinking it's probably the computer soundcard..... if so try selecting it, use the MME driver and run the wave profiler in cake again. see if you get sound that way.

When you select tracks to export.... such as when exporting the TTS project I set up in that demo..... you must select at least ONE audio track in the group. That means the synth output track where TTS is located. Selecting just the midi tracks will not work.

Change the output from wave table to your soundcard/other option, and try exporting again.

The best option when working with any CAKEWALK product is to invest the money to buy a decent external midi/audio interface that connects to the computer by USB. Visit a higher end music store with a professional audio/recording department and talk to the people there. Expect to invest $100 to $200 (USD) to get a decent interface that lets you record and use the ASIO drivers, which are the better driver to use on music related stuff.

The whole point is... you're progressing, so keep at it. You will eventually get it solved.

Ji..... glad you got it working good.

You will discover, this is a journey, not necessarily a destination. So much to learn along the way.

Have fun, and post your stuff in the songs forum. That is one way to get multiple ears and thoughts on how to improve your craft.