exporting audio

When I export audio I seem to be getting a bit of unwelcome reverb (room) or something like it - particularly noticeable on drums with no reverb in them originally.  What could be causing this or is there a better way of transferring my projects?

Sometimes reverb and ambiance are exaggerated in the final mix due to limiting on the master bus. Studios are also typically deader than other listening spaces, so what sounds like a tasteful level of ambiance in the studio may sound muddy by comparison elsewhere. You may need to mix a little drier in order to achieve the right amount of reverberation in the final product.

But as for reverb magically appearing just due to the method of exporting, that won't happen, as CJ said.

Input echo?
 
*OLD THREAD ALERT*

I think you need to do three things:
 
1. Set Local Control OFF on the Kurzweil so that it only responds to MIDI played or echoed back to it from SONAR.
2. Leave the Merge/Thru button in the Merge position.
3. Enable Input Echo on the MIDI track in SONAR, either by clicking it or relying on the Always Echo Current MIDI Track option in Preferences (enabled by default).
 
If that doesn't get it, please clarify: Is it only the metronome click that's echoing, or only what you play on the keyboard or both? And are you using the MIDI or Audio metronome?

That brings up some more questions:
 
1. Do you have the keyboard connected to by both USB to the PC and MIDI DIN cables to the M-Audio? You should choose one or the other.
2. If SONAR can't see the M-Audio's MIDI ports, you might need to restart your PC with the interface powered up.
3. When you say "reverb" do you really mean the drums sounds have ambience on them, or do you mean you're getting a slapback delay by MIDI messages being doubled?
4. We're talking about drum sounds from your Kurzweil, not a soft synth in SONAR, correct?
 
I've been making the assumption that you're trying to use your Kurzweil as a sound source, but maybe you should clarify exactly what you're tying to do.
 
Input echo means incoming MIDI messages (or audio in the case of an audio) are "echoed" (i.e. passed on) to the track's output. This is how you would normally incorporate a keyboard synth's audio into your setup - by having a MIDI track that receives and echos MIDI back to the keyboard synth with an audio track receiving and echoing the synth's audio output to your monitors. You turn Local OFF on the keyboard so that you don't get doubling of the MIDI messages to the keyboards' synth module while performing, and so you can use the keyboard as a controller to play a soft synth without also having the keyboard's synth generating audio by local control.
 
 
 
 

I am only using a Kurzweil PC3LE8 for sound-generation.
 
I had a PC88Mx and I replaced it with this one.  But to my surprise, the PC88Mx has some sounds that are not available on the newer model;  so I intend to get another PC88Mx.  Then I will work with two keyboards.
 
John