No sound coming from Roland a-500s via Sonar LE

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2012/10/21 17:41:37 (permalink)

No sound coming from Roland a-500s via Sonar LE

 I am a newbie... I have a Roland a-500s, and trying to use Sonar LE. I DID have it up and running just fine. But then I used other programs for my job. (several!) Now, when I go back to Sonar LE, I cannot get sound coming out of my computer using the A-500s and Sonar LE. I DO get a midi file playing just fine out of Sonar LE. What am I missing?

Attempting to use midi keyboard controller to play piano after years of acoustic piano playing.
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    Kalle Rantaaho
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    Re:No sound coming from Roland a-500s via Sonar LE 2012/10/21 18:02:40 (permalink)
    A-500 is a MIDI-controller keyboard, so it can not produce sound. You need to use a soft synth in order to hear something.
    MIDI is like electronic notation. You need to have something to play the notation.

    The MIDI-file playback you hear comes most likely from the computers internal Wavetable synth.
    The basic idea is: You have a MIDI track with input from your keyboard and output to a soft synth, and an audio track with input from the soft synth and output to your sound card.

    I don't know what soft synths you got. Sometimes A-500) is sold with SONAR Production Pack, which includes soft synths, the basic LE is very sparse.

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