I've learned a lot through this forum over the last week or so working with Addictive Drums and Sonar X3, so thanks to everyone who takes the time to help out those of us who are just learning these things. It is appreciated.
I feel like I have one more mental hurdle to cross with Addictive Drums.
I've added AD to my project in a couple different ways while experimenting. The first was as a simple instrument, and the sound here was fantastic, each kit sounding exactly like it does on the AD interface, i.e., great stereo sounding drums.
Wanting to have more control over each kit piece within Sonar X3, I followed the AD guidelines from their web site and inserted AD with multi mono outs, then clicked each arrow on the AD mixer to assign each kit piece to its own track in Sonar.
This is where my confusion has come in. The drums obviously now sound, surprise, mono ... none of that full, stereo sound I get when inserting as as simple instrument. Do I now need to manually pan each mono track the same way they're panned in the AD mixer interface to achieve that same stereo sound I had when I inserted AD as a simple instrument, or am I missing something more simple to achieve that result? Making any changes to the drums in the AD mixer at this point doesn't have any effect. I'm also a bit confused as to having two mono tracks each for Overhead, Room and Master outputs. Do I just leave those as they were created in Sonar when I added AD, where each mono track's pan control is dead center?
I've also tried inserting the synth as multi-stereo outs, which then groups two kit pieces on one track, both panned hard left or right, e.g., kick and snare on one track, panned left and right respectively. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do with that setup to get that same sound I get when AD is added as a simple instrument.
In short, I'm just trying to achieve the same full stereo sound I get when adding AD as a simple instrument, but I want control over each kit piece separately within Sonar.
Thanks in advance for any tips. I'm sure this probably seems like basic level stuff to many of you. Hopefully it will to me soon, too. :)