Sonar won't recognize my synthesizer.

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2015/09/01 21:39:24 (permalink)

Sonar won't recognize my synthesizer.

So, for the past 3-4 months I have been using a Korg Krome to create some instrumentals/beats for myself and some friends. I have had a working set-up going for these past few months but recently I wanted to try to turn my synthesizer into a midi keyboard and I'm not sure if that just screwed up my whole program or not.
I have two instrumental cables going from the Krome into a Lexicon external soundcard, for the left and the right. From the lexicon I have a usb going into my computer, along with a usb going from the Krome to my laptop. Everything has worked wonderful.
So now, I go on this morning and before opening sonar, everything worked fine as usual. On the Krome is senses me playing the notes like usual. The master on the Krome is going up and down. I plug in my lexicon to my computer and I put my headphones into the lexicon, and hear it going through that like normal. The average time of me setting up to make something-
 
Then I open sonar, and now my piano does not have the master going up and down. It doesn't show any note being played, and it does not make any sound as if it was. Sonar itself is not showing any sounds being played either. The settings are set to how they normally are. I have the input and output set to the ASIO in and out. Under MIDI and "devices" there is my Krome listed, and selected, like usual. Basically everything is set up like how it is supposed to be, but there is no sound being recognized on sonar, or the piano, once I open Sonar up.
 
Now, I have FL Studio as well which I don't really use anymore, but I went on there, and I got everything working normally. FL Studio sensed the sounds as well as it did on my Krome, and it recorded fine. I just can't seem to think of why it just all fails the minute I open Sonar when I have had it working perfectly fine for months. 
 
My only thought it that it has something to do with me trying to turn my Krome into a Midi keyboard, but I don't recall touching any weird settings. All I had done, was tried to insert a soft synth- and found none in there, except for one, but I couldn't get it to work. I believe I un-hooked the instrument cables to get the synthesizer to not send sound over to sonar, but once I lost interest in using it at a Midi keyboard, I hooked it back up during the same session (without closing the program, I believe) and was able to use it fine. However, the next day (today) I open it up and now it just wont work? It doesn't make much sense but I'm hoping somebody here knows what could be wrong.
 
Any responses are helpful. Thank you.
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    brundlefly
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    Re: Sonar won't recognize my synthesizer. 2015/09/02 02:13:26 (permalink)
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    I believe I un-hooked the instrument cables to get the synthesizer to not send sound over to sonar, but once I lost interest in using it at a Midi keyboard, I hooked it back up during the same session (without closing the program, I believe) and was able to use it fine. However, the next day (today) I open it up and now it just wont work? It doesn't make much sense but I'm hoping somebody here knows what could be wrong.



     
    It sounds like SONAR is sending Local Control Off message to the keyboard at startup, but it doesn't normally do this by default.
     
    To check this, find TTSSEQ.INI in C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Cakewalk\SONAR Platinum
     
    Open the file in Notepad, and look for SendLocalOff=1. If you find it, you can change the 1 to a 0, and save the file.
     
    That said, usually you will want to have local control disabled, and treat a keyboard synth as a separate keyboard and sound module, using a MIDI track with Input Echo enabled to echo live MIDI input back to the synth when you want to play it's onboard synth. This lets you use the keyboard synth as a MIDI controller for other synths (whether hardware or software) without always having the keyboard's onboard synth generating audio by local control. all you have to do is disable Input Echo on the MIDI track 9or not even have a MIDI track) that outputs back to the keyboard's MIDI port.
     
     

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    Re: Sonar won't recognize my synthesizer. 2015/09/02 15:19:08 (permalink)
    Assuming it's USB midi try different USB sockets.

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