Vocals on right side after export

did you check the pans on the tracks that are to the right???. Its a good idea on telling us what you did so far to troubleshoot it or youll get the most abvious remarks first
Cj

Well, first of all, I have to tell you that sonar 5 is the "buggest" version of all. Crazy things happened to me until I changed to sonar 6.
Now, try to change the last icon in the bottom of your track (below input/output). The icon is a speaker (when mono) and two speakers facing opposite sides (when stereo). Maybe it helps.

ORIGINAL: glover54

This might be my not undestanding, but I did move the pan. before expoting to mp3, I moved the pan to he right, and the vocals cut out. When moved pan to center, they came back. Unfortauntely I do not know enough to try and trobleshoot. So I am not sure what to try next.

If you move the pan to the right the vocals cut out. so this means you recorded the vocals on just one side then. You may have recorded the vocals with the wrong pan settings in the first place. its hard to say. i would definitly read up on mixing and recording techniques so you can have an idea on what your doing when recording. This isnt a sonar problem per say, but its just your unexperienced and your going to need to get your feet wet with alot of reading and practicing different techiniques. Good luck
Cj

This is the hardware flow

Here is the IN
Shure mic to Studio Projects VTB1 "Mic IN" (Three prong, not sure what the name of the connector is)
VTB1 TRS "Line OUT" to M-Audio 44 Line IN 1
M-Audio 44 to Computer card
Record to cakewalk

Here is the OUT
Computer to M-Audio 44
M-Audio Line OUT 1 and 2 (TRS) to XENYX 802 mixer Line IN 1 and 2
XENYX 802 mixer Main Out (TRS) to Rokit5 speakers (2 of them)

Looking at the image
http://www.ebiz-marketing.com/images/cw_maudio1.jpg
I did try the Stereo link but that did not produce stereo. Only one side of the bars would move.
It certainly appears m-audio is recording mono (one side) so cakewalk is recording mono (one side)

I tried to record with the pan center, left, right. I either received no input or only one side.

A microphone is a mono source so record it on a mono track and then you can pan it anyway you want. To record it on a mono track, select a mono input on your soundcard, i.e., M-Audio L or M-Audio 1.

Its probably cutting out because of how you're monitoring. Perhaps you don't have a right side output sent to your moniotrs.

ORIGINAL: glover54

OK, so it is recording as mono. But the pan does not seem to provide the effect one would assume. As I mentioned, I moved the pan to the right, the vocals cut out, when I move the pan to center, they come back.
From what I have read, I should be able to move the pan to shift the sound from one side to another. It is not doing this.

what is yout input sourse?? mono left, mono right, stereo??? how about going over everything in detail on how your recording this and dont leave out nothing.
Cj

CJ
Great idea
I will create a new song, create a few measures of some midi and vocals. I will write down step by step what I do and see if the forum experts can figure out what I am doing wrong. I do assume it is me.
I really do appreciate everyone's efforts.... and especially patience..

I love this kind of troubleshooting..

do you only have these problems on the other computersystem ?
what happens when you playback on your own machine through sonar?

Does anyone think that it might be an issue not on playback but on recording as mono?

absolutely!
You should record the vocals in MONO!!!
I see on your 1st screenshot that you chose "STEREO M-Audio Delta.." - that's your 1st mistake !
you could
a.) bounce this stereotrack to two mono tracks and delete the original + the empty track (right chanel)
b.) press the "mono" button (over the M S R Buttons), if I remember you should now be able to pan the vocals in the stereo field.. but you cant use stereoeffects on that track..
c.) re-record in mono
We were discussing lately sonars pan "situation".. and it's working exactly opposite to what you expect..
wenn you "pan" the volume of one channel decreases.. if you have a look at your stereo-track you see that the right channel is not having any audio-information.. so panning to the right would mean:
sonar decreases the left channels volume.. playing only the right channel (which is pure silence!), if you turn the other way your vocals come back..

You should also use a master-bus where all your tracks go to..

When you export you don't start moving anything.. export means you are done with your mix!
And when you listen to the mp3/wav-file it should be exactly the same as you would hear it play within sonar..
How do you export ?
ctrl-a (select all)
now go to the export menu..
1st(!!!) select the preset "what you hear", then the fileformat, then the location where to save it..

jimack - I used the bounce to track and it worked great.

Frank Haas - I export exactly the steps you stated.
Based on your explanation, I now understand why the pan cut out when moving to the right, because I recorded in stereo and there was nothing in the right.

But now based on that, I recorded a new track in mono. I assume that if I pan to the right, I would hear more volume on the right speaker, and the same with the left. But it seems that the right diminishes the volume in both speakers. Left does not really increase, it is the same as center. How then can I send more volume to one speaker and less to the other?

I think we are closer, hang in there with me guys, you are saving clumps of hair I would be pulling out.

just read the manual..

I think.. it's in your M-Audio Control Panel
-> Hardware Settings
-> Multitrack Driver Devices -> Independent

After switching to "independent".. check your input-options in Sonar again.. look if there's a "left"/"right" entry..

Some users here have an M-Audio Card.. they can tell us if that's the way to go.. I never had an M-Audio Card in my fingers.. so that's as far as I can help you