RustComposing
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Using Sonar X1 Essentials as a Sound mixer for Movies
Hello Cakewalk Community. I need some help I do music composing with Sonar x1 Essentials and also sound effects and need to mix them all together with the dialogue and the actual film. Now as i have seen before in many movies the sound mixing team uses a mixing board and lowers and raises the sounds to get it to what they want and maybe one track could be gun fire and another one something else. Is there a tool in the program to let me do that to have a mixing board to work with the levels of sound. I do not have a midi mixing board.. Any help would be awesome!!!
Thanks,
Ryan
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Jimbo 88
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Re:Using Sonar X1 Essentials as a Sound mixer for Movies
2012/02/06 18:36:05
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The simple answer is yes. There is a virtual mixing board. It is accessed in "Console View".
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RustComposing
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Re:Using Sonar X1 Essentials as a Sound mixer for Movies
2012/02/06 18:51:01
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Thx Jimbo 8! Now that I am in Console View where is the virtual mixer?
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Re:Using Sonar X1 Essentials as a Sound mixer for Movies
2012/02/06 19:43:12
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Rust,
I think you are getting too caught up in the details ... The virtual mixer means what to you? A GUI-style mixer? What are you looking for? Are you looking for the central hub of your music creation experience? Or are you just trying to refine an all-to-familiar craft inside of a new software experience ...
... try Alt-2
Did that bring up what you were looking for?
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Re:Using Sonar X1 Essentials as a Sound mixer for Movies
2012/02/06 20:20:52
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thomasabarnes
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Re:Using Sonar X1 Essentials as a Sound mixer for Movies
2012/02/06 20:33:20
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Now that I am in Console View where is the virtual mixer?
The Console View is the Mixer. The console view basicly has 3 sections: the track section, the Buss section, and the Hardware output section. You can only mix what you create in SONAR on two or more tracks or what you import to 2 or more tracks in SONAR. If you import a movie into SONAR (an .avi file or something like that) audio is only going to be on one track. You can't mix one track. If you make a project in SONAR, for example, and import a movie soundtrack on track 1, you can play that and when you get to a section of the movie soundtrack that you want to add a gunshot, you add that gunshot to track 2. Then using the Console view you use the sliders for track 1 and track 2 to get the level you want for each track. That is very basic mixing. And the Console View is appropriate for doing this mixing because the sliders for the tracks and busses are easily accessible in one view. If this is not what you thought a virtual mixer is, what did you think it is? A pic of the Console View below: 
post edited by thomasabarnes - 2012/02/06 20:58:49
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Re:Using Sonar X1 Essentials as a Sound mixer for Movies
2012/02/06 20:37:53
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Ryan, There is a learning curve to getting it to work like you want. With time and effort X1e will do a lot for you.
But..... it will take effort on your part to learn it.
Feel free to ask specific questions..... and be sure to watch the videos and work the tutorials to learn as much as quickly as possible. Then come here when you hit brick walls.
My website & music: www.herbhartley.com MC4/5/6/X1e.c, on a Custom DAW Focusrite Firewire Saffire Interface BMI/NSAI "Just as the blade chooses the warrior, so too, the song chooses the writer "
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RustComposing
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Re:Using Sonar X1 Essentials as a Sound mixer for Movies
2012/02/06 21:50:53
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Wow Thank you so much Thomasabarnes you helped me out a ton! I wasnt sure what the mixer was in sonar worked a little with it but know getting into film sound mixing and you really explained it all to me thats what I was looking for Thanks again. Ill send you a message if I have any questions as I go along..
Ryan
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Re:Using Sonar X1 Essentials as a Sound mixer for Movies
2012/02/06 22:07:39
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"It's not a song till it touches your heart. It's not a song till it tears you apart!" Lyrics of Amy Grant. SONAR Platinum X64 (jBridge), Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit, Core i7 990X Extreme Edition Processor 3.46 GHz 6 Cores, Gigabyte EX58-UD5, Crucial Ballistix 24GB 1333MHz DDR3 @1333 MHz, TASCAM UH-7000, Behringer X-Touch, EVGA GTX 980TI Superclocked 6GB, 1TB Samsung EVO 850 SSD, 150GB, 320GB, 1TB 7200rpm HDDs
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