Axiom air mini 32

Author
Icky
Max Output Level: -90 dBFS
  • Total Posts : 4
  • Joined: 2014/05/21 11:22:51
  • Status: offline
2014/05/22 07:08:36 (permalink)

Axiom air mini 32

What up! Im new here and need some advice on making beats. I ve just bought a Axiom air mini 32 midi controller that im using with Sonar x1 studio. It seems to be a plug and play product thats fairly easy to use. I made a beat but I need advice on keeping them tempo of all the tracks in sync together. This is my first time trying to make beats so Any and All advice is welcomed.
#1

4 Replies Related Threads

    AT
    Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
    • Total Posts : 10654
    • Joined: 2004/01/09 10:42:46
    • Location: TeXaS
    • Status: offline
    Re: Axiom air mini 32 2014/05/22 11:40:12 (permalink)
    You made a beat?  Using what synth or soft synth and played from the Axiom controller?
     
    SONAR should keep the "beats" in tempo, as determined by, well the tempo SONAR is set at.  If you are using MIDI (played by the controller) it should be as tempo correct as you can play.  If you need to, you can go in and edit the notes - see the manual.
     
    If you are using audio Acidized files (groove clips in SONAR speak) they will match the tempo set by SONAR.
     
    Wave files won't - tho SONAR can turn them into groove clips.
     
    Hope this helps, but until you clarify what you are doing to make your beats all advice is pissing in the dark.
     
    @

    https://soundcloud.com/a-pleasure-dome
    http://www.bnoir-film.com/  
     
    there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
    24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
    #2
    Icky
    Max Output Level: -90 dBFS
    • Total Posts : 4
    • Joined: 2014/05/21 11:22:51
    • Status: offline
    Re: Axiom air mini 32 2014/05/22 14:20:27 (permalink)
    Thanks for the response! And sorry I couldnt put it in better words or explain it better. I simply tapped out a few bars using sounds from the cakewalk sound center that came with sonar. I tried to use other sounds I bought from beatport but I guess I didnt do it right. I then highlighted the clips and held down ctrl and dragged it to the right thinking I was creating groove clips but I was only copying the clips. So it didnt flow together. I hope this helps you so you can help me! Thanks again for the advice so far
    #3
    AT
    Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
    • Total Posts : 10654
    • Joined: 2004/01/09 10:42:46
    • Location: TeXaS
    • Status: offline
    Re: Axiom air mini 32 2014/05/23 01:16:10 (permalink)
    Sound Center is a soft synth.  So you were recording and playing back midi using a sample playback synth.
     
    Beatport looks to be a sample shop (I've never used it).  I imagine what you have there are plain ole wav sounds.  You should be able to drag them directly onto the timeline from the browser.  However, they will be laid in as wav files, so if you change the tempo they will change pitch.  Groove clipping them requires that you double click on the wav file on the timeline and a page will pop up.  This allows you to trim and input the measures/beats/pitch in (or have SONAR figure it out).  A wav file will have straight corner edges - a groove clip will have blunted corners.  You should read the help files to get a handle on groove-clipping.
     
    You don't need use ctrl to move sections of clips, just hold the mouse down to grab a section.  Do use the ctrl to add clips one at a time to the first highlighted one - and then let the ctrl go when you've highlighted all the clips you want to drag to a new location.
     
    You are on the right path - it is a lot to learn.  The good thing about SONAR is it follows most of the windows conventions, so a lot of mouse motions are instinctive. 

    https://soundcloud.com/a-pleasure-dome
    http://www.bnoir-film.com/  
     
    there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
    24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
    #4
    Icky
    Max Output Level: -90 dBFS
    • Total Posts : 4
    • Joined: 2014/05/21 11:22:51
    • Status: offline
    Re: Axiom air mini 32 2014/05/23 12:03:51 (permalink)
    Thanks- I really appreciate your help!
    #5
    Jump to:
    © 2024 APG vNext Commercial Version 5.1