Bill Jackson [Cakewalk]
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Indeed... and thank you for your continued efforts making all this clearer and more flexible. It's been great.
 
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Ah, you're right in that it's cool and something interesting to do and learn so thanks for that.
 
There are also many different ways in sonar to "skin the cat." For individual kit pieces that I want to work with in audio, like a kick or a snare or whatever. If I have it in AD2, you can mute everything but what you want. So separate your midi into different tracks, mute everything but the piece you want, then freeze the synth. 
 
That creates an audio track with the selected kit piece in it, bounce that track to a new track, unfreeze the synth. 
 
Now you have an audio track of the kit piece like you wanted by replacing it in DR. 

You also still have the synth, the midi tracks, and lots of choices available. Just another way to do the same thing. 
 
Like you, I do like to understand all these choices. I feel like I have attained a masters degree in sonar the past few years. Most of it learned from this forum, so all good!!
 
gabo

How do you drag DR into a track?

Drag the DR Region FX clip to the MIDI track.

Hold down the shift key while you're dragging and it won't accidentally slide left/right so it stays in perfect time with the original.  
 
Also, in DR editor, down in the lower right corner you can select the midi note it creates. You can't pick any note, so if you want some note not listed you'll have to transpose after you get it in the midi track.
 
gabo

Thanks scook.
 
How to you know what the midi note value is?
 
Where do I look in AD2 to know what the midi note of a kick sample is, before I play it and then drag the .wav file to DR?
 
 

Open AD2, at the top you'll see a row of menu items, the last menu item is a ?
 
Click on the ? and the top menu entry is "Map Window" The map window shows you all the midi mappings.

Cool, thanks.