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2016/01/19 17:21:32
frkfir
Please Help!
I'm new in sonar and I can't understand, after I choose from "Plugins" tab --> Instrument --> String Section -->
On popup window I checkd "Simple instrument track" and "Synth property page".
Now, I can see the SI-String Section with the violin cello and Bass, --> I arm my track for recording, and click on "rec",
Now how I actually record what I play on keayboed ot take some of the examples in this window???
2016/01/19 18:45:41
Jesse G
Insert the SI strings Synth.  When the Insert Soft Synth options page opens, select Simple Instrument.
 
The Simple Instrument properties page will open and you can see the instrument.
 
Click the + symbol next to each genre name to reveal the patterns beneath each one.
 
Double click each one to test it and click Stop button to stop playback.  
 
If you like the pattern, you can click and drag it to the Simple Instrument track and keep adding others if you like.
 
If you want to record the sounds you hear with your midi keyboard, Arm the Simple instrument track, click the sound you like and leave it, then click the record button  and start recording it with your midi Keyboard.
 
Done.
 
 
 
2016/01/20 02:51:03
frkfir
I've already done all the steps you told me.
But the stage where I want, for example, click on record, and I'll play what I want on the keyboard and it will record, it does not work for me.
I don't necessarily want something that is already ready in sonar.
I play with a mouse on the keyboard in the Strings window, because currently I don't have MIDI keyboard.
2016/01/20 03:58:31
rebel007
Would the 'Piano Role View' work better for you? It's a great way of inserting on a note by note basis using the mouse or computer keyboard.
2016/01/20 04:43:14
frkfir
Wait,
Before I get into what's what better to me and how
I need to understand, how to use and record this instruments in sonar.
I want specifically the sound of the Strings section.
 
Whay when I arm the string track and then click "R" or Record buttin and play somthing, 
it doesnt place it on the track, its stay blank.
 
Maybe I need to set something like input/output on the the specific track before I strat usung it? (like I do before I start to record my guitar ot my mic).
 
I really need an answer here, because it just stuck me to keep working!!!
2016/01/20 06:26:43
ChazEd
What version of Sonar you have?
 
You can't record notes played on the built in keyboard in String Section, AFAIK.
 
If you don't have a midi keyboard, then use the Virtual Controller / Keyboard (Only on Sonar 2015 / MC 7, AKAIK).
 
Or use the piano roll.
 
Hope this helps.
2016/01/20 06:33:15
frkfir
I'm using for now Sonar LE.
I'm new in this software.
 
Where is what you said :
"Virtual Controller / Keyboard Or the piano roll."??
Where is it on thw softwaer and how to use it??
 
I really can't record my own notes when I press the keyboard that appears on the screen in "String section" with my mouse??
 
 
2016/01/20 06:49:39
ChazEd
frkfir
I'm using for now Sonar LE.
I'm new in this software.
 
Where is what you said :
"Virtual Controller / Keyboard Or the piano roll."??
Where is it on thw softwaer and how to use it??
 
I really can't record my own notes when I press the keyboard that appears on the screen in "String section" with my mouse??
 

 
Only latest versions of Sonar / MC have the Virtual Controller / Keyboard feature.
 
I've tested String Section, Rapture Pro, Lounge Lizard Session 4, MinimoogV and Korg M1. None of them record notes from the built in keyboard.
 
I've tested MinimoogV in Ableton Live 8, and can't record there too.
 
Piano roll is the way to go, in your case.
 
Hope this helps.
2016/01/20 08:18:55
frkfir
And if I have "Roland E9" keyboard, I can pluged her thru my Tascam sound card, and use it like MIDI keybord?
(I have input MIDI on my sound card and I have output MIDI on my Keyboerd)
Then I will sucsess to add my notes to track in String Section?
2016/01/20 08:41:22
Slugbaby
That sounds like it will work.
Make sure you record the data from your MIDI Keyboard to the MIDI track feeding the synth.
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