I tried 4 different free screen and audio capture programs but none of them will capture the sound from Sonar. What are you using and how do you get it to capture sound from Sonar?
 
I am trying to make a video to show someone how to do something in Sonar but I would like the sound that Sonar is making to be part of the video.
 
I might also annotate it but I think that I can do in Sonar later?
 
Thanks

This may have something to do with the Windows driver settings on your audio.
You can set things up to give exclusive control or to share.
And the settings may be a bit different for WDM, WASAPI, ASIO, etc.
Try different settings on the Windows Sound Control panel and in Sonar audio preferences.
 
This is just a guess, I don't do any sort of video capture.

Thanks. I tried all sorts of things with Windows driver setup but nothing worked. At first I had Sonar take exclusive access but I changed it to share but it did not make a difference.
 
I am using the ASIO driver that came with my interface.
 
I looped a pair of outputs back to the mic inputs of my audio interface and that allowed it to capture sound but the sound was awful. I messed with the gain but the kick drums always sounded like I was hitting a hollow pipe. lol
 
I would have thought this would be easy. I am sure it is and I am just missing something obvious.

Thanks maximumpower...you are really nice to do this.
 
 

Tremo,
 
A bit spendy if you go with pro software, but you may be able to do the same with the free windows movee maker, or however they spell it. This is also a different approach, more like you would use to do filmed demos, not screen capture. This said, it is an extremely efficient and reliable way to get demos and tutorials out with pristine sound accompaniment.
 
I use Sony Vegas, but the principle is the same. Takes a few shots at it to develop the skills or intuition, but here's what I do. There are many YouTube totorials on movee maker that illustrate the principle.
 
Have Sonar recording the sound and a mic doing your narrative into Sonar recording voice, like it was a project. Synths or guitars on one channel, voice on another.
 
At the same time, have a camera rolling to film the presentation, camera with the cheap audio mic on.
 
After you have finished the recording, load the camera video into movee maker. Render the Sonar project as a wave and import the wave into movee maker.
 
Fine art here is to then match down to a couple samples, the camera audio and the Sonar audio. Once aligned to the precision of no echo, mute the camera audio, and only Sonar remains.
 
Professional results.
 
John
 
(edit)
 
Saw the parallel good advice from a previous thread. Like what Sycraft said...

Thank you. In this case, I want to record the screens while I am using Sonar (like what Cakewalk does for CakeTV videos). I can get the screen capture part working but not the audio.
 
Thanks

I am still curious about best ways to do this but I think I had a break through.
 
I routed outputs from my interface back into the mic inputs (I tried to use line but windows doesn't seem to know how to access them).
 
The first time it sounded awful but I think it was because I was mixing the input back into the output and I was getting phase issues.
 
This time I configured my interface so that it was not mixing the mic inputs with the output and it seemed to work OK.
 
Thanks

My 'special ingredient' is VoiceMeeter. See my video:
 

Very nice. So this lets you record the commentary as you are doing the demo (or whatever)?
 
 

Yes.
 
It's a full multi in/out Virtual Mixer / Virtual ASIO Audio device (and in the case of Banana EQ/Recorder). There is a small learning curve to get your head around it but hopefully the video will assist some. It's very versatile.
 
[UPDATE]: Here's a related post:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3163106