ORIGINAL: Steelhed
here's the chain of events, I hit a not on my Radium Keyboard, the sound goes into my soundcard, out my soundcard through my breakout box to a physical mixer and then to my headphones, It all works great that way, But its not making it to the sequencer for some reason..

Just to make sure, do you have any midi cables hooked up? You were only referring to sound there. Like someone else mentioned, when you hit a note on the keyboard, do you see the midi indicator light up (lower right corner of Sonar)? That will at least tell you if the midi signal is at least making it to Sonar.

aha... maybe that's the problem. i've been trying to get k2 to work with the violin ensemble. it has about nine instruments. are you saying i have to go into each of the tracks that appear in sonar when i insert k2 and make some sort of adjustment? sorry for being so f'n dumb.

Yes FwordNA,

You should have one and only one midi track in Sonar that coresponds to each instrument in K2 (unless you have a specific reason to do so). You need to make sure each instrument in K2 has it's own seperate midi channel under "Port-A".

If you have 9 instruments in K2 and want to use all of them then you need 9 seperate midi tracks in Sonar to play each one back. In Sonar you need to make sure the output of each misi track is set to Kontakt-2 and then set the coresponding midi channel to go to the appropriate instrument in K2.

T.S.

TS, thank you for your info. I'm going to try all these suggestions first chance I get. Steelhed may be posting some screen shots that should help the discussion along. The layering of K2 over Sonar 4, for me at least, greatly expands the complexity of the input output configuration (kind of analogous with the way 3-D chess complicates basic chess) and, sadly, neither K2 nor Sonar 4 has elected to address these complications in their manual. And so this forum becomes a sky hook, deus ex machina, that can perhaps pull some of us having problems out of the abyss.

I havent seen this mentioned yet so I thought I'd throw this out there.

I have a hunch that what you may be doing is previewing the samples but not truly loading them which is why you hear them in Kontakt but not in Sonar.

Try this;

First set your controller to "omni out" temporariliy so we can ensure that Kontakt is listening for any and all channels.

Next browse a sample in Kontakt and click on it. It will appear to load, and the instrument name will appear with a wrench next to it. What you have actually done here is cue'd up the sample bank not the samples themselves

Click on the wrench. Now in the panel just below the instrument name on the right, you will see a "purge" icon, and a dropdown arrow next to it. Below will be three bars. If the bar on the left is red, your sample is cue'd in a bank, but not truly loaded.

Choose "re-load all samples" from the drop-down, and if my hunch is right you should be all set. A green light should appear meaning your sample is locked and loaded.

If the green light is on but still nopsound is heard max the volume on the channel and hold the note for a while (some of these samples have very sloooow attack times.

Hope that helps

darn... I tried it. I have the green light but no sound. I have the input in sonar set to omni. the output in sonar is K2. In K2, below the instrument name, I have output set to st. 1 and the midi channel set to omni. The green light under the purge button is green (the one on the right; the other two adjacent retangular buttons are unlighted). No sound. But the midi ch icon is flashing to let me know its getting a midi signal -- I guess that's what the flashing means. Ok, now I'm official exasperated.

make sure your controller is transmitting on all channels, and as a poster mentioned previously that K2 is listening to the channels on port "A"

Thank you. When you mention my "controller", are you referring to sonar or k2? also, in case this matters, I've opened a midi file in sonar, I'm not playing or recording a midi device through (into?) my daw.

Fword, if it still doesn't work, what I'll do (when I get home) is load a K2 track from absolute ground zero, record the steps I took and post them here.
In this way we should be able to isloate where the proccess is failing for you because I'll know exactly how you are configured (at least as far as the software goes)

Happy to help. Have fun..it's a fine peice of software.