Sonar 8.5.1 Won't play

Is there any MIDI data in the MIDI track?

Hi-

After Step 4- What are you using as the MIDI source -- a .mid file, presumably?

You can always load a demo like "Downtown.cwp" and route everything to the TTS-1, then to your Master Bus or audio outs to make sure everything's working.

-Susan

The problem seems to be that when I press play, absolutely nothing happens - almost like it is frozen, but it's not.

Whenever I insert a midi track, it's like the play function stops working?

Is there nobody that can help me with this?

Uh, we've been trying, but you haven't given us a lot to go on! How about responding directly to strikingly's or my suggestions? Can you load and play a demo project? Can you audition a sound from TTS-1 once it's loaded? Is Input Echo on on your MIDI track?

Help us help you!

-Susan

Do tutorials 2, 4 and 8 and read the chapter on soft synths. This will get you started and playing soft synths with midi data.
There is no shortcut to learning it. Youll only help yourself by taking an hours and going over the recommended tutorials and reading of the chapters pertaining to soft synths.

We all did it and most did it more than 5 times to get it right
Cj

You need to insert the synth with the synth rack or with the insert menu, using the insert soft synth function.
If you want to manually insert synths, youll need to know the routing first. so do it that way then look at the routing and see how it works, then if you want you can do it manually.

First of all, its hard to help you if you don't tell us what soundcard you have.

Second, why are you using ASIO4ALL? Use the driver that is meant for your soundcard.

Hi Thomas-

this just grates my ****, you know?! :)

I know you come across as a petulant teenager with all your "WTF" nonsense, but no, I don't know what **** in particular this grates.

-Susan

:P

Well at least we know the sound is getting through

Are the midi files placed on the midi track?

Can you spare a minute to tell us what the problem was?

-Susan

I still don't know what the exact problem was - it only occurred when I opened a blank template. No matter how efficiently I routed my tracks, etc, the play function would not work (also, as soon as I would open the blank template, a "warning" message about gs wavelab synth would appear, warning me that it was not enabled) - this made me curious, as I had never had this problem or "glitch" before. I turned gs wavelab synth off in the midi devices panel and opted for my usual Asio driver - but still, no reaction from Sonar when I pressed play.

I opened a demo track and suddenly everything was working perfectly. SO, either I am overlooking a large mistake that I was continuously making, or something has gone haywire with my templates. However, the simple solution was to open a demo file, erase all of the tracks contained within it, and to save that as a template for future use. Seems to be working beautifully. So I thank you all for that suggestion.

The actual "internal" workings of the problem are still unknown - I have no idea why the play function would bum out, because I compared all of the settings from the default blank template and the demo, they all seem to check out (the audio and midi settings, the routing of tracks, the inputs and outputs, are all the same, I even experimented with latency, bitrate, etc, but to no avail) - but the solution, for the meantime, seems simple enough. Just open a demo (I opened a pentatonic scale demo); once the demo loads up, delete all of the tracks within the demo (although I saved it with TTS-1 and DFH inserted as soft-synths so that I wouldn't have to open them every time I start a project, just for ease of use), and save it as a template for future use - I called this template "Midi Setup - DFH + TTS-1". So now when I start a new project I use that template - you can tweak the demo file as much as you want. But yes, the solution seems to be NOT using the default blank template.