Still missing. You can record the MIDI in real time but not the audio. This is a 2 year old thread. You would have been better off starting a new one.

Really ? perhaps it will come one day ?

jih64
Really ? perhaps it will come one day ?

It's a good thing that you can, because recording and editing midi there is awful. Don't get me wrong, there is a lot to like, but midi is a huge weakness for those of us who need use it.
 
Regards,
Dan

Agree with most of this. This is meat and potatos functionality that is missing.

It seems so logical to do this that I suspect there was a problem within Sonar's code that made doing this problematic so they consciously took away the record button to at least keep the code from crashing. I'm sure if that was the case it was done with trepidation.
 
If it were a simple thing, it would have been added to the icing on the cake in Foxboro instead of a (midi cable review?)
 
Just supposing.
 

Do any other DAW's out there allow a VST synth to be recorded in real-time?

Ableton

Yup.  That's what I though too but wasn't sure.
 
Well, maybe Sonar will release the feature, in the Charlie-Delta-Tango-Roger-Echo update.

maybe I am missing something here- I probably am- but when I 1st got sonar i was quite stumped and dismayed at being unable to record the audio I was hearing whilst tweaking Zeta+2- just the midi stuff. I found asio4all mentioned on other threads here and elsewhere and used the virtual line in on a bus to go back to an audio track that I recorded which then audio out to the master. So I managed to build up layering different tracks thus. I got an akai eie pro too to use the loopback- but I have blue screen issues cropping up and worry about hdd damage caused by hard crashes.
Bottom line is it (asio4all) seems to have done the job for me- but isn't this what you pros and veterans have been doing but using better hardware to record audio from either hard instrument or loopback soft synth ?
 
Sorry, but this thread got me feeling pretty confused about things right now
 
(I got Scott G.s X2 and X3 Power books to guide me in the beginning, but ashamedly I have to admit I find it is more fun to make noise than reading how to). Hope no one is offended. 

For softwRe synths I just track the MIDi then bounce the tracks. Never looped one back through the interface, never needed to.

Remember that the software synth is entirely controlled by MIDI (as are all the functions on quite a few hardware synths) so the recorded MIDI is as complete a record of the performance as the output of the synth is.

As for ASIO4ALL if your interface manufacturer supplies an ASIO driver use that not ASIO4ALL. ASIO4ALL is a hack to try and fool the Windows WDM drover into acting like an ASIO driver. It's intended as a last resort for when the sound card has no other ASIO driver available, such as the sound chips on many motherboards or built into laptops, ASIO4ALL is difficult to configure and can cause all kinds of problems itself and with genuine ASIO drivers as well.