No MIDI sound.......!!!! HELP!!!!

DMX6 Fire MIDI is the MIDI connector on your soundcard. If it is not hooked up to an outboard synth or other soundsource, the signal is just dying. You need to have external gear hooked up to your soundcard's MIDI ports, or you need to insert a softsynth within SONAR (Insert>Softsynth>) and use that as the output. You can also right click on the effects bin of an audio track and insert a softsynth that way, making sure the MIDI track output is set to that synth. This is all in the manual and the help file and the longer .pdf manual on the DVD.

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For playback of a basic midi file you can insert the Cakewalk TTS-1 softsynth that comes with Sonar. Then select the Cakewalk TTS-1 output port on your midi tracks instead of Fire Midi out.

Sven

herring367


My solution was pretty simple - I just went to OPTIONS --> AUDIO --> ADVANCED --> and then changed my DRIVER MODE to MME (32 Bit). Then my midis played just fine.

Sorry, but your simple solution was the weakest possible. Instead  it would have been worth it doing the tutorials about using soft synths.
 
You are now using the poorest possible drivers and poorest possible sounds, MS Wavetable synth. Inserting TTS-1 or other soft synths you'll get more and better sounds. 
 
It is also possible the MME defaulted to your crappy integrted soundchipinsted of your Terratec.
 
The 1500 page manual on your DVD is worth reading, if you ever want to use even close to the full potential of SONAR.

Herring, I hope you followed the advice on this thread - You don't want to be stuck with the sounds you managed to finally get, because those are just a low quality set of General MIDI sounds on your computer's sound card.  You have Sonar, with a lot of great synths available to you - Go back to Asio drivers and follow the instructions on this thread so you can start benefiting from having Sonar.

Randy B.

RobertB


Anybody else notice that "herring" has provided the same ill-advised solution for two threads from four years ago?

Hey wow, good call, Robert - Interesting.  SO, "Evilnanouk"--let us know how you're doing.  Don't settle for PC GM sounds on your built-in card as Herring suggested.

RB