keep in mind, you are using the midi from your alesis to trigger the parts of your song, meaning you don't need to write your parts out in the piano roll or sonar in anyway.
matter of fact you can arrange the whole song in your alesis and then press play and record the whole performance using sonars session drummer or studio drums, or any other virtual drum software.
I used to do it this way but I finally realized sonars prv can be utilized to make much real sounding drums by editing everything in the piano roll.
heres another video about writing your parts in sonar's piano roll view:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruAnAPR6-hQ if you have studio drums and not session drummer 3 than use this video to set it up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k83UVo1OiKA this three part series on drum editing, triggering and midi usuage is all focused on drums. enjoy !!!
by the way session drummer or studio drums does a much better job at panning the drums because each drum has its own pan control in the GUI or the VSTI.
if you decide to use your alesis, its easy.
just hook it up midi, the pan the drums in the spectrum using the panning modules where the kit pieces are laid out on the kit.
you must and I say you must, enter the world of midi in order to accomplish drum recording using a drum machine, it will be in synch with the metro done for easy editing.
but seriously, if your doing any midi drum stuff, midi is the only way to go. if your soundcard doesn't have midi capabilitys then buy a midisport uno usb(they're like 15 to 20 bucks.
plug your drum machine into it/then usb plugs in.
good luck
post edited by chuckebaby - 2013/03/27 20:56:07