Midi Functionality
Hopefully someone can help me with this...
I'm using Sonar 4 and I have an Aardvark Direct Pro 24/96 as my i/o-sound card-recording device. It has 4 inputs and 4 outputs. I also have a Sound Blaster Live in my PC.
So... I'm creating a click track by selecting the input as a midi bell sound from my SBlive, and then going to the piano roll screen to lay down the track. I use this method because I find it easier to manage the click for my drummer by being able to move certain clicks/slow them down in sections, plus I have volume control, and I just like working with a track rather than a metronome. (although if anyone has any suggestions for any interesting/better click track methods - I'm all ears)
Now, here's where I get confused (I guess I don't get the concept of how midi works) if I select my output for that midi track as my SBLive everything's fine, I can hear it coming out of my PC speakers... but when I choose my Aardvark... Nothing, it won't output to it, so I can't route the click to my drummer through the headphone output of the Aardvark. Mind you, when I select the Aardvark as the output for any audio track, everything's fine - but I just use Master as the output. I notice there is no 'master' for midi... why is that? I just want that sound to go to output I tell it...
I would hate to have to convert the midi to audio to start this recording...