Please excuse the most basic question.
Mixed all the tracks plus an audio and everything sounds great. Convert midi file to wav and the sound is completely different.
Is this a sound card, soft synth prioblem or something else please.
I am working with the standard issue Sonar HS 7 and standard issue computers.
 
 
Thanks for any reply.
Cheers.

What softsynth did you use? How did you convert - by freezing, bouncing, exporting? 
Different in which way? Distorted, crackly, changed EQ balance? VST effects involved?
We can't say what might be wrong if we have no idea of how you tried to accomplish things.

Sorry for the lack of detail.
 
Exporting.

Insert / soft synth/Cakewalk TTS-1
Select each track and change output to Cakewalk TTS-1
File/Export Audio

No other selections made.

The main problem is that the sound of the instruments changes in that a honky tonk piano sounds more like a muted grand piano (or similar) and other instruments suffer the same loss of character and in my most technical sounding voice - the file loses most of the punch of the sound, as in it sounds most bland.

sorry, don't know the technical terms you would be looking for.


Cheers.

that sounds to me like you've changed the patches on the face of TTS-1 instead of changing them in the TRACK PROPERTIES.

go to the MIDI TRACK properties where you output to TTS-1 and change the bank and patch information THERE instead of on the face of TTS-1

Thanks for the suggestion, I will give that a try as soon as I can get back to it.
 
 
Cheers.