Wish I'd had seen this earlier. Could have saved a 100 or so posts. Unless I missed something...
 
The track in question appears to be just a synth audio output track. Where's the MIDI track that's driving it? If Maschine is being played from its front panel, and no MIDI output is being recorded all you can get is a waveform preview. You need to record MIDI on a track pointing to Maschine, and then you'll have something to freeze (i.e. render to audio).

> Where's the MIDI track that's driving it?
Maschine synth is driving it (track 13) it's syncing up with Sonar.


> If Maschine is being played from its front panel, and no MIDI output is being recorded all you can get is a waveform preview
There is no issue at all say with Maschine controller mode say triggering Addictive drums softsynth, but I'm not in controller mode, I'm using a sequenced demo pattern from the maschine softsynth (track 17). Maschine softsynth is playing along to Sonar. In fact I don't even need to have the Maschine switched on.
 
thanks...
 

CakeAlexS
Nope you can't do any of this with "waveform preview". You can't even drag.

That's not what I said, I said you can drag loops FROM MASCHINE straight onto an audio track (or midi track, depending on how you've configured Maschine). It may not work for what you want to do but that's what I do and it works pretty well for me.

Noexcuses
Make sure the track is selected (Just as in your picture), go to the clips pane menu, click on "tracks", then "bounce to Track(s)".  You'll get a pop-up menu. Under "source category", select "tracks". De-select all tracks but the one(s). that you want bounced to audio. At least one selection is needed. The rest should be easy from there.
 
If you freeze, you can add fx and all, but I don't believe that fx stick once you mixdown the entire song. 

Yup thanks but see #33 :)

Correct.  Pardon any incorrect info.  I'm not in front of my machine, I'm speaking from memory. One thing I forgot to mention is that you may have to have some kind waveform preview first before a mixdown can be done.  If I'm not mistaken, it may not work unless you have at least some preview.  Works for me on every synth I insert. I don't think you can record to a synth track.  What's happening is, you're triggering the instrument(s) on its corresponding track through midi messages (midi track created with the inserted synth).  During playback the midi track triggers the synth on the different tracks and generates the waveform preview.  Normally, the midi track driving the outputs is the last track if the midi option is selected in the synth dialog box.
 
I was not a soft-synth fan, until last year when I had to learn Logic. I was forced to learn this "bounce to track" thing.  Prior production was all done with hardware synth rack modules.
 
I've use this this method heavily w/ Addictive Drums for about 1 year now.
 
Good luck!

CakeAlexS
 I guess I'm going to have to work around this with a plugin. Any suggestions?

http://hgsounds.com/product/hgs-wav-recorder-vst-plugin/ is one

> As such its just a UI representation of the past meter output and cannot be copied.

Thanks Noal....
#33 - How come I'm able to bounce this meter to another track and play it back as a clip? :) I must be smoking

Familiar with the concept of metering (esp with the good 'old days of tape), however more smoking...
 
> Alex, when you bounce it to another track your are materializing the data... writing it to disk

But it's a meter? It's not data apparently, it is just a graph of audio for reference, not data :).
BUT THEN... Oh but I can bounce it - so it is data (well hidden away somewhere in the depths of the machine!) So materialize basically means we can magic this from thin air ! :)

OK Just like that! (Not like this - like that!) - Sorry only UK people will get this line...
 
At the end of day what I'm seeing is, it is totally possible that we can get these outputs into a clip within a Sonar audio track in realtime (after all the sound data doesn't come from thin air otherwise we could not bounce), but right now the Sonar functionality doesn't go that far? Correct?
 
As Scook says...
 
SONAR cannot record plug-in effect or synth output without a plug-in recorder in the FX bin to save the output to a wave file outside of SONAR or use a loopback through the audio interface.
 
So time to file a feature request?
 
Would that be right? Noel?
 
Thanks
 
Alex

CakeAlexS
Thanks Noal....

 
 

CakeAlexS
Would that be right? Noal?

 
Who or what is a Noal?

Sorry Noel my bad (I forget it's XMAS). Corrected...
 

 
 
 
And don't call me Shirley.

Don't call me Sharke

Anyway apologies for getting the names of TWO people wrong I shall now hide my head in shame.

Anyway as this doesn't seem to be going any further I've logged it as a feature request, I guess I could start another thread when it comes to workarounds if necessary.
 
Thankyou very much everybody for your help, especially the people who I spelllt the name of wrong.
Now filing in a feature request....

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
Waveform preview on synth tracks and buses is essentially a fancy historical representation of a meter. It was an idea I cooked up way back in 2003 as an extension of confidence recording. It captures the historical metering data and plots it horizontally on the track so it looks like a waveform, when in reality its the peak output from the meter :)
As such its just a UI representation of the past meter output and cannot be copied.

From the X2 manual :
 
"A synth [audio,midi,buss] track can display a waveform preview of its output. When you enable this display function by clicking the XXX button on the track strip, the amplitude of a synth track's audio signal is graphed in real time as a waveform."
 
I don't see the [waveform] button anywhere, neither in X2 nor in the pictures in the manual. 
Has it been removed ?
 
Turning waveform preview on and off in Preferences doesn't change this.
 

It is a feature in X2. The preview button. located just to the right of the solo button, is only on Audio tracks which receive input from a plug-in and Busses.